Dentons has launched its combination with Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena, a leader in the Argentine legal market, positioning Dentons as the largest global law firm in the country. In Argentina, the office will be branded as Dentons Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena. Dentons now has more offices in all of Latin America and the Caribbean than any other law firm, making it the first truly Pan-Latin American and the Caribbean law firm.

“Dentons’ launch in Argentina enables us to meet client needs in another priority market for our clients,” said Elliott Portnoy, Global CEO of Dentons. “We can now connect our clients to our leading talent at Dentons Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena as well to our 19,000+ people in 183 locations and 75 countries around the globe.”

“Dentons’ polycentric strategy has seen the Firm scale its presence to 24 countries across the Latin America and the Caribbean region,” said Joe Andrew, Global Chairman of Dentons. “Despite the current challenges created by Covid-19, Dentons continues to execute its strategy to scale the firm through virtual combinations with leading law firms like Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena and is now present in virtually all of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

“Since entering the region in 2016, Dentons has combined with elite firms across Latin America and the Caribbean,” said Jorge Alers, Latin America and the Caribbean Region CEO of Dentons. “Argentina has a number of exceptional legal service providers, but Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena stood out for its leadership and innovative and forward-looking thinking. This new launch means we can now connect clients to market-leading talent in Argentina and the whole of the Americas.”

Less than 15 years since its foundation, Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena became a highly recognized leader in practice areas such as Corporate and M&A, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Banking and Finance, Compliance and Anticorruption, Government Relations, Infrastructure, Labor Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Pharmaceuticals and Tax.

“We are very proud and terribly excited with this distinction. As part of Dentons, our Buenos Aires office will now have at hand’s reach all of the knowledge, talent, best practices and state-of-the-art technology to better support our clients, allowing them to do business throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and, quite literally, in any other place of the world,” said Michael R. Rattagan, who in 2005 co-founded Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena.

So far in 2020, Dentons has launched Dentons Bingham Greenebaum and Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, the first step in forming a truly national law firm in the United States as part of Dentons’ “Project Golden Spike,” Dentons Kensington Swan in New Zealand, Dentons Lee in South Korea and Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga in Uruguay, and opened an office in St. Lucia.