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LAW's members can assist you with a broad range of legal and business issues in the following areas: Corporate and Financial Transactions, Real Estate; Commercial, Intellectual Property and Information Technology, Litigation, and Private Client Practice. To learn more about the services that LAW offers click on About LAW.

There is still a common misconception that Islamic bonds can only be issued by Islamic companies or subscribed by Islamic investors. Far from it, Islamic bonds are nowadays issued by issuers as diverse as the Saxony-Anhalt State in Germany (they issued a €100.0 million Islamic bond in 2006) and are subscribed even by conventional banks. To read more click here.

Contributed by LAW member firm, Tay & Partners, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tay & Partners is a full service commercial law firm with offices in Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru. They serve the legal needs of a wide portfolio of clients, both local and multinational across a broad spectrum of industry sectors.

Dates for the following 2009 meetings are tentative.

• Asia Pacific Regional Meeting
  Manila, Philippines (March) – hosted by Zambrano and Gruba Law Offices

• Americas Regional Meeting
  San Diego, California, USA (April) – hosted by Klinedinst PC

• Europe, Africa & Middle East Regional Meeting
  Budapest, Hungary (May) – hosted by Kovács Retí Szegheo Attorneys-at-Law

• Annual General Meeting
  Singapore (October) – hosted by De Souza Lim & Goh LLP