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Middle East and India: Standing guard

As hopes of market liberalisation build, international law firms are already making a major play for Indian business, using a range of tactics to win the jealously-guarded prize
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Middle East and India: Shifting sands

With high levels of liquidity in the marketplace, investors within Saudi Arabia have the resources and an increasing desire to break away from their traditional oil-based industries to a more diversified portfolio. For many years their only option was to invest overseas but, increasingly, Saudi Arabian investors are looking for domestic investment opportunities. Sectors of particular interest and growth include banking, telecommunications and the media.
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Middle East and India: Aiming for India

There is no doubt that the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) is, on the face of it, an attractive proposition for Indian companies seeking to access foreign capital markets. In the last year 11 Indian or India-focused companies have raised over £1bn on AIM and, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed, more than 20 Indian companies will float on London's junior exchange in 2007, jointly generating £2.5bn.
7 minute read

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Middle East and India: The specifics of logistics

Creating a legal and regulatory system from scratch is one of the greatest challenges a lawyer can face - and one that is essential in the process of creating a legal free zone that operates effectively.
4 minute read

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Legal Developments: Vietnam: Join the club

WTO membership heralds Vietnamese liberalisation in an increasingly market-oriented economy Vietnam joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 11 January, 2007, signalling a major step towards a more market-oriented economy. In the 880-page Working Party Report, Vietnam undertakes to implement a series of measures to liberalise its trade regime and privatise state-owned enterprises, and also to comply fully with WTO rules regarding trade-related aspects of intellectual property (TRIPS), technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures agreements without restriction.
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Legal Developments: Australia: Balancing act

- Litigation-funders now have added impetus to bring class actions against insolvent companies on behalf of both on-market share purchasers and subscribers, since the distinction has effectively been waived. Liquidators, administrators and financiers should give careful consideration to this decision and their approach to assessing the value of shareholders who allege they were misled into purchasing or refraining from selling the shares of a company.
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The investor rules

With the 2008 Olympics looming and growth at 10.7% last year (12% in Beijing), China's economic boom shows few signs of slowing down. The heavy influx of foreign investment means new disputes as well as deals. Foreign investors entering developing nations often prefer arbitration rather than submitting directly to the jurisdiction of the local courts and unknown quantities, both cultural and legal.
7 minute read

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Wilmer Cutler builds in China with corporate hire

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has boosted its China practice after hiring the former managing partner of Morrison & Foerster's Hong Kong practice. Robert Woll joined the firm on 26 February as co-partner in change of its Beijing office alongside Lester Ross.
1 minute read

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Canadian giant adds comms with latest merger

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin has agreed to merge with specialist communications firm Johnston & Buchan, it was announced today (13 March). The deal is effective from 1 April, 2007, and sees all 13 lawyers from the Ottawa practice join Fasken Martineau, which operates five offices across Canada.
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A&O raids Freshfields Tokyo for local law launch

Allen & Overy (A&O) has hired launched a Japanese-law practice in Tokyo after hiring a partner from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Nobuo Nakata, who specialises in corporate, M&A and structured finance work, joins the City giant's local arm and will co-head its Japanese law practice alongside another new arrival, Osamu Ito.
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