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Legal Market Report 2023
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Hard Knocks

88 Law Firms provide our Annual State of the Legal Market Report for 2022
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Legal AI’d

Sharyn Ch’ang, PwC’s Asia-Pacific NewLaw director, depicts a future where AI integrates with the legal profession
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Smart Moves

Senior practitioners offer tips for businesses to tackle trending issues
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General counsels Key Qualities Law Firms
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The X Factor

Amid strategic shifts, general counsel are reviewing law firm relationships and prioritising selection factors
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Broadening your counsel

GCs working across borders discuss the value of peer networking and exchanges
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Power moves

Partners at Chinese and international law firms analyse changes under the new registration-based listing regime as the momentum shifts on going public
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Look before you leap

The GC of a large state-owned enterprise outlines how companies should assess country-specific risks during cross-border investment
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Shaking off the rust

Northeastern China’s legal market eyes new fronts for growth and reflects on how to shake off the rust
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The future is?

Senior in-house counsel and practitioners dissect their real-use arsenals of legaltech including AI
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In-house Insights

Don’t settle, be nimble

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Artistic inspirations for legal professionals in Chinavideo
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Law imitates art

Where do the legal elite draw inspiration from outside of work?
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Wang Kan Interviewvideo
In-house Insights

Insights for Chinese companies protecting brands overseas

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ChatGPT role in the legal profession
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ChatGPT and legal

Legal head at a crypto firm discusses how the legal profession should handle its relationship with ChatGPT
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In-house Insights

Call to action

Case study: How Junzheng Logistics removed itself from US sanction list
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Best Law Firms in China 2023
Market watch

China Business Law Awards 2023

China Business Law Journal reveals its top performing law firms of 2022
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China's ESG regulatory moves
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Force of nature

With rapidly escalating ESG awareness and evolving policies, China is embracing a robust wave of green investment
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China IP case study: How Mango Excellent Media protects its copyright overseas

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In-house Counsel Awards 2023 revealed

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Four seas

China IP case study: How BGI Genomics protects its biomedical & life sciences overseas

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China IP case study: How Hisense protects its appliances and electronics overseas

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Four seas

China IP case study: How Nio protects its electric vehicles overseas

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The threshold of change

Big benefits from progressive IP protection but tech advances bring fresh challenges
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In-house Insights

Safety first

Dajia counsel on new risks in security provision regulation
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Cityscape

Blue ocean tides

With the advantages brought by the Third Circuit Court waning, Jiangsu law firms are seeking new avenues to maintain a market position in line with the province’s economic dominance
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Top client turn-offs
Cover story

The hit list

Survey reveals pet peeves of in-house counsel across Asia for law firm services, and the growing importance of legaltech
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In-house Insights

Calculated Risks

Aaron Shao, Abbott’s Greater China legal head, unpacks the role of counsel in the critical task of risk assessment and offers advice and strategies on how to excel in this challenging job
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Calm resilience

GCs and senior in-house counsel predict trends for the year ahead and share developments in various sectors, regulatory updates and their management strategies
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Market watch

Rising Stars 2023

100 young elite lawyers for China market
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Best-laid plans

The Chinese co-chair of IBA’s antitrust section talks about her ambition to broaden the horizons for the country's lawyers in the competition arena
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On the money

How are top law firms strategising their capital market fee structures?
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China bankruptcy regime updates
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Time for plan B?

Senior bankruptcy practitioners review the current regime and share innovative repayment plans for rescuing distressed companies
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China Deals of the year 2022
Market watch

Deals of the year 2022

The most exciting China-related legal transactions and disputes of 2022
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Fees to please: Flexible and innovative fee structure for Hong Kong arbitration

Former justice head explains HK’s new third party funding regime for arbitration
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Taking the plunge

As global uncertainty disrupts the legal workforce, Asian law firms see attrition as young lawyers switch to in-house and other lanes
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Going the distance

Yiru Sun, the new senior partner of Hylands Law Firm, shares unique insights from her years of practice, research results and future plans to continue developing in the capital markets field
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Cityscape

Success stress

Stressful competition behind the hustle of Guangdong’s legal landscape
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The A-List 2022

After thorough editorial survey and research, China Business Law Journal presents the elite lawyers in China’s legal market
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Crisis innovation
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Crisis innovation

China’s judicial system embraces procedural and tech upgrades amid a surge in cross-border disputes
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China arbitration evolution
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Long roots, strong branches

Top arbitration institutions examine the evolution of the sector in China
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Keymasters

General counsel hold the keys to unlocking sound investment opportunities in troubled times
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Surviving the deluge

George W Russell asks legal experts how clients can draw on experience from damage control practice around the globe
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In-house Insights

Building compliance culture

Du Jin, general counsel and assistant president at Shenzhen-listed Hytera Communications, offers some insights
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In-house Insights

Are you available?

