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South Korea Global Standards Local Execution
Q&A

Q&A: Korea’s global standards align with local execution

IHCF vice president SongYi Son discusses the merits and possible obstacles for doing business in South Korea
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Indonesia Criminal Code Reform Corporate Liability
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Cracking the bad eggs

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Force Majeure Supply Disruption
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Strait jacket

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz reveal fragility of contracts; experts urge rewriting force majeure clauses to safeguard trade supply
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M&A A new way
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M&A: A new way

As M&A activities climb across the region, rising regulatory complexity and shifting market dynamics are redefining strategy, execution and the evolving role of general counsel.
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Q&A

Pitching law

Kohei Miyadai is breaking new ground in Japan as the first lawyer who was also a professional baseball player.
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Asia Online Gambling Regulation Enforcement
Intelligence report

The house loses

As Asian regulators tighten controls on online gambling, cross-border networks and advancing technologies remain one step ahead, testing the limits of regulation
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Media industry confronting AI legal risks
Cover story

Scraping by with AI

AI scraping for information is forcing publishing companies to rethink strategies for protecting their intellectual property
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Arlene Lapuz-Ureta APCCA Secretary-General Leadership
Q&A

A unifying force

Arlene Lapuz-Ureta leaves a lasting legacy of unity after leading the Asia Pacific Corporate Counsel Alliance (APCCA) through a pandemic and regional expansion
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Asia Companies Navigate US Tariff Uncertainty
Cover story

Tariff triage

Facing unpredictable tariffs, compliance crackdowns and rising trade tensions, companies in Asia are rethinking contracts, manufacturing and supply chains
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Q&A

One of a kind

A look at how PSE general counsel Veronica Del Rosario is driving transformation and growth at the Philippine Stock Exchange
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Jason Brown Appointed ACC Presidentvideo
Intelligence report

Who if not you?

New ACC president and CEO Jason Brown outlines his vision to deepen engagement with in-house counsel across Asia
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Danantara sovereign wealth fund governance
Cover story

Danantara dream

Bono Adji has taken on the challenge of building the legal foundations of Danantara, Indonesia’s newest sovereign wealth fund
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Intelligence report

Time for a refit?

Technology and tighter budgets are reshaping how in-house counsel work with external law firms, shifting routine tasks inside while demanding greater strategic value from advisers.
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Data Centre Investment Asia
Features

Data centres: The new boom

Investors and their legal advisers are switched on to the most sought after real estate game in Asia
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Everything possible-
Q&A

Everything possible

The first female president of the Indonesian Corporate Counsel Association reflects on her journey
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Vietnam's administrative and judicial reform
Intelligence report

The restructure

Vietnam has embarked on a massive reform of its bureaucracy, but what will the changes mean for businesses?
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Elisabeth Stewart Bradley, INTA president 2025
Cover story

New focus on global IP leadership

2025 INTA president Elisabeth Stewart Bradley shares why it is important to view IP issues through different perspectives.
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Q&A

The red bee’s jolly good GC

As the legal guardian of the Philippines' fast-food giant Jollibee Group, global legal chief Valerie Feria Amante recounts her 18 year-plus journey with Jollibee witnessing the accelerating growth of this household name and her own legal career.
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Asia Legal Challenges
Cover story

Trouble ahead

From Trump’s global tariff war to jurisdictional legal hurdles, uncertainty abounds for Asia in 2025.
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Balancing K-AI
Asia-specific

Balancing K-AI

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2024--keep-up-cover
Cover story

2024: Keep up!

2024 reshaped Asia’s corporate landscape with ESG, tech innovation, and stricter regulations
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Intelligence report

A mixed blessing

Second article of a two-part series on legaltech explores how AI is generating both new gains and fresh doubt
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geopolitical risk strategies in Asia
Cover story

Risky business

Geopolitical tensions in Asia are driving lawyers to adopt new risk management strategies
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Legaltech-take-off-cover
Intelligence report

Legaltech take-off?

