South Korean firms are increasingly looking at India's vast market through strategic joint ventures, balancing opportunities against regulatory complexities while diversifying their operations beyond ...

Singapore disputes and advisory boutique Sreenivasan Chambers has continued its expansion with the addition of new director Palaniappan Sundararaj, who leaves K&L Gates Straits Law after over 30 years ...

Thailand's groundbreaking Platform Economy Act aims to tame its $50 billion digital frontier by imposing strict oversight on tech giants while balancing innovation needs. Thailand's draft Platform ...

UK law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper has continued to expand its Singapore office with the addition of banking and finance partner Zhi Chao Chor from Big Four firm WongPartnership. Chor’s arrival ...

Countries across Asia are racing to modernise their intellectual property frameworks, enacting sweeping reforms from unified regional registries in ASEAN to specialised courts in China and landmark ...

Thailand is poised to become the second ASEAN nation, after Singapore, to implement a carbon tax regime as part of its ambitious climate strategy targeting carbon neutrality by 2050. The proposed ...

Indonesia's ambitious new sovereign wealth fund, Danantara, is poised to revolutionise the nation's economy with unprecedented control over $900 billion in assets, but lawyers say that stronger ...

Hong Kong law firm Howse Williams has expanded its technology, media and telecommunications offering with the hire of Paul Haswell as a partner from U.S. law firm K&L Gates. With 25 years of ...

The Indonesian legal community is in mourning following the death of Ibrahim Sjarief Assegaf, co-founder and managing partner of the country’s largest law firm, Assegaf Hamzah & Partners (AHP), who ...

The PRC’s Zhong Lun Law Firm has added three new M&A partners to its Hong Kong office, after bringing on board former Kirkland & Ellis partners Stacey Shen (L) and Min Lu (C), and Ropes & Gray counsel ...

Global legal powerhouse CMS has announced that Indian law firm IndusLaw will join its network, creating CMS IndusLaw in a move that significantly expands the European firm's presence in Asia's ...

Global law firm Ashurst has appointed former Simmons & Simmons partner Clarence Ding as its new Asia head of employment, based in Singapore. Ding was heading the Singapore employment practice at his ...