July 29th, 2010, Montreal, Canada
Caroline Berube will be a speaker on “IP Law in China – how to
protect yourself in practice?”. The event is organized by the
Montreal Chamber of Commerce. For more information, please click on
http://www.ccmm.qc.ca/fr/index.aspx?p=3251
July 14th, 2010, Singapore
Caroline Berube, MD of HJM Asia Law, was a speaker at the iadvisory
Seminar Series: Doing Business in China, A special focus on West
China – Chengdu, Chongqing and Xi’an. Caroline was speaking
about “How to safeguard your Intellectual Property Rights?”. For
more information, please click on
http://iesingapore.eventshub.sg/Default.aspx?CalID=1&EventID=1258
July 12th, 2010
HJM Asia Law & Co, believing in young and dynamic people, was
proud to sponsor the JCEF of Guangzhou (the Young French Chamber of
Commerce) for a wonderful concert to be held at the Xing Hai Concert
Hall of renowned musicians performing pieces from French and
Austrian compositors of the end of 19th century and Chinese works
from the 20th century (four hands piano and solo).
July 8th, 2010
HJM Asia Law Managing Partner, Ms Caroline Berube, was interviewed
by the Business Times in Singapore on the legal issues that
Singapore companies should take note of when setting up in Fujian.
To read the article, please 
click here
July 3rd, 2010, Guangzhou, China
Caroline Berube, Managing Partner of HJM Asia Law, was invited to
attend Luncheon with the Canandian governor general, Michaelle Jean,
for a dialoguye with Canadian business people in Guangzhou. To
listen to the interview of Radio-Canada, please click on
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2010/07/03/008-chine-gouverneure-generale.shtml
June 2010
HJM Asia Law was listed in the 2010 IP Guide issued by the 2010
Global IP Adviser Guide in association with Corporate International
Magazine. To read the interview by Corporate International Magazine
on HJM Asia Law’s expertise in IP, please
click
here
June 30th, 2010, Shanghai, China
Caroline Berube will be giving an informative talk to a group of
business students led by leading professor Pierre Toth from the HEC,
University of Montreal, on “How to structure a business in
China”.
June 29th, 2010, Shanghai, China
HJM Asia & Cajola launched the book ItalyLaw at the Italian
Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. Riccardo and Caroline authored the
chapter on Formation of Business Entities in Italy and China while
14 other Italian lawyers authored chapters on other relevant topics.
To read the chapter authored by HJM Asia & Cajola, please
click
here
June 29th, 2010, Shanghai, China
Caroline Berube and Riccardo Cajola, partner of HJM Asia Law &
Cajola were two of the panelists speaking about “Setting up
Business in China” at the Italian Pavilion of the Shanghai Expo
together with 12 other lawyers from Italy during the “Roundtable
on foreign investments in Italy: legal aspects”.
For reading comments on the event, please click on
http://china.legalbusinessonline.com/news/breaking-news/c15-italian-firms-showcase-italian-opportunities-at-shanghai-expo/46947
June 17th, 2010
Montreal Chamber of Commerce, Montreal,
Canada
Caroline Berube was a speaker at a conference organized by
the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (www.ccmm.qc.ca)
on "How to set up your company in China". For more
information, please click on
http://www.ccmm.qc.ca/fr/index.aspx?p=3145
June 10-13th, 2010, CILS International Arbitration Symposium
(Salzbourg)
Caroline Berube will speak at a seminar organized by the Center for
International Legal Studies (CILS), on "Arbitration in Asia : a
cultural approach of this legal way of solving conflict in China and
in Singapore". For more information, please click on
www.cils.org.
May 2010, Inter Pacific Bar Association
(IPBA)
The IPBA appointed Caroline Berube as Publications Committee
Vice-Chair for a term of two years effective at the end of the 2010
Singapore Conference in May 2010. For more info, please click on
www.http://ipba2010.org/
May 2010
Caroline Berube and James Yule authored a review of the book titled
“Searching for Success in Judicial Reform: Voices from the Asia
Pacific Experience” issued in the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum
Newsletter, Volume 17, No. 1, May 2010. To read the article, please  click
here
May 2010, Milan, Italy
Riccardo Cajola from HJM Asia & Cajola was interviewed by Top
Legal Magazine in Milan on “China goes global”. To read the
article (in Italian), please
click here
May 2010
Caroline Berube, Managing Partner of HJM Asia Law & Co, has been
appointed as member of the advisory committee of the Alliott Group.
For more information, please click on www.alliottgroup.net
May 13th, Milan, Italy
Riccardo Cajola and Caroline Berube were speakers at a conference
organized by ANIE on “How to structure your business from a legal
and tax perspective in China?”. ANIE Federation represents the
electrotechnical and electronic companies operating in Italy. For
more information, please click on www.anie.it
May 5th 2010, IPBA (Singapore)
Caroline Berube will speak at the IP Committee session. The panel will
discuss the following topic “Case study of the impact of updated
IP Laws on IP litigation in China”. For more information, please
click on www.ipba.com.
May 5th, 2010, Singapore
HJM Asia Law & Brodermann (www.hjmbroedermann.com)
hosted a luncheon at the Tower Club for the Harvard Club alumni in
Singapore. Mr. Broedermann discussed about the challenges and issues
in international contracts.
May 1st, 2010
HJM Asia Law is proud to have been elected as an official partner of
the Groupement des Chefs d’Entreprises du Québec as of May 1st,
2010. For more information, please click on www.groupement.ca
April 17th, 2010, Singapore
HJM Asia Law & CO was proud to be a sponsor of the Canadian
Maple Leaf Ball to support the Singapore Cancer Society.