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A capital idea
Cover story

A capital idea

Where do Indonesia’s law firms stand on a future move to their unfinished new capital city?
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Cover story

Turning the tide

Why this year’s Indonesian election was different
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asia-mergers-and-acquisitions
Cover story

Appetite for M&A

Despite headwinds that caused an M&A downturn in Asia, experts say things are taking a turn for the better
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Asia-specific

Roadmap for a superhighway

How can India plug the legal and regulatory gaps that are holding back the nation’s massive infrastructure sector?
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Asia Business Law Journal

Japan outbound investment guide

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Asia’s legal sector in 2024
In focus

2024: Spheres of influence

A slowing China, the rise in AI and global geopolitics all make for an interesting 2024 for Asia’s legal markets
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In focus

Shuffling the deck

Bleak prospects have dealt a challenging hand of enhanced regulations to players in China’s private equity market
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Asia-specific

Pillar two: setting the web

Pillar two of a global tax initiative to clamp down on cross-border tax avoidance from multinationals is here. Do Asian jurisdictions stand ready?
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India's private space boom
Intelligence report

Final frontiers, first opportunities

India's moon mission rocketed space into the minds of savvy businesses eager for a crack at the final frontier. But are the regulatory parameters in place to support the investment?
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Asia IP innovation
In focus

Leaps & bounds

How Asia is leading the way forward on IP innovation
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Corporate counsel associations alliances
Cover story

Strength in Numbers

Why are the region's corporate counsel associations scrambling to form alliances?
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Singapore as a regional legal hub
Asia-specific

Singapore swing

How Singapore became a regional legal hub
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South Korean female lawyers future of arbitration
Asia-specific

Pursuit of parity

Korean committee for women practitioners share views on the future of arbitration in the country
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In focus

Tiger’s eye

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Foreign investment in the Philippines
Asia-specific

All eyes on foreign investment in the Philippines

Long denied access to full business ownership in the Philippines, foreign investors are poised as new laws are now effective
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All illustrations for this feature have been created by AIvideo
Cover story

Legal AI’d

Unleashing potential of generative AI across the legal profession
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asian firms prioritising greater good
Intelligence report

A greater good

How law firms across the region prioritise pro bono work, sustainability, and staff welfare over profits
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The patent protector

One-on-one with Rowel Barba, APEC’s IP expert
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Inventive incentive
Asia-specific

Inventive incentive

Former justice head explains Hong Kong’s unique strengths as a dispute resolution hub
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crypto Digital ownership tokens
In focus

Connect the DOTs

Digital ownership tokens signal future of property law
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Mandatory Retirement Age for Judges
In focus

Judging retirement

Is the mandatory retirement age for judges still relevant?
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Japan’s business sector post-pandemic
Cover story

Business blossoms

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legal professionals 2023 expectationsvideo
Intelligence report

What’s ahead?

Our survey gathers opinions from legal professionals on their hopes in 2023
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climate change dispute
Vantage point

Power clash

With strong net zero commitments, Asia is set to be a key arena for climate change-related disputes
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In-house counsel turn-offs with law firmsvideo
Intelligence report

The hit list

Our survey gauges the opinions of in-house counsel on their pet peeves with law firms
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Intelligence report

High five

Heads of five major IP offices share their strategies to spur innovation while fostering collaboration
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HKIAC Mariel Dimsey
Asia-specific

Arbitration aspirations

Mariel Dimsey tells us about her new role and plans to enhance the city’s reputation as a leading dispute resolution hub
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legal talent
Cover story

Time for a rethink?

Lawyers across Asia are changing their career paths
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In focus

Damage controls

Korea takes hard look at creating safe space for cryptocurrency
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Global investment trends
Cover story

Keymasters

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anti-bribery and anti-fraud compliance strategies
Vantage point

Fair & square

In-house lawyers can provide valuable guidance in compliance matters if brought in at the right time
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Intelligence report

What a tangled Web

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Asia-specific

Against the clock

The interim chair of the Philippine Competition Commission shares key priorities
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Intelligence report

AI step-through

Step-by-step artificial intelligence strategies for business transformation
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Cover story

Riding out the storm

How can businesses mitigate the damage from global economic headwinds?
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Asia-specific

ESOP fables

Separating fact from myth about granting share deals to keep talent
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Asia-specific

Data Dojo

How Japan is keeping its data protection regime sharp
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Maintaining momentum
Cover story

Maintaining momentum

What will the new government in Philippines mean for businesses?
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Monkey Business
Intelligence report

Monkey business

The scandal that rocked the top branch of India's NSE
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women lawyersvideo
Asia-specific

