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This strong network has a longstanding reputation in the market and an extensive roster of members across Asia-Pacific. The law firm members provide clients with comprehensive coverage throughout the region and display significant ability in financial and commercial transactions, including dispute resolution, tax and antitrust. The network concentrates on facilitating cross-border transactions and providing members with high-quality international support through regular regional initiatives such as conferences, week-long management and leadership programmes and webinars. Lex Mundi Foundation is the network's notable pro bono offering for social entrepreneurs worldwide. In 2020 the network launched Equisphere, a tool designed to assist in-house counsel in tackling multi-jurisdictional legal challenges. Helena Samaha, who is based in London, is the network's president and CEO and a key contact.

Headquartered in London, this network has continued to expand its coverage of the Asia-Pacific region. It places significant emphasis on referral work and on providing members with regional and annual conferences and publications. Its focus on client services is manifested in organising client events and utilising its newly adopted online referral reporting system to ensure the quality of services. Offering a wide range of legal expertise, members of the network are committed to cooperating on cross-border mandates for clients in various industries such as gaming, fintech start-ups, agrosciences and retail. Paul Kirton of Macpherson Kelley in Australia is chair of the Asia-Pacific regional committee and a key contact.

A network that provides extensive coverage of the Asia-Pacific region with active practice teams focusing on areas including banking, investment, real estate and technology. The group arranges regional and annual meetings to encourage members to share knowledge and best practices, in addition to offering a variety of publications and online resources. The network is in close partnership with multiple information-sharing platforms and continued education service providers to supply lawyers with the most updated legal insights. Membership also functions on an individual level, allowing the membership to locate specific individual experts, as well as broader teams. Maricarmen Trujillo is the COO and a key contact for the network.

In addition to its US focus, this global network counts among its members law firms across the Asia-Pacific region with strong employment, labour relations and immigration practices. Its member firms predominantly act for employers. Lawyers are invited to join the group after a rigorous due diligence process, and it offers a wide range of networking events, regional committees and webinars on employment matters across continents. Thanks to its extensive membership, businesses can access expertise across borders from a single point of contact. Jenny Tsin of WongPartnership in Singapore is the Asia-Pacific regional chair and key contact for the network.

An extensive network of practitioners who offer cross-border support to clients with business interests throughout the Asia-Pacific region. This strong alliance aims to cultivate networking and the sharing of knowledge through regional and annual meetings. Additionally, it encourages members to form practice-specific groupings, thereby offering specific expertise across jurisdictions. The quality of its membership is ensured through peer reviews, and mentors are assigned to new members, while existing member firms build relationships, share insights and host workshops and webinars with and for each other. Peter Dernbach of Winkler Partners in Taiwan is the network's chair for the Asia-Pacific region.

Founded in 1973, the Interlex Group has a longstanding reputation as an elite legal network. The network offers comprehensive legal and business services to clients in approximately 60 countries worldwide, with 12 of these in the Asia-Pacific region. Chicago-based Lawrence B. Swibel is the network's president and key contact.

An extensive legal network of highly regarded full-service firms that provide expertise in major practice areas across Asia-Pacific. The group is composed of members selected on the quality of their commercial work and through a system of peer reviews. It holds a number of events and has several practice groups, including sports law, technology, dispute resolution and corporate law, to enhance the sharing of information. Members benefit from access to practitioners in most continents of the globe. The network offers a centralised secretariat and supporting services based in London, with Simon Rous of Ashfords LLP as a key contact.

Ius Laboris has vast global coverage, with elite member firms in over 50 jurisdictions, nine of them in the Asia-Pacific region. Members are regional experts in all areas of employment and pensions law and work closely together to provide clients with comprehensive international advice. It has a wide range of specialist expertise in areas such as data privacy, restructuring, occupational health and safety, and discrimination. Members are invited to meetings and seminars throughout the year and have access to the network's Ius Laboris University, which promotes professional development among lawyers. Based in Brussels, executive director Sam Everatt is a key contact.

With a diverse roster of members in Asia-Pacific, this alliance is committed to the sharing of information and referral work among its members. It has thorough quality controls to select new members and carries out ongoing evaluations, including regular recertification. The group organises regional meetings, webinars and other initiatives to offer lawyers insights and information on trends in their practice areas. Darcy Kishida of Kojima Law Offices in Tokyo is a vice chair of the network and a key contact.

Through referrals, the group assists clients on cross-border mandates and in accessing specialist practice area expertise. The TAG Academy provides web-based courses, seminars and international conferences, and members offer 'doing business' guides to inform clients on regulatory and other pitfalls when conducting business within particular jurisdictions. The network's Knowledge Centre keeps members up to date on the latest macro developments and their business implications. Vancouver-based Richard Attisha and Florida-based Chris Cervellera are the president of TAGLaw and its executive director respectively.

Member firms frequently collaborate to assist clients in a variety of industries, including the leisure and hospitality, technology and healthcare sectors. Referrals are tracked, and clients are regularly surveyed to ensure a consistent level of service is maintained throughout the network. Members meet regularly, and the network's yearly meeting includes an international client seminar. Andrew Parlour of Russell Kennedy in Melbourne and Ramesh Vaidyanathan of Advaya Legal in Mumbai are treasurer and president respectively and key contacts for the Asia-Pacific region.

Globalaw comprises 75 leading independent law firms operating predominantly across three regions: the Americas, Asia-Pacific including Oceania, and EMEA. The network boasts members across 13 jurisdictions in the APAC region, with expertise in M&A, dispute resolution and many other specialist areas, including securities, aviation, immigration and telecommunications. President Oliver Foerster of Huth Dietrich Hahn in Hamburg is a key contact.

This full-service network has member firms across nine Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, and biannual referral surveys ensure a high standard is maintained among member firms. Members regularly meet and cooperate, while webinar offerings and virtual networking opportunities have lately been expanded to meet the needs of present circumstances. C.K. Kwong of Sit, Fung, Kwong & Shum in Hong Kong, Selena She of Llinks Law Firm in Shanghai and Uday Singh Ahlawat of Ahlawat & Associates in New Delhi are key contacts for the APAC region.

IR Global gives access to top lawyers, accountants and financial advisers around the world. The network operates on the principle of practice area exclusivity and has ten practice area management committees to maximise results for its clients. Members also benefit from meetings organised on a regional and international basis, including the Asia/Pacific Forum, a platform for connecting various parties with interests across the APAC region. A key contact for the network is founder Thomas Wheeler, based in Amsterdam.

L&E Global is a labour and employment network with a strong international presence with members in numerous jurisdictions. Members possess a recognised regional footprint and are able to present clients with a truly international outlook. The network's quality committee seeks to ensure that both legal advice and service delivery meet its standards. Amy Zhang of Harmers Workplace Lawyers in Sydney is a member of the L&E Global board and a key contact.

This alliance has a significant presence across the Asia-Pacific region, with members in 11 jurisdictions from which clients can access advice on cross-border matters, including commercial and dispute resolution issues. New members are invited to join following referrals from existing members, and meetings are held on a biannual basis to encourage networking and the exchange of information. Resources available to members include online publications and guides to doing business. David Zou of Grandway in China, Neeraj Kumar of Dua Associates in India and Edmund Jerome Kronenburg of Bradell Brothers in Singapore are regional ambassadors.