Under China’s new data regulatory framework, how should companies use publicly available personal information in a compliant manner?
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Moving on up

Mariel Dimsey tells us about her new role and plans to enhance the city’s reputation as a leading dispute resolution hub
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Rebuilding the faith, Michael Zhang
In-house Insights

Rebuilding the faith

Compliance chief plots your survival in property sector
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Counting blessings

We reveal revenues and expansion plans of leading law firms in our annual survey
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Eyes forward
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Eyes forward

The leaders of international and domestic firms in China have their eyes firmly on the prizes of the future
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards) 2022

We reveal the regional winners of China Business Law Awards 2022
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Vantage Point

Steering the ESG shift

ACC survey affirms that GCs are taking on a more proactive role in the ESG evolution
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Within the epicentre
In-house Insights

Within the epicentre

China’s legal teams demonstrate indispensable value
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Bright future
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Bright future

Why the new Futures and Derivatives Law is a boost for China towards aligning with international practice?
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Trade route revival

China explores resource investments in Central Asia and the Greater Middle East
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Markets of choice

Chinese companies are finding both challenges and opportunities amid shakeups in capital markets at home and abroad
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In-house Insights

Matching the pieces

Tupperware legal director breaks down effective liaison with lawyers
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Watching the watchers
Cover story

Watching the watchers

Tough registration system has capital market gatekeepers under microscope
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In-house specialty

Outstanding in-house counsels' skills for being top
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Ethics for AI

Cloudwalk CLO gives his insights into status of AI ethics
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards 2022

China Business Law Journal reveals the law firms that have excelled in the past year
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Insight Palette

What does it take to be a top lawyer?

We asked some of our elite A-list lawyers to provide us with keywords that others might use to rise to the top of their game
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Market watch

In-house Counsel Awards revealed

After months of intensive market surveys and research, China Business Law Journal's editorial team unveils our In-house Counsel Award winners
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The art of bridge-building
In-house Insights

The art of bridge-building

Huarui Bank's counsel reveals how to work with external lawyers
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Towards the light
Cover story

Towards the light

Easing of regulations on offshore listing brings hope for an end to a long-running Sino-US dispute
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Next-gen IP protection
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Next-gen IP protection

Law firm views on IP and data protection in a tech-centric era
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In-house Insights

Step up your legal game

Top GC reveals how to successfully apply project management
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Unchartered frontiers
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Unchartered frontiers

Blockchain platform founder analyses NFT realities in China
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When-worlds-collide
Cover story

When worlds collide

By Edward Chin
Will efforts to recognise and enforce foreign judgments in China overcome the clashes of the past?
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Cover story

Constant calibration

Top corporate legal minds explain how they are assessing and adjusting their annual development strategies in these uncertain times
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DAOism: a new kind of faith
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DAOism: a new kind of faith

By Andrew Godwin
Decentralised autonomous organisations: Are we AI-aware?
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Market watch

Rising Stars 2022

80 young elite lawyers for China market
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Needs of the many
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Needs of the many

What will common prosperity initiative mean for enterprises?
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Hard talk

Asian in-house counsel speak their minds on law firms
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In-house Insights

Data crunch time

Sina Group’s GC unpacks core issues of data compliance
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Market watch

Deals of the year 2021

We look back at the most significant transactions and disputes of last year
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In-house Insights

Between rocks and hard places

Managing conflicting cross-border data access requests
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NFTs and the IP Conundrum

Digitally fluent GC shares NFT-related legal dilemmas
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Refining the rescue

How far is China from completing its restructuring and insolvency regime?
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Market watch

The A-List 2021

We reveal our 200 elite lawyers from PRC and foreign law firms
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Market watch

Priced to please

By Luna Jin
Our annual billing rates survey reveals Chinese law firms’ fees
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An inconvenient moment of truth

By Vandana Chatlani
How accountable should lawyers be for our climate woes?
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Cityscape

Stepping up

By Avery Chen
Senior lawyers from local and national firms analyse service demand and competition in Guangzhou’s legal market
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Cover story

Burning ambition

By Luna Jin
Can China's desire to be a truly global dispute resolution centre be realised?
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In-house Insights

Creative defences

Legal director of Huayi Brothers shares IP protection tips under new law
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Putting zip in your Zoom

By John Miers
Need to spice up your Zoom? Communications expert John Miers shares tips and tricks for effective online presentations
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Finding the finance

ABS market seeks alternative financing avenues
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New frontiers

As Chinese financial markets become more sophisticated, companies are eyeing new possibilities to unlock value
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Four seas

Past the pit stop

Challenges to overcome in reinvigorating China’s outbound investment
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Cover story

Sea change

Regulatory wave heightens personal data compliance requirements for internet platforms
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Four seas

ICC clearly

ICC Court’s new president Claudia Salomon discusses her role and the future landscape of dispute resolution in Asia
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Testing the wind

Law firms stress the importance of compliance and risk management for reshaping business
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Ups & downs

Our annual legal market survey takes financial snapshot of Chinese law firms
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By the numbers

ACC's global survey maps the changing roles of in-house counsel
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In-house Insights

