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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Christopher Stephens – Orrick: Change management
By ALB
| Thursday, 12 November 2009
Almost five years on from the collapse of Coudert Brothers, Orrick’s Christopher Stephens explains to ALB why he still calls on his change management experience to drive the firm’s expansion in Asia and manage the financial crisis.
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