Features

  • FEATURE: International Arbitration: batting for China
    By Jessica Seah | Friday, 24 September 2010

    International arbitration – like everything else in China today – has become a growth industry. Spurred by institutional changes and a procession of cross-border transactions, both the number of disputes and the institutions providing dispute resolution services have proliferated.

  • FEATURE: Private equity: rise of RMB funds
    By Jessica Seah | Thursday, 26 August 2010

    While global PE investors rush to set up their RMB funds, lawyers are also seeing their private equity expertise migrate from advising offshore funds to domestic funds. How fast have lawyers caught onto their PE game and how determined are they to make it a purely Chinese affair? ALB investigates

  • Feature: Competition goes global
    By Yun Zhang | Wednesday, 25 August 2010

    Being at the forefront of a country's developing anti-trust regime and working closely with clients and regulators during this evolution is regarded by many competition lawyers as a fascinating part of their work

  • INTERVIEW: DBS Shanghai: Bank on local knowledge
    By Jessica Seah | Wednesday, 11 August 2010

    Many in-house counsels speak of longevity with their employers - but few can assert that they have truly evolved with their companies' business agendas. Janet Lin, legal manager of DBS China, is one such accomplished in-house counsel

  • FEATURE: Continental drift
    By Alice Yan,Yun Zhang | Wednesday, 11 August 2010

    European law firms are often overlooked in the legal market, having entered the region late and being still relatively small in size. Yet their growth strategies in the past few years, either through acquisitions or alliance building, mean they now warrant growing attention

  • FEATURE: The IPO rally
    By Jessica Seah | Wednesday, 11 August 2010

    China has become Hong Kong's greatest competitor for the lucrative market IPO. Will domestic boards take the lead this year?

  • CEPA: a gate in the Great Wall yet to open
    By Yun Zhang | Friday, 19 March 2010

    CEPA shows that the government is serious about opening its legal market to Hong Kong firms, but the liberalisation progress has been regarded as 'too slow and too little' by many. ALB China investigates whether better alternatives exist and if the CEPA framework for the legal sector is now redundant

  • Offshore firms: Going for BRIC
    By Rashida Yosufzai | Wednesday, 24 February 2010

    Offshore law firms around the world have their eyes on a potentially huge client base in the BRIC nations

  • M&A
    By ALB | Wednesday, 24 February 2010

    What will be the salient M&A trends for 2010, and which firms are best positioned to take advantage of them?

  • Financial lawyers head back to work
    By ALB | Friday, 5 February 2010

    Even though the financial crisis hit hard, banking & finance lawyers have found innovative ways to keep busy and keep fee revenues up

  • ALB Watchlist 2010
    By ALB | Friday, 22 January 2010

    As the industry enters the New Year with a renewed sense of optimism, ALB singles out ten firms that are set to have a bigger 2010 than most.

  • 2010: The Year Ahead
    By ALB | Friday, 22 January 2010

    A panel of legal industry pundits predict Tiger-Year trends and provide a guide to the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead

  • TMT: A Brave New World
    By Jade Ng | Wednesday, 2 December 2009

    China is hurtling along the path of technological advancement and investors are facing a whole new world of opportunity and growth

  • New insurance law – beyond the duty of insuring
    By Jessica Seah | Friday, 27 November 2009

    Recent amendments to the Chinese insurance law have not only painted a bright picture for investment funds, but have also nudged Chinese law firms into keeping an eye out for more insurance mandates.

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