A matter of interpretation … decisions on arbitration clauses in the UAE

As well as noting that Kodak “invented but failed to commercialise” digital photography, In-House Community Thought Leader Kenny Tung, once Kodak’s Greater China General Counsel, gives an account of the fall of the empire whose brand was once valued at US$11.8 billion, and makes comparisons between this and the current state of the legal industry, suggesting that it too risks becoming a shadow of its former self.

This Special Report on Anti-trust & Competition law includes Fasken Martineau DuMoulin’s overview of the merger control regime under Canada’s Competition Act and the foreign investment review regime under the Investment Canada Act in their article Merger control and foreign investment review in Canada, Anjie Law Firm’s article entitled What in-house counsel should know about China’s anti-monopoly law in the intellectual property sector, which gives history and case studies of China’s anti-trust laws in relation to IP and presents the reader with China’s anti-monopoly law’s ‘big question’ and CCI rulings in the e-commerce sector: paving the pathway for a virtual marketplace – Phoenix Legal’s discussion on the anti-trust aspects of online portals as ask whether this innovation has increased competition by generating more businesses or made it so that only the big boys can compete.

Law firm Clyde & Co recently published its second Middle East Deal Study. Based on the firm’s analysis of data from M&A and JV transactions on which they worked in the region over the last 18 …

It seems everyone’s building a bridge, villa, apartment complex, office tower or shopping mall in China these days and with the economy experiencing double digit growth there are great expectations for the sector. Melinda Finch considers whether they will be met.

Our Private Equity Special Report features contributions from Davis Polk on ‘Private investment in public equity (PIPE): what you need to know to invest in Hong Kong and US PIPE transactions’, and from Zhong Lun Law Firm, whose senior partners wrote about ‘The challenges of private capital’.

China’s foreign investment management regime has become more liberal and flexible, writes Mengyun Qiu of AllBright …