In her words

Women lawyers share their passion for the profession
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A-List lawyers

Sri Lanka’s top lawyers

Following an extensive nomination process, Asia Business Law Journal unveils its top performers of the country’s legal profession
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New-Horizons
Cover story

New horizons

By George W Russell
As Asia-Pacific companies increasingly look abroad for fresh opportunities, law firms are expanding their footprints in response.
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Outside the box
Asia-specific

Outside the box

Movement in the West towards greater diversity and inclusion is now reverberating in Asia via work directed to law firms that embrace these values. But just how proactive are our legal communities here?
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Cover story

War of attrition

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, the international legal community has condemned not just with words, but by boycotting Russian business and transactions
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Daoism: a new kind of faith
Asia-specific

DAOism: a new kind of faith

By Andrew Godwin
The idea for a decentralised autonomous organisation, where the rules are baked into its code with no management structure or board of directors, has emerged with the rise of blockchain technology
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In focus

Forbidden not forgotten

Enthusiasm for cryptos in Indonesia has led Muslim clerics to forbid them, but the market begs to differ
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Asia Business Law Survey 2021
Asia-specific

Asia Business Law Survey

Our regional survey of law firms finds the legal market has adapted well during the pandemic and is striking a positive note for 2022
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Vantage point

One step ahead

As most Asian jurisdictions restrict firms from promoting their services, marketing expert Barbara Koenen-Geerdink shares the workaround through business development strategies
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Asia-specific

Rise with the tide

Chen Yan, GC of KE Holdings, shares his experiences in adapting to China’s new personal data law
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Down-to-brass-tax-L1
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Down to brass tax

OECD tax expert reveals what is behind the sweeping overhaul of the international tax system
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renewable energy
In focus

Asia renewed

Renewable energy projects have blossomed across Asia. What has led to the recent boom?
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hard-talk-gc-survey
Intelligence report

Hard talk

Our survey gets the candid opinions of regional in-house counsel when it comes to legal services from law firms, and they’re not pulling any punches
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SPAC
Cover story

SPAC super league

SPACs have climbed into the big league of capital markets, so we crunched the stats on Asia-related SPAC listings to find the highest performing legal advisers
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NFTs
Vantage point

NFTs and the IP conundrum

Are existing copyrights laws redundant in the case of NFTs, as blockchain technology itself provides for the protection of proof of authenticity and ownership of underlying digital assets?
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legal tech
Intelligence report

Siri Hal Jarvis & Associates

We peer into the undefined future of legal tech and explore how AI is already reshaping the business of law. Just how long will it be before Jarvis makes partner?
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ruben maximiano
Cover story

Ruben’s rules

The OECD’s Paris-based senior competition expert, Ruben Maximiano, shares how adopting an effective competition policy helps increase investor confidence
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Claudia salomonvideo
Editorial features

Looking to the East

The new president of the ICC Court, Claudia Salomon, discusses what changes she expects to see in the dispute resolution landscape in Asia
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ESG principles in Asia - Business Law
Asia-specific

Spinning green into gold

ESG-focused fund inflows into Asia are growing, but investing is replete with risk given the region’s diversities and historical inequalities
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Features

Global insights for Japanese companies

Once the world’s manufacturing hub, Japan is now a global financial powerhouse, and an investor of choice for countries across the world. Their technological prowess, manufacturing capabilities, long investment horizons and friendly terms make them sought-after investors
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China intellectual property
Intelligence report

China’s IP makeover

Top-down intellectual property reforms include major judicial and legislative change, solving problems that have affected enterprises for decades. But do the changes go far enough?
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data privacy
Asia-specific

Devil in the data

Looking up to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation as a benchmark, Asian data privacy landscape evolves rapidly with its own unique approaches and challenges
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Gerard Sandersvideo
Features

Pathfinder

Gerard Sanders, the AIIB's general counsel, looks back at the bank's first five years, including its innovations through covid-19, as he prepares to leave the position
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asian law firms survey
Features

Asia Business Law Survey

Our regional survey of law firms examines the impact of the pandemic, how the legal market has persevered, and whether changes adopted by the sector will be permanent
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SMC Ban Jiun Ean mediationvideo
Vantage point

