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Areej Hamada, founder of Kuwaiti law firm Legal challenges group, looks at the bridges Kuwait has been building with its largest trading partner, China, and how it has modernised its foreign investment rules

Sidley Austin partners review implementation and enforcement actions across Europe and highlight risky areas in data protection to watch in the future

For the first time in Vietnam, a unified governmental regulation on internal audit has been promulgated through Decree 05/2019/ND-CP dated January 22 2019 (Decree 05) which came into effect on April 1 2019. Previously, only a few entities, such as credit institutions and the State Bank of Vietnam, were required to conduct an internal audit under different legal regulations. Decree 05 has added new types of entities which are required to conduct an internal audit by April 1 2021 at the latest.

Reports of private equity successes and challenges arguably stand in sharper contrast in Nigeria than in comparable emerging markets. Folake Elias-Adebowale, Ozofu ‘Latunde Ogiemudia and Christine Sijuwade of Udo Udoma Belo-Osagie examine the balancing act investors need to perfect

Prager Dreifuss lawyers Roland Böhi and Manuel Vogler explain how Swiss authorities are updating tax laws to balance a competitive regime with international standards

Izuru Goto, Yasuyuki Kuribayashi and Takashi Saito of City-Yuwa Partners introduce Japan’s new regulatory regime for virtual currencies, which is due to be in place by about April 2020

Yusuke Murakami and Hironobu Noma of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto outline opportunities and strategies for success in Japan’s emerging offshore wind market

Baker McKenzie lawyers consider how a relatively innocuous feature of corporate bonds is causing a stir following recent litigation and new regulations

Stikeman Elliott partners analyse Canada’s new takeover bid regime and its impact on Aurora’s recent hostile bid for competitor CanniMed