Two senior partners at Dentons have broken away to form their own arbitration firm in Paris, joining a recent trend toward Big Law veterans establishing dispute resolution boutiques in the French capital.

Honlet Legum Arbitration opened for business this week, with two partners—Jean-Christophe Honlet, former head of international arbitration at Dentons, and Barton Legum, former co-chair of litigation and dispute resolution at the firm.