The Beijing Arbitration Commission/Beijing International Arbitration Center (BAC/BIAC) is pleased to support the fourth session of Maxwell Conversations, titled “Duties of International Arbitrators”.

Oman’s tax landscape is changing rapidly. In 2019, excise tax was implemented in Oman.

The Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (“DICA”) under the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations issued three notifications, namely, Notifications 58/2022, 59/2022, and 64/2022 in April 2022 (“Notifications”). As per the Notifications, 300 companies incorporated under the Myanmar Companies Law 2017 (“MCL”) which failed to submit their annual returns (“AR”) within the prescribed time period were struck off this...

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In one of the largest judgements issued by the DIFC Courts, the Court has granted Immediate Judgment to nine banks following the failure by the borrower and eight guarantors to re-pay AED1.9 billion syndicated conventional and Islamic facilities (and other failures).

The company began operating in Chile following its acquisition of the Coya and Pangal centennial hydroelectric plants, located in the Alto Cachapoal area of the O’Higgins Region, 130 kilometers from the capital, Santiago.

Panama, April 28, 2022. Morgan & Morgan Legal advised Orla Mining Ltd., as borrower and Minera Cerro Quema, S.A., as guarantor with respect to a secured credit facility of US$150 million (the “Credit Facility”). The Credit Facility includes a US$100 million term facility and a US$50 million revolving facility through a syndicate of lenders composed of The Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The...

Last April 5, 2022, YCP Solidiance and DFDL, a leading international law firm, presented “Keys to Successful M&A in Southeast Asia” a live webinar which addressed challenges international investors may face when striking M&A deals in the dynamic Southeast Asian market.

Decision No.1 of the QCB Governor on the procedures for regulating the moveable assets security register (the “Regulations”) was issued on the 19th of April 2022 and is now effective. The Regulations have been issued pursuant to Article 6 of Law No. 6 of 2021 (the “Moveable Assets Security Law”) and represents a shift to an electronic system for the registration of security over moveable assets.

Amid a national push for net-zero emissions by 2060 and the growing appetite of international investors, China's green bond market is headed for another busy year, after reaching a new high in 2021, and surpassing its previous record of US$56.18 billion in 2019.