Clifford Chance recently hosted the sixteenth edition of the Global Funds Conference in Luxembourg. Experts from Clifford Chance, along with industry leaders, discussed developments in responsible investing and digital assets, as well as the latest regional and global legal, regulatory, tax, and market developments. The discussions addressed the challenges and opportunities faced by the industry, as well as evolving market practices.

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We are pleased to present the third edition of our guide to restructuring and insolvency laws and procedures across key jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific region. This updated guide provides an overview of each jurisdiction’s applicable laws and regulations on key areas of concern, with chapters covering Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Restructuring and insolvency activity remains elevated across the region, following the COVID-19 pandemic and a period of higher interest rates. Local structural and other factors are driving activity in specific jurisdictions.

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This publication offers tailored solutions for fund managers and investors, allowing a combination of features from different jurisdictions. Notably, thanks to its limited partnership regime, the needs of clients from both common law and civil law jurisdictions can be accommodated.

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On 20 July 2023, the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (ETDA) received Royal Assent and became law in the UK. From 20 September 2023, the ETDA will allow for the legal recognition of trade documents such as bills of lading and bills of exchange in electronic form. In this briefing, we consider some of the ETDA's key provisions and its likely impact on global trade.

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The provision of custody services for cryptoassets has recently been under heightened scrutiny following high-profile insolvencies of certain crypto service providers. These insolvency proceedings have demonstrated that determining what type of claim clients of custodian wallet providers have in respect of their cryptoassets is crucial.

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To assist businesses to navigate their way through the different anti-corruption regimes, we have produced this Guide which sets out the legislative anti-bribery framework in thirteen major jurisdictions across Asia Pacific and, in Annexures 1 and 2 respectively, we have summarised the provisions of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and UK Bribery Act, which are major pieces of anti-bribery legislation that have extraterritorial reach. For each jurisdiction, we also offer insight and analysis in relation to the enforcement of the relevant legislation.

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Technology impacts on every area of business in every sector. It is integral to the management and operation of a company and its systems, processes and data; delivering products and services; and engaging with customers and creating new business models. The emergence of technologies including blockchain, big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing have opened up further opportunities. But this increasing reliance on technology and the novel legal questions raised by new technologies can give rise to complex disputes across multiple jurisdictions. In 2022, we saw an increasing number of tech disputes in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region focusing on cryptoassets, data breaches and the use of AI. We expect this trend to continue in 2023.

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Unilateral option clauses are a common feature in many transaction documents. A unilateral option clause grants one party the exclusive right to decide between arbitration or litigation to resolve a dispute. This means a party can choose the forum for their dispute at the time the dispute arises, rather than at the time of negotiating the agreement.

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This document captures key elements of the discussion on Doing Business in Africa held at the Waldorf Astoria in Dubai on November 26, 2019: financing projects, accessing liquidity and finding the right partner in a competitive market place.

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This survey provides information about initial public offerings (IPOs) of equity securities by companies in the health care sector in 2019.

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This jargon buster is designed to provide an overview of key legal terms used when doing business in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and in its various free zones. It has been limited to general definitions that are of most interest.

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