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Australia's need for food security is a fact, not fiction
Baker & McKenzie has launched a report, Food Security – fact or fiction? which focuses on Australia's food security and echoes calls for greater regulation in the retail sector and more transparency around foreign direct investment. Read more.
Baker & McKenzie Taipei tops 2012 Chambers & Partners Taiwan rankings
In Taiwan, we clinched the leading position in the 2012 Chambers & Partners legal directory rankings. We ranked Band 1 across nine practice areas and Band 2 in the tenth. Read more.
FinanceAsia Quotes Fred Burke (Ho Chi Minh City) and Jeremy Pitts (Tokyo) at the Asia-Pacific Meeting
Partners Fred Burke (Ho Chi Minh City) and Jeremy Pitts (Tokyo) discuss the challenges on delivering greater value to clients in the Asia Pacific amidst the challenges that beset the region. Read more.
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Merger control in China
MOFCOM, the Chinese antitrust agency responsible for merger control, has unveiled draft guidelines which will alter the way in which companies approach the need to make merger filings in China. Our lawyers discuss its implications on Chinese mergers. Read more.
Overcoming new challenges in Chinese M&A deals
Deal makers face a series of regulatory and procedural challenges when pursuing M&As in China – foreign investment approval, merger control clearance and national security review regime. Our China practice lawyers Tracy Wut and Chunfai Lui discuss ways by which foreign investors can surmount these three M&A hurdles. Read more.
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Carbon credits (consequential amendments) bill 2011
According to Baker & McKenzie lawyers, if the amendments to the Carbon Credits Bill 2011 take effect, certain carbon credits will be designated as financial products. Currently, none of the major types of carbon credits traded in Australia are considered to be financial products in and of themselves – the classification of financial product depends on the way that they are treated. Read more.
Amendments on the Clean Energy Legislative Package
In Australia, our lawyers discuss the amendments of the Clean Energy Legislative Package, which will impact industrial establishments. Read more.
Indonesia Takes the Lead in Geothermal Projects
Indonesia has arguably become the world’s leading destination for geothermal projects, thanks to the liberalization of the frameworks governing geothermal power concessions and the extension of the country’s geothermal feed in tariff regime, as outlined in Regulation No.2 of 2011 recently issued by Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mining Resources. Read more.
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The impact of the UK Bribery Act on Asian businesses
Corporate Compliance partners Gary Seib and Andrew Martin spoke with South China Morning Post and Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance to discuss the impact of the UK Bribery Act on Asian businesses and the likelihood of Asian companies facing increased burden to help their foreign partners avoid liability for bribery if they were to continue with their commercial partnerships or arrangements. Read more.
China's equivalent of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices
Revisions to Article 164 of the Criminal Law, which will be implemented on 1 May 2011, signal the unacceptability of bribery by China-based companies of foreign public officials, whether they are posted in China or overseas. Our corporate compliance lawyers discuss these new provisions and their significance to foreign investors in China. Read more.
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Structured Real Estate |
Antitrust & Competition |
Amendments to the new South Wales Home Building Act
The Home Building Amendment Act 2011 makes wide ranging changes to the Home Building Act 1989. This legal alert addresses some of those changes with important implications for the liability of developers of residential building projects. Read more.
Foreign investment in PRC properties on the rise
Since May 2007, any injection of foreign capital in foreign-invested real estate enterprises (FIREEs) must be recorded with the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM). Baker & McKenzie has been tracking FIREE recordals announced by MOFCOM, and the total number of FIREE recordals for March 2011 was 62, up from 41 in February 2011. Read more.
Thai REITs get green light. Read more.
Australian governments adopt National Alliance contracting Policy and Guidelines
Our lawyers review the National Alliance Contracting Policy and Guidelines adopted by the Australian government. It mandates a framework within which it is intended that governments will enter into relationship contracting arrangements while satisfying public standards of transparency and accountability. Read more.
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China’s court issues draft rules governing anti-monopoly civil actions
On 25 April 2011, the Supreme People's Court issued for public comments draft rules which govern civil action in relation to Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) disputes. The draft rules deal with issues such as standing of plaintiffs, burden of proof, the extent of civil liability and the statute of limitations. Our antitrust lawyers Charles Critchlow and ChunFai Lui spoke with Law 360 and discussed the impact of the new draft rules on the enforcement landscape of AML in China. Read more.
Malaysian companies prepare for Competition Law
The Competition Act, which will come into force on 1 January 2012, could have a major bearing on how businesses operate in Malaysia, especially those with currently monopolistic or oligopolistic industry positions. Antitrust partner Andre Gan spoke with The Edge Malaysia and recommended that companies need to recognize compliance as integral to business decisions and practices. Read more.
Avoid antitrust suspicions by approaching compliance holistically. Read more.
Baker & McKenzie launches Asia Pacific Competition Law Guidebook Read more.
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