Finding middle ground

Singapore Mediation Centre’s executive director, Ban Jiun Ean, discusses the art of mediation, the impact of the Singapore Convention on Mediation, emerging trends in the sector and the possibilities for online dispute resolution
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Googlevideo
Features

Google Leegle

Google’s director of legal operations, technology and strategy Mary Shen O’Carroll talks about emerging trends in legal technology and the future of in-house legal teams
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licensing
Features

IP profit v human loss

Big pharma is racing to find covid-19 vaccines in the hope of profiting from a virtually limitless global demand, but governments are likely to step in to tilt the scale
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video
Features

Reimagining INTA

The CEO of the International Trademark Association, Etienne Sanz de Acedo, talks to Asia Business Law Journal about his reinvention of the global flagship INTA Annual Meeting event with a bold move to the virtual sphere in this pandemic year
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teh cayman islands
In focus

Back off black

The EU removed the Cayman Islands from its blacklist of tax havens in October, after the British overseas territory was named a non-cooperative jurisdiction for tax purposes. Did the blacklist affect its business or reputation?
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limited partnership fund ordinance
Features

Harbouring ambitions

With the new limited partnership fund legislation Hong Kong is showing its intent to lure asset managers away from their favoured offshore jurisdictions and anchor them in the city
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trump us electionvideo
Features

Election day fireworks

Renowned legal professor Lawrence Douglas discusses the possibility of a constitutional crisis if Donald Trump should lose the US presidential election, but refuse to go
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cybersecurity cyberattack data protectionvideo
Features

Vanquishing viral enemies

Senior in-house counsel share their ideas and practical solutions on fighting cybersecurity and data privacy challenges
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Justice Beverley McLachlin hong kong overseas judge
Features

Foreign yet familiar

In an exclusive interview, Canadian Justice Beverley McLachlin talks about her role as an overseas judge in Hong Kong
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general counsels
Features

Charting a new course

As the region feels its way through the fog of the global pandemic, we enlisted some of Asia’s top general counsel for a virtual roundtable to plot a roadmap for recovery
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Bangladesh
Asia-specific

Bangladesh: Ready for business

Often overshadowed in such a powerhouse neighbourhood, this populous nation has scripted an unlikely economic success story, creating lucrative opportunities for pioneering foreign investors
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trump
In focus

High stakes

The months leading up to the US presidential election in November will be crucial for the world, and especially for Asia. Dennis Unkovic explores the cards being dealt in political and legal terms, and warns the stakes could not be higher
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privacy
In focus

Are you being watched?

Governments adopting trace-and-track apps to prevent the spread of the pandemic have raised questions about the ‘right balance’ between pandemic response and privacy considerations
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covid
Features

Counterpunch!

With COVID-19 raging across the region, governments are trying to avoid knockout blows for their territories as they counter with life or death policy moves and decisions affecting business survival
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Asia-specific

Power & parity

Senior women lawyers across Asia share personal stories of successes and struggles for a more inclusive legal profession
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home
Asia-specific

Home & safe?

With COVID-19 forcing companies to implement work-from-home policies, Jim Fitzsimmons helps us understand the cybersecurity risks posed by a remote workforce
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senior executives
Asia-specific

C-suite sanction

The case of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn is a timely reminder for multinational corporations to ensure their senior executives are prepared for all scenarios when relocating to Asia
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covid
Features

COVID-19: What’s your plan?

With the spread of novel coronavirus, businesses are taking unprecedented measures in order to stay operational and to protect their employees
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Foreign Investment
In focus

Dollars in the details?

China’s new Foreign Investment Law and its implementation regulations lay out a blueprint full of promise for international companies. But the lack of detail may present problems
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personal data
Intelligence report

Juggling act

The evolution of 含羞草社区 personal data protection bill is influenced by the need to protect the interests of businesses, the government and the individual, writes Yukti Sharma
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malaysia
Features

Jump start

One-and-a-half years into the Mahathir administration, Malaysian law firms are highlighting major legislative developments, pitfalls and trends that need immediate attention to electrify the nation’s business environment
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Baker McKenzie
Asia-specific

In the hot seat

Milton Cheng was recently elected Baker McKenzie’s new global chair. His four-year tenure began in October, and here he talks to Asia Business Law Journal about his thoughts and strategies for the firm
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