One of Denton Wilde Sapte’s senior project finance partners, Howard Barrie, is relocating to Paris from the UK, giving the firm its first English law capability in the French capital.

Barrie, who heads Dentons’ Africa team, is moving to Paris to help develop the firm’s Africa practice. He will also build the firm’s international banking practice, which is currently headed in France by office managing partner Sena Agbayissah.