Dentons has strengthened its Real Estate Group across Europe with the addition of three new partners, four counsel and six associates in the first quarter of 2014. Dentons’ recent hires include Partner Alexandre Poupard from Allen & Overy, based in Paris and Partner Oren Harpaz and Counsel Nir Assido from prominent Tel Aviv law firm Yehuda Raveh & Co. In addition, Philipp Windemuth, previously with Orrick, joined the group together with two counsel, Olga Sandler (working out of the New York office) and Dr. Joachim Homeister. Philipp will divide his time between Berlin and Moscow. The Frankfurt real estate practice also welcomed the arrival of Counsel Sabine Wieduwilt from Orrick.

In addition to the new partner and counsel arrivals, six real estate associates joined the European Real Estate Group in the Dentons London, Madrid, Berlin, Prague and St. Petersburg offices.

Eric Rosedale and Paweł Dębowski, Co-Chairs of Dentons’ European Real Estate Group remarked: "The recent additions of 12 new European real estate specialists to our team signify our commitment to growing our talent pool in the midst of a very positive real estate cycle in virtually all of our European markets."

Evan Lazar, who co-chairs the Global Real Estate Group with Eric Rosedale, added that "these additions reflect our longstanding strategy of growing our Western European capacity while maintaining our market leading position in Central and Eastern Europe."

With more than 600 real estate specialists working out of 79 cities around the world, Dentons has one of the largest real estate teams amongst all international law firms.