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21 FEB 2019

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Cyril Amarchand launches India’s first legal-tech incubator 

Korea: BKL hires cap markets lawyer from Shin & Kim

IndusLaw helps India’s OYO Hotels complete $1 bln funding round

Clifford Chance loses Korea head

From the January / February Issue: #MeToo Leaving Its Mark on Employment Law

An Overview on Peer-To-Peer Lending in Indonesia [Brought to You by IABF]

From the January / February Issue: Japan Seeing a Spike in Female Lawyers as Companies Gradually Embrace Diversity

Ex-Addleshaws Asia head joins HK boutique YTL

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Dechert strengthens HK lit practice with Davis Polk hire

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Cyril Amarchand launches India’s first legal-tech incubator 

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, India’s largest law firm by headcount, has set up a legal-tech incubator called Prarambh, believed to be the country’s first.

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Korea: BKL hires cap markets lawyer from Shin & Kim

Bae, Kim & Lee, Korea’s third-largest law firm, has hired capital markets specialist Jeong-Hoon Lee as a partner in Seoul from rival Shin & Kim.

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IndusLaw helps India’s OYO Hotels complete $1 bln funding round

IndusLaw has assisted Indian hotel chain OYO in raising $1 billion from existing investors, including Japan’s Softbank Group and Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing.

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Clifford Chance loses Korea head

Kim Hyun-suk, the head of Clifford Chance’s Korea office, will soon leave the firm, marking the latest in a series of exits from the UK firm’s Seoul operation.

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From the January / February Issue: #MeToo Leaving Its Mark on Employment Law

Over a year has passed since MeToo started trending and subsequently triggered a global outpouring. In the aftermath, organizations throughout Asia have reported increased numbers of complaints about sexual misconduct in the workplace. Along with this has come more work for employment lawyers.

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An Overview on Peer-To-Peer Lending in Indonesia [Brought to You by IABF]

Two years following the enactment of Financial Service Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan/"OJK) Regulation No. 77/POJK.01/2016 of 2016 (POJK 77/2016), Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P Lending) has grown popular in Indonesia. Based on data from OJK per Oct. 2018, a total of 15,990,143,141,355 rupiah has been distributed to the borrowers in P2P Lending. It has grown 432.5% from Jan. 2018 until Oct. 2018. Until Dec. 2018, the number of P2P Lending Platform which has been registered and supervised by OJK has reached 88 companies, one of them has been given a license.

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From the January / February Issue: Japan Seeing a Spike in Female Lawyers as Companies Gradually Embrace Diversity

The number of in-house lawyers is on the rise in Japan, but more noteworthy, in a country with notoriously poor gender parity, is that the trend has been noticeably female.

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Ex-Addleshaws Asia head joins HK boutique YTL

Nigel Francis, the former head of Asia for Addleshaw Goddard, has left the UK firm to join Hong Kong-based boutique YTL as a senior consultant.

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From the January/February Issue: Fixing Japan’s Corporate Culture: The In-House Role

The recent removal and arrest of Carlos Ghosn, chairman of car maker Nissan is another corporate scandal to tarnish Japan Inc. in recent years, and once again raises fundamental questions about governance in the country. While some of the issues are deep-rooted and would require a serious change of mindset, senior in-house counsel can play their part in improving the culture going forward.

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Dechert strengthens HK lit practice with Davis Polk hire

Dechert has hired litigator Maria Sit as a partner in Hong Kong from Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she was a counsel.

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