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  • Paul Boltz Serena Tan Li Chen In Australia, DLA PIPER announced that it would be shutting its office in Canberra as part of a wider strategy to close down less profitable locations. The move follows similar closures in Berlin and Tbilisi, and leaves the firm with four offices across Australia in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.
  • The recent news of Puerto Rico's default was a long time coming – it borrowed too much and for too long, and ended up being unable to repay some nearly $70 billion to its numerous creditors.
  • Following months of a political vacuum at the top of South Korea's political chain, the world's 11th economy has elected a human rights lawyer-turned-politician candidate to head a country increasingly resentful towards the chaebol, or family-owned conglomerates. Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party of Korea, who served as chief of staff to the late president Roh Moo-hyun, has been widely touted as the first liberal president in South Korea after nine years of conservative rule.
  • Robert Lighthizer was sworn in as the next US trade representative in May, sounding the starting gun for the long awaited renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The 1994 agreement created a trilateral trade bloc in North America consisting of Canada, Mexico and the US. It has been hotly disputed since inception: while GE backed Nafta and threw its weight behind Mexico, senator Bernie Sanders has been a fierce adversary for more than two decades.
  • First of many IRB InvIT’s IPO was the first in India to test Sebi’s guidelines on the classification of a trust
  • Sponsored by Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie
    Uzoma Azikiwe and Festus Onyia of UUBO review the Nigerian courts’ approach to foreign jurisdiction clauses in commercial contracts
  • Sponsored by Clifford Chance
    Itır Sevim-Çiftçi and Kemal Aksel of Yegin Ciftci Attorney Partnership explore the main principles governing acquisitions in Turkey
  • Mobeen Rana, partner at MR Legal Inn, examines the structure of the international arbitration laws in Pakistan and the attitude of the local courts in interpreting them
  • The Brazilian government has been making concerted efforts to eliminate red tape and generally improve the country's business environment. A new package of measures aims to eliminate bureaucratic procedures to reduce the so-called Brazilian cost - the set of structural and economic difficulties that make doing business in Brazil so expensive. The new rules simplify legal requirements for the creation of security interests in Brazil and improve institutional and legal stability.
  • Sponsored by ELIG Gürkaynak Attorneys-at-Law
    Gönenç Gürkaynak and Öznur İnanılır of ELIG, Attorneys-at-Law assess the impact of recent changes made to Turkey’s competition law framework