M&A booster – New Companies Act has it all easy and clean – Rikita Ganju and Pooja Khanna of Phoenix Legal write.

Canvassing the views and concerns of in-house counsel along the New Silk Road, the sixth annual Representing Corporate Asia & Middle East Survey report shines a light on the issues that are of concern to in-house counsel across the region today, their expectations for the coming year and the factors which they say tip the scales when selecting external counsel. And, based entirely on votes from participating in-house counsel, we also announce our ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL In-House Community Firms of the Year for 2012.

Based solely on the votes of members of our In-House Community, we are pleased to present the winners of our External Counsel of the Year accolade. In-House counsel from around the region were asked, as part of ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL’s annual Representing Corporate Asia and Middle East Survey 2013, to name who they believed to be the outstanding external counsel in their jurisdiction, and why. Broken down by jurisdiction, below you will find a roll-call of over 60 private practitioners who won the particular acclaim of our In-House Community together with client testimonials. External counsel who received an overwhelming number of votes and plaudits, have been singled out as In-House Community External Counsel of Distinction. Congratulations to all those recognised below.

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