In our landmark ASIAN MENA-COUNSEL Deals of the Year report, we are delighted to bring you a comprehensive overview of our winners from 2012. A varied constellation of deals made it onto our shortlist this year and these consisted of some heavy-hitting M&A transactions, impressive energy projects, titanic IPO’s and various Islamic finance deals.
David Smyth and Warren Ganesh, of Smyth & Co in association with Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, summarise the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on legal advice privilege and some key points for lawyers, in-house lawyers and other professional advisers.
Here, Sesto E Vecchi, Managing Partner of Russin & Vecchi takes us through the finer points of legal professional privilege under Vietnamese law. Turning the lens on in-house counsel, we learn a great deal about how and when the privilege can be preserved.
In this month’s edition of ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL, we bring you an in-depth Special Report on Energy & Natural Resources. Phoenix Legal enlighten us on the steps taken by the Indian government to tap its oil and gas reserves and they also shed light on how foreign investment is changing the country’s landscape. K&L Gates explain how the growing appetite of Asian investors for Russia’s oil and gas has led to a heightened interest in the Eastern Siberian region. Also look out for our latest In-House Insight and a new column featuring a Q&A with Managing Partner David Tang from K&L Gates.
In this month's edition of ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL, we provide you with a Mekong Region Update. Industry experts from Gide Loyrette Nouel offer up a comprehensive overview on the current status of infrastructure in these largely underdeveloped countries bound together by the Mekong River. We learn that some of these countries are seeing sweeping economic and legal changes and here we discover how this has impacted the landscape in terms of foreign investment and new projects in the pipeline.
In a recent landmark ruling, the UK Supreme Court deliberated on the question of whether an overseas defendant had to have submitted to the jurisdiction under common law before a foreign bankruptcy order would be recognised and enforced in England. Richard Keady and Jay Qin of Bird & Bird consider the practical implications of the decision and the significance it may have on practitioners going forward.
