Global law firm Dentons continues its momentum by today launching its shared services strategy with the announcement that it will be opening a new business services center in Poland later this year.

Dentons Business Services EMEA (DBSE) is a joint initiative between the UK Middle East and Africa (UKMEA) and Europe regions of the Firm. The center will be based in Warsaw.

DBSE will be led by Director Piotr Macieja, who joins from global professional services provider TMF, where he headed their Service Delivery Coordination Center. It will supply business services for lawyers and professionals predominantly in the Firm's UKMEA and Europe regions across finance, business development and marketing, human resources and IT. By pooling together in one location certain tasks currently performed across numerous offices, Dentons will be able to leverage both regions' combined scale and resources more effectively, and create better service for its clients as a result of achieving greater efficiencies within the business.

"We are always looking for new ways to better serve our clients", said global chairman Joe Andrew. "After the Firm's rapid expansion of the past few years it is a logical step for us to leverage our scale and resources more effectively, while continuing to invest in harmonization so that we can achieve our objective of building the law firm of the future now."

"DBSE is yet another way that Dentons is working to increase the value it offers clients," said Global CEO Elliott Portnoy. "As we have grown our talent, legal experience and geographic reach, it is important for us to build on this momentum by delivering the benefits of a one firm experience to all of our lawyers and clients, while recognizing that as a polycentric firm we respect the legal traditions and cultures in all of our markets . By bringing together those service offerings that have the scope to be harmonized across the UKMEA and Europe regions, DBSE represents  a major step towards achieving this objective."

DBSE will officially launch later this year, and it is envisaged that certain tasks that are due to transition over to Warsaw will do so during the course of 2016/17. The transition of these tasks will commence shortly, and the Firm is in the process of consulting with impacted Business Services teams.

"Warsaw offers us a number of advantages over other locations, but the key appeal to us is its mature shared services market with experienced and available staff," said UKMEA CEO Jeremy Cohen.  "We are the largest law firm in Poland with a reputation for quality stretching back over 25 years, which will make the DBSE an attractive proposition to the multi-lingual business services workforce that Warsaw is renowned for."

Europe CEO Tomasz Dąbrowski adds, "Closer integration is one of our key strategic objectives as a firm and this is a vehicle for the UKMEA and Europe regions to achieve this and ultimately improve the way we do things. We are operating in a very competitive environment and our clients expect us to deliver services consistently and in the most cost effective way possible, while maintaining and enhancing the high performance culture that exists throughout the Firm."

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