Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights, including legislation, protected employee categories and enforcement agencies; worker representation; checks on applicants; terms of employment; rules on foreign workers; post-employment restrictive covenants; liability for acts of employees; taxation of employees; employee-created IP; data protection; business transfers; termination of employment; dispute resolution; and recent trends.

Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights, including into tax; trusts and foundations; same-sex marriages; civil unions; succession; capacity and power of attorney; immigration; and recent trends.

Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights, including an overview of the legal system; registration and recording; treatment of foreign owners and tenants and of commercial versus residential property; planning and land use; compulsory purchase or condemnation of real estate; bankruptcy and insolvency; use of investment vehicles; acquisitions and leases, including environmental considerations; financing; and recent trends. 

The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review is a practical overview of asset recovery rules and procedures across key jurisdictions worldwide. Focusing on recent developments, it examines the primary processes and limitations for following and tracing fraudulently appropriated property, with due regard to the relevant legal rights and remedies, issues surrounding seizure and evidence rules.

Quick reference guide enabling side-by-side comparison of local insights into fund management issues, including regulatory framework and authorities; regulation of fund administration; fund authorisation and licensing; territorial scope of regulations; acquiring a stake in a fund manager; restrictions on compensation and profit sharing; fund marketing, including rules on commission payments; legal vehicles available for retail funds and non-retail pooled funds; investment, borrowing ownership, management and operating restrictions; tax, asset protection, governance, reporting, issue, transfer and redemption issues; separately managed accounts; re-domiciliation of funds; listing funds; foreign investor participation rules; funds investing in derivatives; hot topics, such as treatment of strategic industries, high-frequency trading, commodity position limits, capital adequacy for investment firms and ‘shadow banking’; and other recent trends.