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 ...

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 ...

U.S. law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired restructuring expert Daniel Margulies as a partner in its Hong Kong office from Dechert, which shuttered its office in the Chinese city last year.

UAE heavyweight Habib Al Mulla & Partners has opened its fifth international office in New Delhi, marking a strategic bet on the growing legal services corridor between India and the Gulf as bilateral ...

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 ...

Christian .Teo (L) and Esther Yong, two disputes lawyers with Singapore law firm Oon & Bazul, have exited to set up their own venture, Watershed Law. While Teo was a partner at Oon & Bazul, Yong was a ...

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 ...

U.S. law firm Reed Smith has welcomed two new corporate finance partners across its Asian offices from A&O Shearman. Tim Beech (L) was joint managing partner of the latter firm’s Singapore office, ...

The Supreme Court of India's unprecedented decision to order the liquidation of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited (BPSL) has sent shockwaves through India's corporate restructuring landscape. On May 2, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...