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Australia continues to be the destination of a significant volume of foreign direct investment, and has been ranked within the top 10 most attractive locations for foreign investment globally. Foreign investment in Australia is governed by a complex combination...

Welcome to our monthly roundup of news and legal developments from the Australian energy and resources sector. Each month, we cover news from around the country, including new legislation, commercial developments and judgments affecting the industry. &n...

The Myanmar Government has implemented the country’s 2012 Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) with two Notifications (together referred to here as “the Rules”), creating a practical framework to match the Government’s policy of...

Clifford Chance is advising Sorouh Real Estate PJSC on its proposed merger with Aldar Properties PJSC, terms of which were agreed by their respective boards on 20 January 2013. The merger, which has been unanimously recommended to shareholders, will create the...

Clifford Chance and Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm advised Mondelēz International on a joint venture with Olayan Group and Khalifa Algosaibi Group to launch a distribution joint venture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Mondelēz International is the largest...

Recent years have seen acquisitions become a common element of any growth strategy for multinationals engaged in China's pharmaceutical market.  At least half of the top 10 multinationals in China appear to be actively pursuing one or more targets with...

As in many other European countries, M&A transactions in the Netherlands are subject to notification and consultation requirements towards employee representative bodies in the form of works councils and trade unions. The requirement that these procedures...

The New Mining Law was expected to be passed by Parliament this year. However, considering the timing and the apparent embryonic stage of the last official draft of the New Mining Law there is a possibility that it will suffer further changes in the months ahead...

The international law firm Clifford Chance advised Mercuria Energy Asset Management B.V. (“MEAM”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Group Limited (“Mercuria”), on forming a new international joint venture in liquid bulk storage with Sinomart KTS Development...

Ninette Dodoo and Angie Ng provide an overview of MOFCOM’s three conditional clearance decisions in the IT sector, considers MOFCOM’s approach to horizontal and nonhorizontal mergers in this sector, and draws out some of the implications for future IT mergers...