The stiff competition for talent in Hong Kong has been exacerbated by the rapid expansion of PRC firms. With the talent market tighter than ever, firms need to go above and beyond offering an attractive salary in order to hire and hold on to the best and brightest.

The recent DLA Piper hack has shown that law firms remain vulnerable to damaging data breaches, regardless of size. Cybersecurity experts provide tips on how law firms can avoid becoming the next cautionary tale.

Despite the uncertainties of 2016, Malaysia’s M&A scene saw some significant dealmaking last year, and lawyers are seeing more of it in 2017.

China’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative is expected to impact a significant chunk of the world’s economy, especially large swathes of Asia, Africa and Europe. And offshore financial centres are an important part of this strategy, translating to increased work for lawyers.

Standard & Poor’s recently upgraded Indonesia’s credit rating to investment grade, spurring hopes of additional investment worth billions of dollars into Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Lawyers talk about the potential impact of the upgrade, as well as the sectors that are hot at present.

A combination of increasing competition, rising costs, and a drop in China work has placed international law firms in Hong Kong – particularly those from the U.S. – under significant pressure. This confluence of factors has resulted in a moment of reckoning, when firms need to decide whether they should consolidate, scale down, or exit the territory altogether.

In the decade since Duane Morris established offices in Vietnam, the Southeast Asian country has opened up its economy and experienced rapid growth and increasing inflow of business. As a result, the Philadelphia-headquartered firm has been able to grow its Vietnam offering pretty much in tandem with the market, and now stands as one of the leading law firms in the country.

What is it like to be an in-house counsel – particularly the head of legal – in a developing market like Myanmar? For starters, understanding the country and its people is critical, and so is expecting challenges to pop up in the unlikeliest of places. But for those willing to stick it out, the experience can be both educational and exhilarating.

Investors are hot on solar projects in Southeast Asia as prospects in Europe dry up.

The Thai government recently launched Thailand 4.0, an economic model designed to get the country out of the middle-income trap. The move has placed much emphasis on the country’s sustainable growth and development with a greater concern towards the environment, and this, in turn, is influencing the country’s energy M&A landscape.