Welcome to the ninth edition of Global asset management quarterly. This publication highlights key developments that will be of interest to and affect our asset management clients, including market trends and developments in tax and buy-side regulation globally. Click here for more

Welcome to the eighth edition of Global asset management quarterly. This publication highlights key developments that will be of interest to and affect our asset management clients, including market trends and developments in tax and buy-side regulation globally. Click here for more.

Welcome to issue 9 of Norton Rose Fulbright’s International arbitration report. In this issue, we feature the exciting topic of innovation and disruption in international arbitration. We review the procedural and technological advances that are, or soon will be, changing international arbitration and dispute resolution more generally. Our lawyers track the global trends, risks and opportunities in this changing landscape. In our jargon-busting guide, we outline the most-hyped legal technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts.

Investors continue to be drawn to the continent of Africa. The region’s abundant natural resources, strong renewable energy market and volume of infrastructure projects more than justify this level of investor interest. A year ago we launched Inside Africa: a repository for knowledge gained through on-the-ground experience in more than 45 jurisdictions. This site is led by a dedicated team of lawyers, all of them working on Africa-related transactions. Over the past year Inside Africa has been accessed nearly 50,000 times.

On January 11th 2017, the Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo adopted a new law substantially limiting subcontracting activities to companies (i) incorporated in DRC, (ii) with a Congolese share capital and (iii) “promoted” by Congolese. Its entry into force is still subject to Presidential action. Click here for more.

Le changement de régime de l'OHADA (l’Organisation sur l'harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires) relatif au droit des sociétés commerciales et du groupement d’intérêt économique a attiré beaucoup de commentaires des praticiens. Read more. (Subscription required.)

OHADA (the supranational organisation for harmonising laws across French speaking Africa) introduced wide–ranging changes to company law which attracted much commentary from practitioners. Read more. (Subscription required.)

Since 24 December 2015, the 17 African Member States of the organisation for the harmonisation of business law in Africa (OHADA) have benefited from modernised, streamlined collective proceedings designed to preserve viable companies, enhance predictability and maximise recoveries for creditors. Largely inspired by French law, the reforms create a new preventive proceeding, introduce a new money privilege, clarify existing legal provisions and provide for the cross-border recognition of insolvency proceedings.

In October, Junior John Ngulube – CEO of Munich Reinsurance Company of Africa – joined Norton Rose Fulbright lawyers to discuss the complexity of doing business across Africa. They came up with a number of approaches to proactive dispute resolution including the application of Ubuntu, explored in conversation with Raj Karia before the event and available here on a short film.

Cross-border insolvency law primarily deals with situations where an insolvency procedure is initiated in one jurisdiction, in relation the property of a debtor who is situated in another jurisdiction. 1 The law of insolvency on the one hand, and the conflict of laws on the other, (Private International law) must be considered.