The world's top four accounting firms will have to bring in Chinese citizens to run their operations in China and end the dominance of foreign partners under new rules announced by the Finance Ministry on Thursday.
Hard Landing? - Worries of a possible “hard landing” of the world’s second-largest economy have risen with China’s quarterly growth rate dropping to its slowest in three years. The National Bureau of Statistics on April 13 announced that the annual…
A Hong Kong Court of Appeal judgment from last December has now cast a spotlight onto arb-med, a dispute resolution approach routinely used in China and Japan. Although the mechanism is allowed in Hong Kong, it has curiously never been utilised…
Chinese private equity funds are facing a shake-up with the boom times ending for many, as fund raising dries up and new tougher rules are expected to be introduced later this year. The time is approaching when the wheat will be separated from the…
As one of Japan’s Big Four law firms, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has made it its mission to improve diversity and inclusion, or D&I, across the firm and Japan’s legal industry. ALB talks to Mari Itoh, a partner at AMT and a founding member of the firm’s D&I committee, about AMT’s D&I initiatives, goals, and challenges.
ALB Asia's Fastest Growing Firms: One Asia Lawyers Group
One Asia Lawyers Group has been recognised by Asian Legal Business as one of Asia’s fastest-growing firms this year. In this interview with ALB, OAL Managing Partner Tetsuo Kurita shares some of his firm's growth highlights and development strategies.
Kingfisher ALB Hong Kong Law Awards: Hear From Our Partners
After two years of virtual events, the Kingfisher ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2022 made an epic in-person comeback on Sept. 9, bringing around 200 legal professionals and leaders together for the prestigious celebration held concurrently at the Island Shangri-La and the Ritz-Carlton, and connected via livestream.
Before the event, ALB chatted with our event partners to hear their tho…