"The transaction confirms OPF Partners' position as a leading Luxembourg firm, rated by Chambers and The Legal 500 for banking and finance, corporate, investment funds, tax, real estate and dispute resolution. It recognizes many years of hard work focusing on delivering top quality legal advice and assistance to our clients. At OPF Partners we are all very proud to become part of Dentons and we are very excited at the prospect of joining the Firm's 7,300 lawyers and helping Dentons further develop its global offering.”

OPF Partners' 34 lawyers, including nine partners, will join Dentons Europe LLP on January 1, 2016.
In 2015, Dentons has entered or expanded in six of the world's leading financial centers, and this combination means that the Firm now has a presence in the following cities out of the 25 top financial centers in the world: London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Chicago, Boston, Frankfurt, Sydney, Dubai, Montreal, Vancouver, Shanghai, Doha and Shenzhen.

"In our 10th transformative initiative in 2015, Dentons has done more for its clients this year than any global firm,” said Dentons Global Chairman, Joe Andrew.  “By listening to our clients and planning our strategy around their business goals, we are creating the law firm of the future—one that anticipates client needs and delivers the specific practice expertise and business experience required, in communities around the world."

Global Chief Executive Officer Elliott Portnoy added, "OPF Partners is recognized as one of Luxembourg's leading firms and its lawyers will be able to offer our clients elite counsel in this important European market, consistent with our polycentric approach of offering the best legal talent in communities around the world. We are very pleased to welcome this high quality team to the Firm."

Evan Lazar, Chairman of the Europe Board said, "Luxembourg plays a key role in the global and European investment fund and private equity sector, which is one of our core areas of focus and strategy. We are delighted to welcome our new colleagues from OPF Partners, with whom we have been working jointly for clients over recent years, and who share our commitment to excellence and building a leading pan-European practice.”

"We have already achieved a lot this year with our Milan launch, the hire of a substantial team in Hungary and the significant growth of our German practice with nine new partner appointments," said Chief Executive Officer for Europe Tomasz D?browski. "This transaction implements another top priority under our strategic plan for Europe which we will continue to focus on in 2016 and the coming years."

The news builds on Dentons' recent growth in Europe with the launch of a Milan office last month; the hire of 50 lawyers in Budapest earlier this year; and significant lateral partner hires in Germany, Russia and France. It also follows transformative combinations in China and the United States; the recent announcement of combinations with Australia's Gadens and Singapore's Rodyk; the Firm's February establishment of its Johannesburg office in Africa, where it is the first global law firm to achieve Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment status; and the creation of its innovation platform, NextLaw Labs, which is focused on developing, deploying, and investing in new technologies and processes to transform the practice of law around the world.