Dentons Lee is pleased to announce that Chief Managing Attorney Heejun Choi, Foreign Senior Attorney Kurt Gerstner and Foreign Senior Attorney John Jungkyum Kim have once again been recognized in Asia Business Law Journal’s “Korea’s Top 100 Lawyers (The A-List 2025).”

Dentons Lee announced that the 11th International Society of Construction Law Conference, organized by SCL Korea—which is chaired by Foreign Attorney Ki-Jeung Park of Dentons Lee—concluded successfully in Seoul.

Dentons has advised the joint global coordinators and the joint bookrunners on the issue by Achmea B.V. of €300 million Perpetual Restricted Tier 1 Temporary Write-Down Securities and tender offer to the holders of its €250 million 2.500% Subordinated Notes due 2039 and €750 million 5.625% Subordinated Notes due 2044.

Dentons has been recognised at the inaugural Law Middle East Awards 2025, winning Arbitration Team of the Year and receiving Highly Commended distinctions in both the Finance Team of the Year and Litigation Team of the Year categories.

Australia: With effect from 20 September 2025, serious vilification is a criminal offence in Victoria, carrying penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment. The reforms criminalise serious vilification and extend to vilification on the basis of race, religious belief or activity, disability, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation or sex characteristics, and a personal association with anyone who has any of these attributes. Employers may be liable if unlawful conduct is found to have occurred in their workplace with officers being held personally liable if they permit or are complicit in that conduct.