Dentons, an ever-expanding global legal giant that recently announced mergers in the U.S. and China, is now adding a 30-strong team from White & Case in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. The move is essentially another merger, as Dentons will absorb the entire local affiliate of White & Case on May 3.
Tomas Dabrowski, CEO of Dentons’ European arm and a former co-chair of the corporate practice at legacy firm Salans, which combined with Dentons and a Canadian firm in 2013, tells The Am Law Daily that his firm has been looking for over a year to expand its operations in Budapest, where it has roughly a dozen lawyers. That number—just like Dentons’ global attorney head count following proposed unions with China’s Dacheng and Am Law 100 firm McKenna Long & Aldridge—is poised to surge.
