Denton Wilde SapteThe news two weeks ago that Denton Wilde Sapte has put on hold the integration of its European alliance, is likely to have gone down like a lead balloon in the firm’s corporate department.

While an increased focus on the volatile Asian and emerging markets will provide a further boost to the firm’s much vaunted projects practice, it is doing little to help Dentons’ current European M&A profile, which undoubtedly stuttered during Q3.