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Dentons’ Los Angeles office offers the high-quality, innovative legal services and strategic advice required for your success. Our team brings to every transaction and dispute a track record of excellent outcomes, achieved with professionalism and delivered with a focused personal attention. Our mission is to develop sophisticated and creative solutions for your most toughest legal and business challenges.

Our diverse, multidisciplinary team of lawyers and non-legal professionals employs an integrated approach to help you achieve your goals as well as anticipate, prevent and mitigate risks. The office covers a wide range of practice areas and draws from a deep well of experience serving clients across multiple industries.

Our expertise ranges from M&A and equity/debt financing transactions to restructuring and insolvency, including representing clients in and out of court in connection with underperforming, distressed, workout, receivership, insolvency and bankruptcy situations involving strategic, operational and/or financial issues. We represent a wide range of clients, from large multinational companies to family businesses to private individuals, and have significant experience in litigation and dispute resolution, health care law, commercial litigation, insurance defense, private client services, false advertising, digital accessibility, finance, environmental compliance and regulation, employment law, entertainment law, public policy, and general corporate counseling, including taxation, franchise and SEC matters.

We are able to address all of your legal needs, throughout California and beyond, with our multidisciplinary capabilities; our ready access to colleagues in Dentons’ Silicon Valley, San Francisco/Oakland, Orange County and San Diego offices; and our ability to leverage Dentons’ expansive US national and unmatched global reach.

Whether you are a publicly held corporation or are starting a new business venture, a major financial institution or a not-for-profit organization, the team of lawyers and professionals in our Los Angeles office promise to never stop seeking new, innovative ways to serve you.

Dentons takes seriously our commitment to the communities in which we live and work—and our pro bono work reflects our entrepreneurial approach to solving problems in a complex world.

Dentons' Los Angeles office is active in the community and participates in the American Bar Association Pro Bono Challenge. Our team is involved in a wide range of professional, community service and civic organizations, from the local Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles Economic Development Counsel to international organizations that share a strong commitment to the surrounding city. We are also at the forefront of efforts to address environmental concerns.

Community involvement and progressive advocacy is a priority for the Los Angeles office. Some of our actions include:

Our experienced Los Angeles lawyers and professionals have been recognized by leading legal organizations, directories and publications. Our team’s notable awards include:

Law360 has named counsel Stephanie Abrutyn to its editorial advisory board for Media & Entertainment and has named counsel Breann Nuʻuhiwa and associate Mitchell Forbes to its editorial advisory board for Native American Law. Law360’s editorial advisory boards draw on the expertise and the networks of its contributors to improve the publication’s coverage.

Breann Nuʻuhiwa has joined the Firm’s esteemed Native American Law and Policy practice as counsel. Resident in the Los Angeles office, Nuʻuhiwa is a seasoned legal professional with more than two decades of experience in both private practice and government service.

The Daily Journal honored Dentons partner Nick Pujji as a Top Labor and Employment Lawyer for 2023.

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Signed into law by California Governor Newsom on October 7, 2023, AB 1305 is known as the “Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Business Regulation Act.”

United States: California has just enacted two climate-related reporting statutes.

As businesses continue to prepare for the enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on July 1 and digest the recently released California Attorney General regulations, a new challenge has appeared on the horizon - the California Secretary of State announced on June 25, 2020 that the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), an initiative that would replace and expand the CCPA, has qualified for the November 2020 ballot. 

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Pride Month Q&A with Richard Majczinger

The Los Angeles Business Journal profiled partner Tania Moyron in its 2023 Leaders of Influence: Minority Attorneys issue. Moyron, who is well-known by clients for her skill and finesse in both out-of-court and in-court restructurings, was selected as one of the city’s most influential minorities in the field of law.

A team of Dentons lawyers represented Bright Green Corp. in its public offering, collaborating with the client to use a somewhat non-traditional approach.

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