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Houda Sahri, Jean-Jérôme Khodara and Nahla Djabi of Matouk Bassiouny in association with SH Avocats review the flurry of pro-investment legal developments being ushered in by Algeria’s government.

Gabon responded quickly to Covid-19, leveraging off its experience with Ebola and Cholera. Matthieu Le Roux, Olivier Bustin and Carolina Reis of Vieira de Almeida (VdA) review the results of the government’s actions and what the pandemic says about Gabon’s future economic development.

A Q&A with the Matouk Bassiouny & Hennawy team on the ability to furlough employees, reduce salaries, freeze annual raises and other key employment issues under Egyptian law in light of Covid-19.

Governments were already becoming more interventionist, but coronavirus has sped things up considerably

Former CFTC chairman Chris Giancarlo and Conrad Bahlke of Willkie Farr & Gallagher discuss Ripple and the application of US securities laws to XRP

Baker McKenzie and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas lawyers discuss dispute resolution and investment strategies amid protectionist regimes for businesses post Covid-19

As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc around the globe, its devastating impact on Thailand's economy is becoming increasingly apparent. With its borders closed to international travelers for the foreseeable future, Thailand's tourism industry, whose revenues account for more than 15% of the country's total GDP, has been largely decimated. Businesses heavily reliant on tourism have closed their doors in the thousands – and many companies who were already experiencing financial difficulties pre-Covid-19 have now been pushed over the edge into insolvency.

White & Case lawyers explain what parties in various stages of a deal need to know about the impact of coronavirus on merger reviews and timelines

On March 24 2020, the Council of Experts on the Stewardship Code, which was established by the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA), revised ’Japan’s Stewardship Code, originally published in 2014.