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Dentons Global Advisors cooperates with the Washington-based strategy company Albright Stonebridge Group

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Dentons, together with the Albright Stonebridge Group, founded an independent consulting company to expand its range of services beyond traditional legal advice.

Dentons Global Advisors offers its clients strategic advice and support on non-legal issues relating to trade, reputation, finance, regulation and governance, such as diplomacy, capital market and transaction advice, crisis management, corporate positioning and geopolitical risk advice. The new group consists of founding member Albright Stonebridge and a team of seasoned industry leaders including CEO Ed Reilly, who joined Dentons from FTI Consulting in 2019.

Joe Andrew, Dentons global chairman and board member of the new advisory group, said, “In partnership with Dentons Global Advisors, we intend to expand our elite advisory offering with the geographic reach that enables us to meet all of our client needs … they are encouraged to be bigger and address broader issues than ever and require coordinated advisory services to achieve all of their goals. “

Washington DC-based business strategy firm Albright Stonebridge was founded in 2009 through a merger of two consulting firms, The Albright Group and Stonebridge International. The firm is chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was under Bill Clinton’s administration.

Albright said, “Over the past 20 years we have built unprecedented strategic advisory capacity and a reputation for solving the toughest problems while making positive impacts around the world. We are pleased to have found partners who share our vision and have additional expertise. “

While Dentons Global Advisors will operate independently from Dentons and work with other consulting firms, law firms and professional service providers, it will have strong ties to the broader Dentons business.

Elliott Portnoy, Global CEO of Dentons, said, “The world’s leading companies need holistic, integrated, and multidimensional solutions that reflect their situations. We are confident that executive teams and board members will immediately see the unique value of partnering with a consultancy that works hand in hand with the world’s largest law firm, especially when it comes to overseeing their most sensitive and confidential matters such as transactions, crises, investigations or litigation. “

Last February, Washington, DC-based law firm Crowell & Moring announced that it had opened an office in Singapore with the kind permission of its international policy and regulatory consultancy, C&M International. The office – the consulting firm’s second in Asia and the first in the Asia Pacific region – will be led by former White House advisor Clark Jennings, who was named Managing Director Asia for C&M in January.