Denton Wilde Sapte

Denton Wilde Sapte LLP

Headquarters	City of London
No. of offices	14
No. of attorneys	500+
Major practice areas	General practice
Revenue	£147.5 (2006)
Date founded	1 February 2000 (London)
Company type	English limited liability partnership
Website	www.dentonwildesapte.com

Denton Wilde Sapte LLP is a large law firm headquartered in the City of London at One Fleet Place, London EC4M 7WS, United Kingdom.

The firm employs over 500 lawyers and has a network of offices located in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The Middle East offices has 50 lawyers, making it the largest international practice in the region.

The firm was created in 2000 by a merger between City of London law firms Denton Hall and Wilde Sapte which created (at the time) the [UK|UK's]] 11th largest law firm. It was a co-founder of the international alliance of law firms, Denton International, which dissolved in 2003.

The firm specialises in the following areas:

• Energy, transport and infrastructure
• Financial institutions
• Real estate and retail
• Technology, media and telecoms

The firm suffered a torrid 2004 as it closed loss-making offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore. In the same year, its highly-regarded media and insurance litigation teams defected to UK rivals, (the former being the largest single such departure of lawyers for a UK law firm to date). However, the firm's turnover has since largely recovered.

In the financial year 2005-06, Denton Wilde Sapte was ranked 17th by turnover in The Lawyer's Top 100 list of UK law firms.

Its current Managing Partner is Howard Morris and its Chair is James Dallas.

External link

• Denton Wilde Sapte website

See also

• List of law firms
• List of largest UK law firms

References

The Lawyer UK 100 2005-6