Thought Leadership

Takashi Toyokawa examines fundraising and exit conditions in Japan and Southeast Asia, from concentrated capital to cross-border M&A and liquidity.

The tools have never been more capable, or the work faster to produce. So why aren’t legal bills falling, and why, for some clients, are they beginning to rise? Authored by: Mason Gregory, Marcus Wolter and Lukas Kratochvil Ask a general counsel what artificial intelligence has done to their legal spend, and you will rarely hear the answer the technology seemed to promise. The tools are remarkable. Leaving aside questions of accuracy, a first draft that once took a junior ass

Explore how Singapore's VCC regime enables continuation vehicles and the active management of stranded corporate minority portfolios to unlock value and improve liquidity.

Getting to Know Our Funds Team

Most fund review briefs land the same way. A large document package, a tight timeline, and an investment committee that needs clear answers before it will approve the commitment. The question is not whether the documents can be read. It is whether the lawyers reading them are focusing on what is key for your investment decision or just flag everything as a risk. That distinction is what our fund review practice is built around. What we bring to the work Our team has advised

By Marcus Wolter Everyone agrees that intellectual property drives enterprise value. That claim is easy to make in a pitch deck or an earnings call. It is much harder to defend across a negotiating table, where “valuable IP” stops being a slogan and becomes a number- and that number is rarely obvious. A patent that has never been tested in court, a brand that does not travel cleanly across the jurisdictions where the buyer actually operates, an R&D line item that may or may n