Features

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.

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

Louise Wang, BenQ & AUO Group's China general counsel for 12 years, shares her experience and strategy safeguarding the companies' IPR and her concerns over the domestic legal profession

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

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

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

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

Sundaresh Menon reveals the challenges he faces as the new leader of Rajah & Tann and shares his passion for arbitration

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

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

Jaclyn Jhin, COO and CRO of global capital markets Asia at Morgan Stanley, is testament to the fact that women can be high achievers professionally while successfully raising a family. Not that it’s easy…

What happens when the main source of revenue for most aviation practices in Asia dries up?

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

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.

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

Legal advisors have to evolve as fast as Alibaba itself to keep, or win, mandates. ALB meets the company’s in-house team

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

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.

Microsoft's Gutiérez shares the story behind the initiative and his plans for its future