The Asian Legal Business has arrived at a final list of Asia’s top 40 lawyers under the age of 40, carefully selected amidst nominations received from more than 500 lawyers. The lawyers in this list come from varied jurisdictions and practice areas, and were selected after a rigorous process based on their quality of work, recommendations from their clients and colleagues and potential for future growth. The list is in alphabetical order and some lawyers have been profiled.   

Innovation has inevitably become a tangible and urgent need for the legal sector around the world, when facing the evolving business ecosystem driven by digital transformation and unpredictability caused by the pandemic. Particularly in Asia, law firms exhibit great passion over the years for embracing the wave and incorporating new technologies and techniques to secure new clients and enhance service delivery.

We are now accepting submissions for ALB North Asia's Top 15 Litigators 2023.

Jia Yuan Law Offices has advised Chinese lithium battery maker CALB Co on its $1.3 billion IPO and listing on the Hong Kong Exchange, with Clifford Chance and JunHe advising the sponsors.

The 21st Kingfisher ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2022, the first in-person awards in Hong Kong in two years, was a one-of-a-kind celebration, being held simultaneously at two locations that were connected by a livestream. Awards were given out in 47 categories, including the first-ever ESG and Sustainability Law Firm of the Year. We look back on some highlights.

Indian law firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has hired Pranav Mago, a former South Asia head of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), as a director. Mago will join CAM’s Singapore office in early 2023.

We are now accepting submissions for ALB’s Rising Stars Hong Kong list, which spotlights the next generation of the region’s lawyers. The list will be published in the January 2023 issue of ALB Asia.

As a reputable business hub and world-leading financial centre, Singapore has been seeing the rise of a number of quality smaller law firms that are punching well above their weight in terms of work handled and services delivered.

ALB is pleased to launch our ALB Asia's Top 15 Private Wealth Lawyers, which will be announced in ALB Asia magazine's December 2022 edition. 

With COVID-19 changing the face of work across all sectors, Indian law firms may face the loss of an unexpected number of legal professionals across all experience levels due to persistent challenges in the industry such as long hours and packages that are becoming less attractive, according to legal recruitment and consulting firm Vahura.