The COVID-19 pandemic, which has severely disrupted the normal functioning of many economies, is arguably one of the primary drivers of digital adoption across Southeast Asia and propelled explosive growth in a number of digital sectors, in particular, e-Commerce and financial services (digital payments). Indonesia (as the largest digital economy market in Southeast Asia) and Singapore (as a regional hub for unicorns setting up their headquarters) are two jurisdictions that have seen the majority of investment inflows in H1 2020, according to the e-Conomy SEA 2020 report published by Google, Temasek and Bain.

We are now accepting submissions for the ALB Asia Top 10 Offshore Litigators 2021.

Research for the ALB Top 50 Largest Law Firms 2021 rankings has commenced. Please use the forms below to submit your numbers to us. We will also be reaching out to you individually.

Submissions for ALB’s annual ranking of the best law firms for M&A in Asia are now open.

The ALB Singapore’s Top In-House Teams 2021 list will showcase the achievements of the finest in-house legal teams in Singapore.

It is not surprising that the brightest silver lining has been the increase of digitilization. It opens up many possibilities from doing fintechs to data centers. The impact is that it requires lawyers to be more sophisticated and to have the ability to synthesize things, to see things as interlinked and in holistic ways.

Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) plays an instrumental role in shaping the economy. Over the years, M&A deals have expanded both in scale, frequency, and complexity. Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on deals execution, the economic uncertainty, coupled with strengthened antitrust laws across jurisdictions, M&A lawyers will have to leverage their skills to navigate these testing times. In this inaugural ranking, we celebrate the top M&A lawyers who demonstrate practical experience and overcome the numerous challenges to complete the deals.

Young lawyers in the Indonesian legal community are making their mark in the market. In its third annual list of the ALB Indonesia Rising Stars, Asian Legal Business has listed 24 lawyers who are achieving results for their clients and setting high standards in the Indonesian legal space. The list is in alphabetical order and certain lawyers have been profiled.

Counsel to Mitbana Pte Ltd, a joint venture company of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) and Surbana Jurong (SJ), in the biggest and first-of-its-kind integrated smart and sustainable Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs) in BSD City, where the Project transform hundreds of hectares of greenfield land into TODs, including railways and public transport nodes, which expand BSD’s population of 200,000 residents.

ALB returns for the third time with the annual ALB India Law Awards. The event, which will be held on Thursday,  Aug. 5, 2021 in Mumbai, continues to celebrate exceptional contributions of private practice law firms and in-house teams from India’s legal industry.