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Asia’s IBs go international
By Alice Yan
| Thursday, 18 February 2010
The financial crisis has created opportunity for investment banks Asia to accelerate expansion plans both within and beyond the region.
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The 'counsel' position: good for lawyer, firm or client?
By Yun Zhang
| Thursday, 11 February 2010
Are international firms increasingly using the title 'counsel' to provide an extra career path for their lawyers or an extra weapon in their business development agendas? ALB finds that the truthful answer varies from firm to firm and lawyer to lawyer...
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ANALYSIS: Creating synergy in Greater China
By Yun Zhang
| Thursday, 4 February 2010
As delegates from 16 lawyer associations who came together at the Cross Strait Four Regions Lawyers Summit in Hong Kong recently found, minds must be kept open if lawyers are to contribute optimally to the future development and prosperity of Greater China.
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Behind the Carrefour ruling
By ALB
| Friday, 22 January 2010
The Carrefour decision in Indonesia has attracted criticism from investors, the business community, lawyers and almost everyone in between.
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ANALYSIS: Charge up for new charge-out rates in 2010
By Jade Ng
| Tuesday, 15 December 2009
A recent survey by Altman Weil, a legal management consultant, found that US law firms project an average overall increase in rates of 3.2% for 2010. Given that the US was hit particularly hard by the GFC, this is somewhat surprising and prompts queries about potential increases in charge-out rates of law firms in Asia…
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ANALYSIS: Crisis billing
By Rashida Yosufzai
| Thursday, 12 November 2009
The more in-house budgets are cut, the more firms need to be innovative in the way they bill.
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ANALYSIS: Market for legal talent: recovery imminent
By Jade Ng
| Friday, 6 November 2009
Lawyers in Asia are hoping that reports of a recovering economy will breathe life into a barren legal recruitment market. ALB investigates whether firms are already on the lookout for new lawyers.
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Principles before profit
By Rashida Yosufzai
| Thursday, 1 October 2009
Meet the man behind the world’s first Shariah-compliant law firm in what could be the start of a new business model
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Beyond reproach: FCPA compliance
By ALB
| Thursday, 24 September 2009
Asia, with its seemingly endless supply of natural resources and capital, its wealth of strong conglomerates and relative insulation from the toxic assets that catalysed an economic collapse of catastrophic proportions in the West, is being rightly regarded as one of the brightest stars on an otherwise dark economic horizon.
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Bank loans back in fashion
By Jade Ng
| Thursday, 24 September 2009
Encouraged by the Central Government, PRC banks are back with a vengeance and eager to lend
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Outbound M&A southbound deals head north
By Jessica Seah
| Thursday, 17 September 2009
Despite recent political tensions with Australia after the Rio Tinto and Chinalco sagas, PRC firms are still banking on alliances with Australian firms paying off as Sino-Australian M&A continues to surge
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