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  • Tianjin 2010 天津法律市场年度报告
    By Jessica Seah | Thursday, 26 August 2010

    The 17th Tianjin Trade Fair & Investment Talk gathered together hundreds of delegates in June, including state officials, business representatives and legal professionals. All participants came to discuss the economic development of Tianjin, and unravelling the impending opportunities driven by positive government policies and stimulus packages. About 940 major projects have led to an investment of nearly US$294bn in the region since 2007.
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  • Middle East 2010
    By ALB | Friday, 26 March 2010

    ALB reports from the Gulf on what the region’s recent rejuvenation means for lawyers there
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  • Korea 2010
    By ALB | Thursday, 4 February 2010

    ALB reports from Seoul on a legal services market that has recovered
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  • India 2009
    By ALB | Thursday, 12 November 2009

    More players, more sophistication
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  • China 2009
    By ALB | Thursday, 24 September 2009

    As western markets went into freefall a year ago with company collapses and banks going bust, Asia – particularly China – was being viewed as the brightest light in an otherwise overcast economic sky.
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  • Indonesia 2009 (2 comments)
    By ALB | Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    Resources and law reform are driving the Indonesian legal market and attracting investment from around Asia and the rest of the world
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  • Malaysia 2009
    By ALB | Friday, 31 July 2009

    Broadening horizons: The impending opening of the Malaysian market may not be a high priority for international law firms, but for their domestic counterparts it presents a perfect opportunity to broaden their horizons and push plans for regional expansion into overdrive
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  • Vietnam 2009
    By ALB | Tuesday, 7 July 2009

    Favourable economic indicators, booming energy and oil & gas industries, and a strong export sector are the leading lights for lawyers in Vietnam as they look for the country to fulfil its potential
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  • Singapore 2009
    By ALB | Monday, 1 June 2009

    The past 12 months alone have seen no less than nine international firms make the move to Singapore, with more tipped to open later this year. ALB looks at what we expect from some of these newcomers.
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  • Japan 2009
    By ALB | Saturday, 11 April 2009

    Is the cooperative consensus that has typified a liberalised Japanese legal market finally giving way to greater competition? ALB investigates
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  • Japan 2008
    By ALB | Thursday, 18 December 2008

    Ushinawareta junen (the lost decade) is officially over and Japanese companies have emerged cashed up and ready to plunder ailing markets across the globe. But, as ALB reports, while Japan's band of bengoshi and gaggle of gaiben are looking forward to an upswing in work, micro matters loom large on the horizon
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  • Malaysia 2008
    By ALB | Monday, 15 December 2008

    Malaysia's lawyers are doing well despite the odds - but longer-term structural reform of the local legal market is on the cards.
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  • Middle East 2008
    By ALB | Thursday, 27 November 2008

    Another five years of oil & gas revenues - this time boosted by record high prices - have created a lake of liquidity in a region that has the need, the wherewithal, the ambition and the sheer will to make things happen. Law firms have for some time been feasting on big-ticket oil & gas, project finance, infrastructure and banking & finance work. But never to the current degree, and never across so many centres of activity.
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