Headquarters:
Tower 2/727 Collins St, Docklands, Vic 3008
Year founded:
2016
Number of employees:
698
Phone:
+61 3 9258 3555
Email:
info@maddocks.com.au
Website:
dentons.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/dentons
“We put our customers at the centre of our business, responding to brokers in a proactive and timely manner and working with the customer to understand their unique risk profile and tailor appropriate solutions”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Amber Warren
Australia Chair and Australasia Region CEO
Maureen Migliazzo
Chief Operating Officer
Nicholas Linke
Board Member and Partner
Leadership
Amber Warren is Australia' chair and Australasia region CEO at Dentons and serves on both the Australian and global boards. A passionate leader with deep expertise in the business of law, she has previously been a partner in the firm’s litigation, banking and finance and financial services regulatory advisory practices. Warren advises major Australian banks, foreign banks, lenders and financial services businesses across the full financial services lifecycle. Her expertise includes advertising and marketing compliance, design and distribution obligations, anti-hawking regulations and superannuation. She is known for delivering commercially focused advice and strategic leadership.
Australia Chair and Australasia Region CEO
Amber Warren
Maureen Migliazzo is COO for Dentons’ Australasia region, bringing more than 25 years of experience leading global professional services firms. A business transformation specialist, she drives strategic and operational excellence across finance, technology, marketing, talent, risk and compliance and diversity and inclusion. Migliazzo has led major transformation initiatives that have strengthened client relationships, improved performance and supported sustainable growth. Passionate about innovation, she is particularly interested in AI and emerging technologies transforming professional services. A collaborative leader, she is committed to ethical leadership, mentoring future professionals and fostering inclusive workplaces.
Chief Operating Officer
Maureen Migliazzo
Nicholas Linke is a member of the Dentons Australia Board and practice group leader of the firm’s Employment and Safety practice. With more than 25 years of litigation experience, he advises clients on employment, workplace safety and insurance law, with particular expertise in life insurance. Linke regularly represents clients before the Fair Work Commission and courts across Australia, as well as workplace and human rights tribunals. He also advises on workplace safety prosecutions, coronial inquiries and enforceable undertakings. His extensive experience includes representing clients in complex and high-profile life insurance disputes.
Board Member and Partner
Nicholas Linke
Anthony Walsh
Board Member and Partner
Anthony Walsh is a member of the Dentons Australia Board and a partner in the banking and finance group. He advises domestic and international lenders on a broad range of financing matters, drawing on experience gained in London, Sydney, and through an in-house role with Société Générale. Walsh has particular expertise in asset-based lending, trade finance, real estate finance and restructuring. He also advises clients across the finance, agriculture, corporate trust, automotive, construction and commercial leasing sectors. He played a key role in the firm’s work relating to Australia's Personal Property Securities Act 2009.
Board Member and Partner
Anthony Walsh
David McIntosh
Board Member and Partner
David McIntosh is a member of the Dentons Australia Board and advises banks, financial institutions, insolvency practitioners and corporate clients on restructuring and insolvency matters. His expertise spans corporate and debt restructuring, cross-border insolvency, loan and security structuring, recovery and enforcement. Having practised both in Australia and overseas, including six years in London, McIntosh brings a practical, commercial perspective to complex matters. He is a fellow of INSOL International, reflecting his specialist expertise in international insolvency, and is recognised for delivering tailored advice that meets clients’ evolving commercial needs.
Board Member and Partner
David McIntosh
Dentons set out to make pay equity a measurable outcome rather than an aspiration and is the first large law firm in Australia to obtain a 0% median gender pay gap. It is the kind of concrete result that anchors the firm’s standing as a 5-Star Employer of Choice, and it sits alongside a broader run of external recognition, including a place at WORK180’s Top 101 Workplaces for Women in 2026.
Those achievements reflect a culture the firm describes as being built on inclusion, collaboration, innovation and care, guided by a simple philosophy: to be human first and lawyers second. As the self-described world’s largest global law firm, Dentons pairs global scale with a local culture centred on flexibility, trust and belonging, an approach it says translates directly into the quality of service that its clients receive.
