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A survey of regional industry participants by AsianInvestor and Clifford Chance highlights investment flows toward developing countries, flags the prospect of unpreparedness to Western regulation and explores attitudes toward the Hong Kong-Singapore rivalry.

Designing a corporate anti-corruption compliance program for companies operating in Asia Pacific sometimes feels like trying to fit a round hole around a square peg. No amount of pounding will smooth the edges off a thousand years of guanxi. Fortunately, perhaps...

Transparency International’s recently released Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 reveals important new data for companies operating in Asia Pacific. There is some improvement and some backsliding amongst the countries reviewed, but with only one exception,...

In a recently released survey of asset management professionals conducted by Clifford Chance and AsianInvestor, three key themes emerged. Asian investors are diversifying away from equities, the marked decline of Europe as a source of assets and as an investment...

Not infrequently, our introduction of the concept of "Tone from the Top" commitment to compliance has been met with open-mouthed astonishment and, in some cases, suspicion or even rejection by Asia Pacific managers and C-Suite executives.  Management...

This month, Transparency International (TI) released its 2011 Bribe Payer's Index (BPI). Companies seeking to accurately assess the risk of doing business in Asia Pacific or with a partner from the Asia Pacific Region should incorporate this index in their...

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has announced that counsel Brian Cassidy has received preliminary approval today as a Foreign Legal Consultant from the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Justice, marking significant progress in the firm's application...

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance is one of the first foreign law firms to obtain approval to open an office in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The country's Ministry of Justice approved the application today. The firm's licence to practise is still subject...

The Asia Pacific region remained a hotspot for US anti-corruption enforcement authorities in 2012. Six of the twelve corporate Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) settlement agreements in the past year involved business operations in that region. In addition...

The purpose of this handbook is to provide an overview of the anti-corruption regimes in Asia Pacific. Each section features the key pieces of legislation and highlights how businesses operating in these countries should best deal with anti-corruption ...