The Shanghai expo, themed “Better City, Better Life”, is expected to attract between 70 and 80 million visitors and will be a significant event for Shanghai. Aside from the opportunities brought by the World Fair, the city remains a key focus for…
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…
Guangdong is described as a smaller scale sample of China’s overall legal market landscape, where the inland mountainous areas are equivalent to the underdeveloped West and the prosperous Pearl River Delta (PRD) acts as the province’s Beijing and…
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…