Equity is reinforced by the practical policies employees encounter day to day. Dentons points to a market-leading bonus leave program, flexible working arrangements, generous parental leave, floating public holidays and structured wellbeing initiatives as the measures that have shifted engagement and retention. Transparent communication and visible leadership underpin the experience, with leaders actively embedding culture and strategy across the business; over the past year, the firm counts 87% of its leaders as having spoken at internal events.
Professional development is treated with equal rigour. Dentons has established a career-stage academy model that supports people from graduate level through to partnership, spanning its Graduate Development Program, Associate Development Program, Senior Associate Development Program and Pathway to Partnership. These are complemented by mentoring, coaching, international opportunities and AI-focused capability building, and the firm reports recommendation rates of up to 100% across several development streams. Recruitment follows the same logic, with refreshed careers and graduate websites, gender-neutral job advertisements, strengthened university engagement and a digital referral platform designed to bring in talent that aligns with the firm’s values.
The firm’s commitment to inclusion is deliberately woven into everyday business rather than run as a standalone initiative. By embedding inclusive conversations into regular business activities, leadership discussions and firmwide events, Dentons lifted attendance at inclusion-focused events from around 20% to between 70% and 90%, with most leaders taking an active role. Inclusion is experienced through daily interactions, not a policy sitting on a shelf.
Much of this is now organised around the firm’s Australia and PNG 2025–2030 strategy, which provides a roadmap for growth, innovation and client service. Guided by that framework, Dentons intends to expand its nationally coordinated Clerkship Program, develop future leaders through its academy model, build further capability in AI and emerging technologies, and strengthen career pathways across both legal and business services teams. The through-line is consistency: a firm applying the same discipline to its people that it brings to its legal work and treating an exceptional employee experience as the foundation for everything else.
“We continue to see cyber as a key opportunity and will be further developing customer-centric solutions across various geographies and segments in line with our growth aspirations”
Erica Kofie, QBE
Craig Chapman
Board Member and Partner
Louise Massey
Board Member and Partner
Joy Atacador
Board Member and Partner
Ben Carter
Human Resources Director
Craig Chapman is a member of the Dentons Australia Board and a partner in the banking and finance team in Brisbane. With more than 30 years of experience, he advises banks, financial institutions and corporate clients on financial services regulation, syndicated and bilateral lending, project finance, debt capital markets and corporate finance. His previous experience as group general counsel at an Australian regional bank strengthens his commercial approach. Chapman has acted for leading Australian and international banks across infrastructure, mining, transport, property, agribusiness, healthcare, energy and other major industries.
Board Member and Partner
Craig Chapman
Louise Massey is a member of the Dentons Australia Board, global co-chair of Dentons’ litigation practice and a partner in the firm’s Sydney disputes and risk advisory group. With more than 30 years of experience, she advises clients on insurance, financial regulatory matters, and complex commercial disputes across a range of industries. Massey also co-leads Dentons’ international financial markets disputes practice, providing clients with global insights and strategic advice. Recognised as a leading dispute resolution lawyer, she regularly represents major banks, financial institutions, government agencies and corporations, delivering commercially focused strategies through litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Board Member and Partner
Louise Massey
Joy Atacador leads Dentons Australia’s intellectual property and technology practice and the firm’s global consumer products and services sector while also serving on the Dentons Australia board. A registered trade marks attorney, she advises clients on intellectual property litigation, dispute resolution, trade marks, patents, copyright, designs, confidential information and brand protection. Atacador has represented Australian and international organisations in significant IP disputes before the Federal Court of Australia and IP Australia. She is consistently recognised by leading legal directories, including Best Lawyers, Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS, IAM Patent 1000 and WTR 1000.
Board Member and Partner
Joy Atacador
Ben Carter is human resources director at Dentons, where he partners with leaders across the business to strengthen performance, develop talent and create an exceptional employee experience. With more than 20 years of experience in human resources, recruitment and talent management, he has held senior leadership roles across leading professional services organisations. Recognised in HRD’s Global 100 HR Leaders for 2025, Carter is known for his strategic leadership in people and culture, diversity and inclusion and organisational development. He is passionate about building high-performing, inclusive workplaces where people can thrive and businesses can succeed.
Human Resources Director
Ben Carter
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