A rising tide of regulation is driving demand for in-house expertise, with more insider-trading cases tipped in Japan, for instance, as a result of expected rule tightening.
Kenneth Cote, Managing Partner, Hong Kong and China at Sidley Austin Brown & Wood discusses the vagaries and difficulties of the regional legal market.
In its effort to blame New World Development for the breakdown of plans to take a stake in the company''s telephone business, Davnet of Australia may have stirred up more trouble than it bargained for.