Compliance anxiety

In-house leaders reveal how to keep up with tectonic regulatory shifts
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Four seas

Buckle up

CRRC’s top counsel explains how to ensure overseas compliance
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Cover story

Open sesame

China woos world with asset management riches
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Gender in justice

Women lawyers across Asia share their personal stories of success, strategy and struggle for a more inclusive legal profession
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Cityscape

Zhejiang in a nutshell

Breaking into Zhejiang’s hot legal market is a tough nut to crack for national law firms as the locals hold the advantage
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Market watch

Lawyering 2.0

Technology adoption among established law firms has for ages been a slow ascent, but things are different in China. Legal tech companies here are leading innovation and are taking a more direct and homegrown approach than their global peers
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The taming of tech
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The taming of tech

The golden days of unfettered growth for China's homegrown tech companies could be coming to an end as regulators speed up data-oriented reforms. What are the legal pitfalls and the hefty consequences, and who will be most affected?
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In-house Insights

GC confidential

What qualities do effective general counsel need to be assets to their companies? We asked two prominent GCs for their candia personal views on where you need to be to have your legal department working at optimum for your company and its people
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Cover story

Star struck

Through rolling reforms including the stellar success of the Star Market, mainland capital markets are soaring skyward, even as the trend of US IPOs maintains momentum. So, what is the right listing location for your company?
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards) 2021

We reveal the regional winners of our China Business Law Awards
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Continual vigilance

Controlling legal risk goes beyond the legal department, and in-house counsel need a pragmatic approach, without letting perfection be the enemy of progress. Prominent counsel Peter Zhang offers advice from his decades of experience 
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Cover story

Market SPACulation

Will Asia offer alternative forums for China’s current SPAC boom as the US loses its appetite?
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In-house Insights

Pirate hunters

Cognex Asia in-house counsel reveal how they hunt the pirates of their high-quality software products
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards 2021

China Business Law Awards 2021: We reveal which law firms excelled with the strongest performances during the most challenging year by offering their clients sophisticated and innovative legal solutions
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In-house Insights

How to be a successful in-house counsel

In-house award winners share must-have skills for successful GCs
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Cityscape

Jiangsu on song

How Jiangsu province is optimising its strengths and establishing a dominant position in east China’s legal market
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Tight times

Chinese law firms reveal their fees in our exclusive billing rates survey, shedding light on how reduced corporate budgets have affected the cost of legal services
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Learning on the fly

Minsheng Financial Leasing’s senior counsel, Fiona Sun, shares how business aviation has become a silver lining in the hard-hit sector
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Action plan

Five top in-house counsel share expectations for the new year, and reveal how they helped steady their company ships during the 2020 storm
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Market watch

In-house Counsel Awards 2020

China Business Law Journal reveals the country’s leading in-house lawyers and corporate legal teams
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Solving the IP puzzle

The blueprint for China’s top-down intellectual property (IP) reforms includes piecing together major judicial and legislative change, solving problems that have affected enterprises for decades. But do the changes go far enough?
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Rising Stars 2021

CBLJ presents a list of the country’s top up-and-coming legal talent
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How to be a top lawyer

Top 10 habits of most successful lawyers in China
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Vantage Point

Pathfinder

Gerard Sanders moves on from his GC role at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and shares his formative work with the bank, and the past year’s challenges
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Market watch

Deals of the year 2020

Deals of the Year: Highlighting the China-related transactions and cases that stood out in 2021. We revisit decisive moments for the legal market in the past year based on extensive editorial research
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Finding middle ground

Singapore Mediation Centre chief Ban Jiun Ean offers his insights
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IP profit v human loss

With covid-19 vaccines rolling out, the question of compulsory licensing weighs up IPR profit and protection against public health and access
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Peaking on tech

Southwest China’s high-tech bet draws national law firms
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Cover story

The A-List 2020

The A-List: Who are the elite lawyers being recognised by clients for China-related business?
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After thorough editorial survey and research, China Business Law Journal presents the elite lawyers in China’s legal market

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CORRESPONDENTS

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Brand owner bankrupt, how does a franchisee claim performance bond?

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Opportunities, focus areas for Chinese companies listing in US

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FEATURES

Legal Market Report 2023

Hard Knocks

88 Law Firms provide our Annual State of the Legal Market Report for 2022

All illustrations for this feature have been created by AI

Legal AI’d

Sharyn Ch’ang, PwC’s Asia-Pacific NewLaw director, depicts a future where AI integrates with the legal profession

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Smart Moves

Senior practitioners offer tips for businesses to tackle trending issues

PRACTITIONERS' PERSPECTIVES

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Vanke v Wanda: controversy over valuation of preserved shares

By Gong Jiong, Liang Gao Law Firm
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Compliant ESG systems for state-owned enterprises

By Li Huiwen and Song Jia, Guantao Law Firm
iQiyi’s rights protection action against Douyin

iQiyi v Douyin: the long and short of a content battle

By Sun Liqing and Qiu Zhengtan, Ronly & Tenwen Partners

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