Practice area spotlight: M&A
King & Spalding’s Sergey Komolov, managing partner, and Ilya Zotkin, of counsel, discuss the latest challenges facing M&A lawyers, including client expectations and the redistribution of market share
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Russia and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The legal market in Russia and, more specifically, the M&A practice area generally follow and are influenced by the relevant economic and political drivers. Political turmoil (including continued and worsening budgetary problems), geopolitical tensions, …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
Vietnam’s M&A market is on an upward trajectory. Frasers Law Company’s
Justin Gisz, Pham Thanh Mai and Nguyen Thi Minh Ha explain why
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Vietnam and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The legal market in Vietnam is stronger and more vibrant than ever before and is growing rapidly. The growth of the legal market is a corollary of the rapid development and expansion of Vietnam’s …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
Deals involving Chinese buyers are also likely to increase as a result of the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, say Nicholas Davies, Vincent Chan and Alison Thomson
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Hong Kong and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The recent changes to the Hong Kong Listing Rules allow biotech issuers who do not meet the financial eligibility tests to be listed, and permit the listing of companies with “weighted voting right” …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
Samridh Bhardwaj, managing associate in Remfry & Sagar’s corporate team, breaks down the Supreme Court of India’s latest much-talked-about decision
Why is this latest Supreme Court ruling so important for the legal market? Globalisation has necessitated cross-border transactions with diverse commercial objectives. Multinational commerce requires private parties to deliberate on cross-jurisdictional legal issues which in turn require reliance on legal service providers from across the world. As a result, many foreign as well as Indian …
Continue reading “Why India’s ‘fly-in, fly-out’ judgment leaves much to be desired”
Practice area spotlight: M&A
Ireland’s M&A market has remained buoyant, despite Brexit and international politics stateside, explains Arthur Cox’s Geoff Moore, Christopher McLaughlin and Brian Doherty
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Ireland and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? M&A activity in Ireland has been strong and both domestic and international buyers have been active with a number of inbound and outbound strategic acquisitions being made, including by Allergan, CRH, Eir, and Mallinckrodt. …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
As its domestic market shrinks, the recent EU-Japanese Economic Partnership Agreement set a positive signal for Japan’s cross-border M&A market, write Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu’s Kei Asatsuma, Shuichi Nishimura and Kuhlmann Axel
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Japan and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The Japanese legal market remains very business and investment friendly. One of the most significant changes in the past was the introduction of 2015’s Corporate Governance Code, with the goal of promoting sustainable corporate …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
South America’s largest country must emerge from its recession years and come up with sound economic policies to once more gain the trust of the international M&A community, writes Thiago Barbosa Sandim of Demarest Avogados
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Brazil and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? I would say the legal market is showing surprising levels of resilience and growth for a country in such a turmoil for such a long per iod. The compound annual growth rate of our …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
The jurisdiction also remains popular for ICOs of cryptocurrencies and special purpose acquisition vehicles, advise David Clark and Brittany Cummings
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in the BVI and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The BVI suffered severe damage in Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. In the aftermath of the storms, the financial services community formed an alliance and worked together to ensure the safety …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
Clients’ expectations are pushing firms to take a multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional approach, explain Deloitte Legal’s Reneta Petkova, Kaloyan Yordanov, Nikolay Kolev and Hristo Milushev
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in Bulgaria and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? The high level of competition in the Bulgarian market, which includes both well-established local players and international law firms, has brought down the price for legal services and underscored the need for effectiveness as …
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Practice area spotlight: M&A
Appleby’s Jacob MacAdam and Dean Bennett talk legislative reform, M&A restructurings, Brexit and why young lawyers need to trust their judgement
Please give us an overview of the current legal market in the Cayman Islands and how any recent developments have impacted your practice? 2018 has seen the continuation of an unprecedented period of deal making across all sectors. The global conditions that drove M&A activity in 2017 remain at the time of writing – buyers …
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