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Three firms act on TikTok’s USD1.5bn Indonesian revival
Skadden, Widyawan & Partners and Davis Polk are advising on TikTok’s strategic move to re-establish its presence in the Indonesian e-commerce market via a USD1.5 billion acquisition of GoTo’s online shopping platform Tokopedia.
Skadden’s head...
Is the clock ticking for TikTok in India?
Chinese internet companies need to be more careful in planning their legal strategies for India
In 2018, about 44 out of the top 100 most downloaded internet applications in India were from Chinese developers. The...
Haiwen & Partners hires private equity partner Benran Huang
Haiwen & Partners has hired another Zhao Sheng Law Firm partner, Benran Huang, following the recent addition of Eric Liu, formerly the managing partner at the Linklaters’ China joint operation.
Private equity and M&A specialist...
Latest Business Law Digest Updates 2021-2023
November - December 2023
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E-commerce in sights of trade competition watchdog
Thailand’s Trade Competition Commission has unveiled its 2024 agenda, with efforts to be concentrated on overseeing competition, unfair trading practices, and antitrust policies in e-commerce...
Stephen Bennett- Hunton Andrews Kurth – A-List: Thailand 2023
The A-List: Thailand Top 100 Lawyers 2023
Stephen Bennett
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Contact
Tel: +66 2 645 88 11
Email: bennetts@huntonak.com
Practice areas
Corporate/M&A; capital markets; fintech, technology media and telecommunication
Introduction
Resident in Thailand since 1994, Bennett is head of the Asia...
The A-List: Thailand’s Top 100 Lawyers 2023
Thailand's Top 100 Lawyers 2023
Based on research conducted by Asia Business Law Journal, the following are Thailand's Top 100 Lawyers. Biographies and contact details, where provided, were written by the lawyers themselves and have...
Commercialisation of personality rights and how to protect them
Driven by fan base popularity, live-streaming, short videos and other trending new business forms in the fast developing age of the internet economy have proven prosperous for the entertainment industry. For public figures, the...
iQiyi v Douyin: the long and short of a content battle
iQiyi, one of China’s mainstream video streaming services equivalent to Netflix, has sued Douyin, China's version of TikTok known for its 15-second short videos, for infringements before many courts across the country in a...
Indian Law Firm Awards 2023
Recognising and rewarding exceptional legal work. Katherine Abraham reports
India’s legal industry is experiencing a surge in activity, driven by increased deal-flow and record-breaking IPOs. While the most recognised law firms continue to dominate on...
China IP case study: How Mango Excellent Media protects its copyright overseas
Who’s the Murderer was the first Chinese celebrity whodunit variety show launched by Mango TV, in 2016, and has run for eight straight seasons. Since the seventh season, it has been joined by Who’s the Murderer...
The threshold of change
Home-grown and foreign companies in China are both benefiting from the country’s progressive legislative reforms in intellectual property protection. But they also face new challenges as rapid technological advancements usher in a new era....
Record RMB32.4m over Douyin copyright breach points to trend
A lawyer believes courts will award higher compensation following the record RMB32.4 million (USD4.6 million) China’s version of TikTok must pay for contributory copyright infringement of Tencent Video’s popular TV show, The Worm Valley.
On...
Stephen Bennett- Hunton Andrews Kurth – A-List: Thailand 2022
The A-List: Thailand Top 100 Lawyers 2022
Stephen Bennett
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Contact
Tel: +66 2 645 88 11
Email: bennetts@huntonak.com
Practice areas
Corporate/M&A; capital markets; fintech; energy and infrastructure; technology media & telecommunication
Introduction
Resident in Thailand since 1994, Stephen Bennett is...
The A-List: Thailand’s Top 100 Lawyers 2022
Based on research conducted by Asia Business Law Journal, the following are Thailand's Top 100 Lawyers. Biographies and contact details, where provided, were written by the lawyers themselves and have not been independently verified.
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CBLJ商法 In-house Counsel Awards 2021: Individual Awards
Team AwardsIndividual Awards
Based on research conducted by China Business Law Journal, the following are the winners and highly commended in-house counsel of CBLJ In-house Counsel Awards 2021-22. The awards are split into individual...
Skadden’s China head joins ByteDance as CFO
ByteDance, the parent company of Douyin and TikTok, has hired Julie Gao, a senior partner of Skadden, as its chief financial officer. The move is expected to signal the restart of ByteDance’s IPO process.
Liang...
Between rocks & hard places
In the face of data requests from law enforcement agencies, conflicting legal requirements from home country and foreign jurisdictions are putting multinational tech companies in an unprecedented dilemma. How should they respond? Pan Cong,...
Between rocks and hard places
In the face of data requests from law enforcement agencies, conflicting legal requirements from home country and foreign jurisdictions are putting multinational tech companies in an unprecedented dilemma. How should they respond? Pan Cong,...
Rise with the tide
China’s regulatory scrutiny on platform companies and data has engaged legal departments across the country and beyond to the task of swift compliance. As the new Personal Information Protection Law completes the domestic legislative...
Sea change
A wave of new regulations has heightened the data compliance requirements for internet platforms. Ke Holdings general counsel Chen Yan shares his company’s experience of adapting and evolving to fulfil the new obligations
IN THE...
Interpreting the OFAC’s reply regarding CCMCs
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the US Department of the Treasury, recently published its replies to eight frequently asked questions on how to implement Executive Order No. 13959. The order made...
Protection in paralysis
With India’s legal enforcement machinery hamstrung by lockdown, infringement activity has climbed to an all-time high. What can IP owners do to stay ahead? Vandana Chatlani reports
Producers of the gritty, gory crime thriller Mirzapur...
Toil and trouble
China’s economy is recovering from the pandemic ahead of the rest of the world, but in-house counsel now face an increasingly tense international political theatre and an enormous uptick in regulatory and compliance-related work....
IBLJ – June 2020
Volume 14, Issue 1
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Highlights:
Just virtually: Prompted by the pandemic, how are courts faring in their transition to online justice?
Non-compete clauses in M&A contracts must...
Pulling the plug
In the aftermath of the TikTok ban Mishi Choudhary, the founder of Software Freedom Law Centre (India), says the government must enact pro-privacy legislation that protects private data from tech companies, regardless of their...
Juggling act
The evolution of India’s personal data protection bill is influenced by the need to protect the interests of businesses, the government and the individual, writes Yukti Sharma
India’s journey to a personal data protection law...
Juggling act
The evolution of the personal data protection bill is influenced by the need to protect the interests of businesses, the government and the individual, writes Yukti Sharma
India’s journey to a personal data protection law...
In-depth coverage of CBLJ Forum in Shanghai
Today, Chinese enterprises engaging in cross-border business face formidable challenges. The global business environment is full of uncertainty, the geopolitical landscape is increasingly complex, and overseas laws and regulations on international business are being...
