Firm appoints senior partner to UK financial disputes & contentious regulatory practice
Dentons has announced the hire of financial disputes partner Daren Allen, who is to join the firm from Berwin Leighton Paisner where he currently heads the corporate crime and investigations team.
A senior practitioner, Daren has experience acting for financial institutions and large corporations in relation to complex internal investigations, regulatory investigations, litigation and enforcement proceedings. He also advises on fraud, bribery and corruption and money laundering.
Jeremy Cohen, Dentons' CEO for the UK, Middle East and Africa, comments: "Daren's arrival greatly strengthens our financial disputes and contentious regulatory practice, which is a growing and strategically important part of the UK business. Our involvement in a number of high profile cases has enhanced the firm's reputation for banking litigation, and it is important for us to capitalise on this as well as the anticipated rise in regulatory disputes over the next few years. I am very pleased to welcome him to the firm."
UK head of disputes, Liz Tout, adds: "The market for financial litigation and contentious regulatory advice is becoming increasingly competitive, and Daren's hire builds on the progress we have made since the arrival of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin's 11-partner banking and finance litigation team earlier this year. Bringing in such a heavyweight partner enhances our ability to advise at the premium end of the market and we are now able to deliver to clients a capability that few of our competitors can match."
