专题报道 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?

The past few years saw a significant increase in the number of tort-related cases. As the new Tort Liability Law becomes effective on 1 July 2010, lawyers are expecting another surge

The recent US/China Economic Dialogue discussions held between the two countries further cements their powerful business and bilateral relations. ALB examines the new playing field for 21st century deals.

Through a series of landmark transactions in recent years GCL-Poly has become one of the largest players in the world’s solar power. ALB China finds out how the in-house legal function has transformed into a value-adding part of the business during the process.

The amount of opportunity for law firms in post-financial crisis China is unprecedented, but with cut-throat competition between them, who will get the biggest share? Alice Yan talks to Australia’s top law firms on their strategies for China.

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

Chinese construction companies are making remarkable inroads into the international market and paying more attention to legal risk management, and their law firms have also seen their construction practices flourishing, with legal teams growing and billable hours soaring.

The Year of the Tiger begins, bringing promises of prosperous opportunities . ALB China ushers in the New Year by inviting legal professionals to share their wishful thinking for the New Year.

Last year saw an IPO boom led by Chinese companies seeking listings in both the mainland and Hong Kong. China’s law firms expect plenty more of the same for 2010.

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…

China is emerging as a real IP player on the world stage and IP lawyers are happily marching towards a bright, and busy, future.

中国知识产权保护的执法程度曾经一度被局限在打击和销毁低成本生产的假冒伪劣商品范围内。

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

While the rest of the world takes a year-long hiatus from making private equity transactions, China’s domestic PE industry, now led by domestic players, remains active and is fast evolving. A strong private equity market will not only drive economic growth but also foster a more sophisticated domestic PE legal fraternity.