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July 10, 2014 | International Edition

The American Lawyer Chooses 2014 Global Legal Award Winners

The American Lawyer unveils the 36 winners of its second annual Global Legal Awards. Four grand prizewinners—in Global M&A, Global Finance, Global Disputes and Global Citizenship—will be announced at the awards dinner on Sept. 15 at Gotham Hall in New York City.
9 minute read
July 09, 2014 | International Edition

Clifford Chance, DLA Piper Name New Korea Chiefs

Counsel Thomas Walsh is stepping in as chief representative for the Magic Circle firm, while corporate partner Daniel Kim assumes the role at DLA Piper.
2 minute read
July 07, 2014 | International Edition

Davis Polk's Big Bet in Hong Kong

The Wall Street firm has assembled a dream team, with an eye on China's rising corporate elite. Is the market ready?
15 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

Taking the Fight to Europe

New York's Schulte Roth sees opportunity advising activist investors as they cross the Atlantic. But lawyers on the defense side are gearing up.
10 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

The Bribery Act In Action

Three years after much-heralded changes to the United Kingdom's Bribery Act took effect, the U.K. government has secured just three convictions under the revised act.
4 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

The New Immigrants

When London-based AstraZeneca rejected Pfizer Inc.'s $119 billion takeover offer in late May, it put the kibosh on the U.S. drug-maker's attempt to create the largest pharmaceutical company in the world—and also to slash its corporate income tax bill.
4 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

Trading Places

Some Anglo-American firms have started touting Old Glory over the Union Jack in Asia.
4 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

Hunkering Down in Kiev

It has been quiet at the office, though. Amid the political upheaval and fears of a Russian invasion that followed the February protests, work has dried up for Dentons and other firms in Kiev, lawyers say. "Transactional work is completely dead. Law firms are barely surviving. There are no new clients," says Alex Frishberg, a Ukraine-born American lawyer who left Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in 1991 to open up the first foreign registered law office in Kiev. But Rabij and other law firm leaders are taking a wait-and-see approach, pinning their hopes on a potential uptick in Western investment.
5 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

A Change Of Venue?

A proposed E.U.-U.S. trade treaty could mean more international arbitration. That's one reason many Europeans oppose it.
11 minute read
July 01, 2014 | International Edition

Myanmar's Moment?

With its rich natural resources and recent political and economic reforms, Myanmar has become one of Asia's "it" destinations for law firms. But will the widely anticipated boom in foreign investment actually follow?
12 minute read

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