Co-Chair
Dinesh Dhillon

Co-Chair
David Liu

Asia Pacific Regional Forum

The Asia Pacific Forum offers fantastic opportunities to establish contact with legal experts in and outside of the region, practising in many different areas of law, and to keep abreast of legal business developments in the region.

In addition to offering an unrivalled opportunity to establish contact among lawyers within and outside the region, and with acknowledged experts on different areas of law, specialist Forum activities provide an unparalleled opportunity to keep abreast of legal business developments in the region. Members also benefit from excellent working relations with national Bars, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and LAWASIA.

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Forthcoming conferences and webinars View All Conferences

Litigation Asia Pacific Webinar Series – Navigating litigation funding in the Asia-Pacific region

06 Feb 2025 0900 - 1000 GMT

Webinar

The Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice

19 Feb 2025

Hong Kong SAR

8th IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum Biennial Conference: Vibrant Asia – Land of opportunity and promise

19 Feb - 21 Feb 2025

Hong Kong SAR

IBA Annual Litigation Forum: The future of litigation

09 Apr - 11 Apr 2025

Singapore

IBA Annual Conference Toronto 2025

02 Nov - 07 Nov 2025

Toronto , Canada

Doing Business in Asia Pacific guidebook

The Asia Pacific Regional Forum presents a comprehensive, innovative guide to doing business in the Asia Pacific, covering the jurisdictions of Australia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, The Philippines and Vietnam. 

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Publications
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News corner: China’s new Tariff Law and implementing regulation of the Law of the PRC on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests

On 26 April 2024, the Chinese State Council passed the Tariff Law of the People’s Republic of China, which came into force on 1 December 2024. The new law consolidates existing rules in different documents and certain practices in one administrative law.

Released on Jan 13, 2025

2023 Anti-Trust Law: new rules in China

After the unveiling of the revised Anti-Monopoly Law, amended on 2022 (the ‘AML Amendments’), 2023 has been a year of progressive antitrust legislation in China. A flurry of updated regulations and mechanism were published to further clarify the AML Amendments, absorbing the past enforcement experience, for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of the AML Amendments

Released on Jan 13, 2025

What you should know before the cross-border transfer of personal information in China

The Chinese data protection regime, along with extensive supplementary implementing regulations, exerts a comprehensive influence on data protection regulations with extraterritorial implications and significant impacts on companies conducting business in China, with a particular emphasis on the supervision of cross-border data transfers. Companies engaged in the processing of personal information of individuals residing within the territory of China during business operations may be subject to regulatory oversight, regardless of whether they are physically established in China.

Released on Jan 13, 2025

The changes in the registered capital system under the new Company Law

The Company Law of the People's Republic of China (the ‘Company Law’) is the fundamental legislation that governs the socialist market economy system. Since its initial publication in 1993, the Company Law has undergone five revisions or amendments. The sixth revision of the Company Law commenced in 2019. Following four discussions by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and extensive consultation with various sectors of society, the latest draft was formally reviewed and approved on 29 December 2023. It is scheduled to come into force on 1 July 2024.

Released on Jan 13, 2025

Subcommittees and other groups

The Asia Pacific Regional Forum also coordinates the activities of the following subcommittees/working groups.

  • Asia Pacific Arbitration Group

  • Asia Pacific Regional Forum Advisory Board
  • China Working Group
  • India Working Group
  • One Belt One Road Subcommittee

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