Total Recall? The milk scandal and food liability insurance in China
Carrie Yang and Amanda Li of Clyde & Co contemplate how the insurance market will change in China once the government implements strict liability for food safety.
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Financial dispute resolution in Hong Kong: ‘FDR’ – nothing to fear?
David Smyth and David Luk of Smyth & Co (in association with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP), review Hong Kong’s new Financial Dispute Resolution Scheme and highlight some pertinent issues that may arise for prospective claimants, financial institutions and their in-house lawyers.
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Out with the old, in with the new: the Csrc’s drive to boost foreign investment funds in China
David Livdahl, Jenny Sheng and Chunbin Xu of Paul Hastings take us through the old requirements imposed on qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII’s) and enlighten us as to how the new measures will have the effect of relaxing protocols for foreign investors.
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Recent changes to Public Private Partnership law in Indonesia
Chris Naziris of MKK Law Indonesia examines Public Private Partnerships as an alternative means by which development of infrastructure can be managed and promoted. Recent changes to the legislation in Indonesia include financial incentives designed to boost participation in the scheme.
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Two sides to every ruling?
Alec Emmerson and Keith Hutchison of Clyde & Co LLP share with us some of
the implications and effects of the recent ruling on the recognition and
enforcement of foreign awards in Dubai. Here, they highlight the importance of
the decision and indicate that whilst an element of uncertainty still remains,
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The inside track on China related going-private transactions
Greg Puff and David Lee of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP explain the nuts and bolts of China related going private transactions.
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Deals of the Year 2012
In our landmark ASIAN MENA-COUNSEL Deals of the Year report, we are delighted to bring you a comprehensive overview of our winners from 2012. A varied constellation of deals made it onto our shortlist this year and these consisted of some heavy-hitting M&A transactions, impressive energy projects, titanic IPO’s and various Islamic finance deals.
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Tomorrow’s Lawyers – The shifting role of in-house lawyers
The legal profession that Professor Richard Susskind OBE has been observing since 1981 is ‘on the brink of fundamental change’. He predicts that the practice of commercial law in particular, will be almost unrecognisable in 15 years from what it is today. Inevitably, in-house counsel teams are not immune. But with change comes opportunity …
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A labour of love
As legal recruiter Hughes-Castell celebrates 25 years in the business, we speak to managing director Doreen Jaeger-Soong about how the industry has evolved and her recent buyback of the operation from Dutch firm Randstad
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Asian-Counsel Deals of the Year 2009
Although deal-making activity largely ground to a halt in the first bleak months following the onset of the financial crisis, commentators hoped that the Asia Pacific region would emerge strongly and swiftly from the global economy’s recession. They were not disappointed, with the region putting on a convincing performance in the second half of the year to illustrate that its capacity for notable deals was back on track. Take a look to see which deals were awarded plaudits for being the best in 2009.
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