SPACE LAW: Final Frontier
Government-led efforts to improve regulatory and financial barriers in India's space sector are rapidly creating an important new market for the country's law firms, which are looking at increased work for their M&A, private capital investment, project finance, intellectual property and technology lawyers.
RANKINGS: ALB Employer of Choice 2024
Around a year ago, law firms were already grappling with the challenge of keeping their members, particularly the younger generation, engaged, motivated, and committed. However, the advent of a groundbreaking new technology, in the form of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI), has added another significant variable, presenting both risks and opportunities.
AI: Different strokes
As the transformative era of Gen AI continues to redefine creativity, it is also igniting debates on copyright laws and ethical boundaries. And as legal battles over intellectual property intensify, courts in different jurisdictions are taking unique approaches to the larger questions surrounding ownership of art and content created by this new technology.
CAM, JSA advise on NHAI InvIT $870 mln investment top-up
Indian law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has advised NHAI InvIT (National Highways Infra Trust) (NHIT), a privately listed infrastructure investment trust, on the $740 million issuance of its units by way of an institutional placement to eligible investors.
INDONESIA: Arrested Development
When Indonesia established a carbon trading mechanism last year, the move was welcomed across the board. However, a lack of strong implementing regulations, regulatory uncertainty, and insufficient business incentives have combined to ensure slow-going for the country's carbon trading market.
BRIEFS: China’s Ageing Population Set To Increase Opportunities for Legal Work
China is grappling with an escalating demographic crisis. In 2023, the senior population has ballooned by 30 million in the world’s second-largest economy, taking the total size of the elderly class to 300 million – almost a fifth of the country’s population.
EXPLAINER: TikTok Set To Restart E-Commerce in Indonesia, but Doubts Persist
TikTok has been engulfed in regulatory whirlwinds across the world, which have put a dent in its global ambitions. In the United States, the popular social media app owned by ByteDance faces a ban in the United States unless its Beijing-based parent company divests its U.S. operations, and in Indonesia, TikTok had to temporarily quit its e-commerce business as its shopping arm ran into a slew of obstacles.
SAM picks up CAM capital markets partner in Mumbai
Indian law firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co has hired a second capital markets partner in 2024 with the addition of partner Rohit Tiwari from rival Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in Mumbai.
KPMG Hong Kong law firm founder heads to CRS
UK law firm Charles Russell Speechlys has hired a team of four attorneys from SF Lawyers, KPMG’s law firm in Hong Kong, led by the firm’s founder and managing partner, Shirley Fu.
Haiwen, CC advise on China TCM's $2 bln take-private deal
Sinopharm Group, an investment consortium led by Sinopharm Group, and China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings (China TCM) recently announced a take-private deal for the Hong Kong-listed China TCM through a scheme of arrangement.