21 FEB 2019 Top 10 Headlines | ALB Submissions are now open for the ALB 2019 Intellectual Property Rankings.
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| Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India’s largest law firm by headcount, has set up a legal-tech incubator called Prarambh, believed to be the country’s first. Full Article |
| Bae, Kim & Lee, Korea’s third-largest law firm, has hired capital markets specialist Jeong-Hoon Lee as a partner in Seoul from rival Shin & Kim. Full Article |
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| IndusLaw has assisted Indian hotel chain OYO in raising $1 billion from existing investors, including Japan’s Softbank Group and Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing. Full Article |
| Kim Hyun-suk, the head of Clifford Chance’s Korea office, will soon leave the firm, marking the latest in a series of exits from the UK firm’s Seoul operation. Full Article |
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| Over a year has passed since MeToo started trending and subsequently triggered a global outpouring. In the aftermath, organizations throughout Asia have reported increased numbers of complaints about sexual misconduct in the workplace. Along with this has come more work for employment lawyers. Full Article |
| Two years following the enactment of Financial Service Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan/"OJK) Regulation No. 77/POJK.01/2016 of 2016 (POJK 77/2016), Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P Lending) has grown popular in Indonesia. Based on data from OJK per Oct. 2018, a total of 15,990,143,141,355 rupiah has been distributed to the borrowers in P2P Lending. It has grown 432.5% from Jan. 2018 until Oct. 2018. Until Dec. 2018, the number of P2P Lending Platform which has been registered and supervised by OJK has reached 88 companies, one of them has been given a license. Full Article |
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| The number of in-house lawyers is on the rise in Japan, but more noteworthy, in a country with notoriously poor gender parity, is that the trend has been noticeably female. Full Article |
| Nigel Francis, the former head of Asia for Addleshaw Goddard, has left the UK firm to join Hong Kong-based boutique YTL as a senior consultant. Full Article |
| The recent removal and arrest of Carlos Ghosn, chairman of car maker Nissan is another corporate scandal to tarnish Japan Inc. in recent years, and once again raises fundamental questions about governance in the country. While some of the issues are deep-rooted and would require a serious change of mindset, senior in-house counsel can play their part in improving the culture going forward. Full Article |
| Dechert has hired litigator Maria Sit as a partner in Hong Kong from Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she was a counsel. Full Article |
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