Deal-making in the Asia Pacific region continues to gain momentum from its successful run in 2018. Despite regulatory headwinds and macroeconomic uncertainties, cross-border M&A within Asia has remained strong, with a number of big-ticket transactions being announced. Meanwhile, new regulatory initiatives such as the Greater Bay Area (GBA), is driving renewed investor interest into the region.

Welcome to the Sovereign Asia Focus newsletter keeping you up-to-date with news and views from around this burgeoning region – Hong Kong and Singapore, in particular, where we have long-established offices.

Since 1992, Australia has benefitted from uninterrupted annual economic growth.

The age of digital transformation and the approach of Industry 4.0 designed to accelerate the fourth industrial revolution open up opportunities in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT). The run towards digital business models, the collaboration with startups and the development of new innovation driver models has also impacted large European companies. Here you can read about why big firms suddenly place...

The Italian coworking provider Talent Garden officially opened its location in Vienna at the end of March.

In the lead up to the local elections on March 31, 2019, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held public meetings throughout Turkey, where he inaugurated a number of infrastructure investments and heralded new ones in the pipeline.

Greek wines have been undergoing a quiet revolution as increasingly innovative and sophisticated Greek winemakers have focused on quality production and overseas markets, translating into growing foreign sales.

THE European Union (EU) has released nearly US$4 million in emergency aid to assist victims of Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, with the United Nations (UN) saying the disaster may be the worst ever to strike the southern hemisphere.

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It’s been a rough few years for the political class in Latin America. To be sure, politicians are mistrusted all over the world, according to a GfK poll, but no region is more skeptical than Latin America when it comes to trusting their political leaders. This is a problem for foreign investors.