{"id":9346,"date":"2026-09-01T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:34:55","slug":"official-communique-on-the-purported-establishment-of-dentons-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/en\/official-communique-on-the-purported-establishment-of-dentons-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"OFFICIAL COMMUNIQU\u00c9 ON THE PURPORTED ESTABLISHMENT OF DENTONS IN CAMEROON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdf-viewer-block-standard\" style=\"text-align:left\"><div class=\"uploaded-pdf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/OFFICIAL-COMMUNIQUE-DENTONS-ENG.pdf\" data-width=\"\" data-height=\"\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Cameroon Bar Association has been alerted by colleagues, the<br \/>\nbusiness community and stakeholders to communications widely circulated on professional<br \/>\nsocial networks, notably LinkedIn, on the specialist platform Africa Legal, and on the official<br \/>\nwebsite of Dentons (www.dentons.com), alleging they established presence in Douala,<br \/>\nCameroon, of Dentons, through a partnership with the local law firm, Kouengoua Minou<br \/>\nNkongho (hereinafter &#8220;SCP KMN&#8221;), renamed SCP Dentons KMN.<br \/>\nThis is not an isolated case. It forms part of a broader trend observed over recent years,<br \/>\nwhereby &#8220;global&#8221; or &#8220;international&#8221; law firms seek to claim a formal local presence in<br \/>\nCameroon through partnership or referral agreements with domestic firms. The scale of the<br \/>\nmost recent communications, emanating directly from Dentons, the world&#8217;s largest law firm<br \/>\nby number of countries, makes public clarification indispensable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9348,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions\/9348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barreaucameroun.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}