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Source: advocatie.nl
BAKER MCKENZIE INTEGRATING 8 OFFICES INCLUDING AMSTERDAM INTO SINGLE PROFIT POOL
AKD NAMED ‘BENELUX
Baker McKenzie has announced the financial consolidation of eight of the global law firm’s
LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR’
offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The eight offices, which include Baker McKenzie
AKD has been named ‘Benelux
Amsterdam, will be integrated into a single profit pool and share costs. The offices in Germany
Law Firm of the Year 2018’ by UK
and France - Baker McKenzie’s primary European markets - will remain separate for now.
publication The Lawyer, marking the
Under the new organisational structure, the firm will employ approximately 1,000 lawyers,
second time it has won this award.
including 250 partners.
The last four years have seen the Benelux title shuttle smoothly back and forth between two Dutch firms,
DENTONS EXPANDS FURTHER, ESTABLISHING
with AKD previously winning in 2016
7 FIRMS IN AFRICA, ASIA AND THE CARIBBEAN
and Amsterdam-based Rutgers &
After the Boekel merger, which brought it to the Netherlands in April 2017, Dentons’ appetite
Posch taking the title in 2015 and
for growth seems unabated. In a single move, the world’s largest law firm is set to combine
2017. In its report, the jury of The
its forces with seven firms based in East Africa, the Caribbean region and Southeast Asia,
Lawyer European Awards praised
adding around 200 lawyers to the army of over 8,000 fee earners in the Dentons’ empire,
AKD as before in 2016, saying the
now set to span 73 countries. Dentons expects the seven new combinations to launch in the
firm has again proved itself as a ‘full-
course of this year.
service Benelux operation’.
Photography Architectenbureau cepezed | Léon van Woerkom
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