April , 15th and 16th , 2010, 4th World Women Lawyers Conference (London)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, is proud to
announce that HJM Asia Law will be one of the Associate social event
sponsors for the 4th World Women Lawyers Conference, taking place
from 15–16 April 2010 at the Grand Connaught Rooms, London,
England. The conference is presented by the IBA Women Lawyers
Interest Group (WIG) and supported by the IBA European Regional
Forum. For more information, please click www.int-bar.org/conferences/conf318/binary/London Women Lawyers programme.pdf
March 29th, 2010, Singapore
HJM Asia Law invited a group of fifteen (15) leading women in
Singapore to a luncheon at the Tower Club for the occasion of the
Women Day (which was on March 8th, 2010). This luncheon was a good
occasion for the group to exchange about business, finance and
challenges.
March 17th, 2010
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce (USA)
Caroline Berube, managing partner of HJM Asia Law was a speaker
at a seminar organised by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.
The seminar will be held in Chicago, at the Chamber’s office
(Burnham Room). The topic of the seminar was “How to Protect
Your Interests in Doing Business in China” and “Do you need to
set up a company structure to protect your interests in China? 4
ways to do business in China and the pitfalls to avoid”. For
more information, please click on
www.chicagosistercities.com/wp/events/
March 17th, 2010
The International Trade Association of
Greater Chicago (USA)
Caroline Berube , managing partner of HJM Asia Law, in association
with Michelle J. Rozovics, partner at Rozovics Law Firm, will speak
at a seminar organized by the International Trade Association of
Greater Chicago. The topic will be “Maximize your profits and
minimize your risks in China by Understanding Your Sourcing
Contracts”. For more information, please click on -
www.itagc.org/docs/ITAGC_Calendar_2010-03-08.pdf and
for the powerpoint presentation, please click on
http://www.itagc.org/docs/ITAGC-2010-03-17-Sourcing-in-China.pdf
March 16th, 2010, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce (USA)
Caroline Berube, managing partner of HJM Asia Law, and Louise Kern,
managing Director of Globis,
will speak at a seminar organised by the Chicagoland Chamber of
Commerce. The seminar will be held in Chicago, at the Chamber’s
office (Burnham Room) on March 16th between 5pm and 7pm. The topic
of the seminar will be “How to Protect Your Interests in Doing
Business in China?”. Caroline will talk about “Do you need to
set up a company structure to protect your interests in China? 4
ways to do business in China and the pitfalls to avoid”. Louise
Kern will talk about “Protecting against fraud when doing business
in and with China: background investigations and other techniques
for risk mitigation.” For more information, please click on www.chicagolandchamber.org.
March 16th, 2010, Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (Canada)
Caroline Berube will speak at a conference organized by the Board of
Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on "Practical aspects of
intellectual property in China". For more information, please
click on
www.ccmm.qc.ca.
March 10th, 2010, Law Faculty, Laval University (Canada)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, will speak at
a conference organized by the Faculty of Law (www.fd.ulaval.ca
) on "Commercial agreements and the analysis of three types of
legal structure in China”.
March, 9th and 10th , 2010, Carrefour Quebec International (Canada)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, and Maxime
Berube, general manager of Jade&Co,
will speak at a seminar organized by Carrefour Quebec International
(March 9th : morning in Sherbrooke ; 5.pm to 7.pm :
Drummondville – March 10th : morning in Shawinigan).
The topics will be “Various strategies to improve your supplying
in Asia” and on the legal side “How to protect you
business and avoid pitfalls when doing business in China ?”. For
more information, please click on www.cqinternational.org
March 2010
Caroline Berube, Managing Partner of HJM Asia Law & Co, has been
appointed as executive member of the Singapore Canadian Chamber of
Commerce Executive Committee. For more information, please click on
http://www.cancham.org.sg/about_us/executives
March 2010
Caroline Berube and Shelly Chen, both from HJM Asia Law, authored an
article in the IPBA March 2010 Journal on “The Effect of the
Anti-Monopoly Law in China – A Practical Case”. To read the
article, please click
here
March 2010
Caroline Berube as a new member of IAdvisory was interviewed about
doing business in South China.To read the interview, please click on
http://www.iadvisory.gov.sg/upload/mar2010_EDM.html
March 10th, 2010
Law Faculty, Laval University (Canada)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, was a speaker
at a conference organized by the Faculty of Law of Laval University
on "Commercial agreements and the analysis of three types of
legal structure in China”. Please click on for more information:
http://www.fd.ulaval.ca/site/FilNouvelles/afficherNouvelle.php?menu=32&id=604&c=2
and
http://www.barreau.qc.ca/quebec/2/5/default.asp?mois=2/01/2010
February 18th, 2010
Brödermann & Jahn, Hamburg, Germany
Caroline Berube was a speaker at a Luncheon organized in Hamburg
(Germany) by Brödermann & Jahn Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
mbH on the topic : “Pitfalls to avoid when doing business in
China”. For more information, please click on www.hjmbroedermann.com
February 18th, 2010
INSEAD Hamburg, Harvard Club Hamburg and
Brödermann & Jahn, Hamburg, Germany
Caroline Berube was a speaker at a dinner organized in Hamburg
(Germany) by INSEAD Hamburg, Harvard Club Hamburg and Brödermann
& Jahn Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH on the topics :
“Pitfalls to avoid when doing business in China”; “are
contracts enforceable in China” and “how to protect your IP
rights in China”. For more information, please click on www.hjmbroedermann.com
February 13th/19th, 2010 Montreal,
Canada
Caroline Berube, the Managing Partner of HJM Asia Law, was
interviewed by journalist Francois Normand from Les Affaires about
Intellectual Property in China after the Strix case, a famous patent
dispute between a UK company and a Chinese entity.
To read the article, please click
here
January 29th, 2010
Italian Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou
(China)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, and Riccardo
Cajola, partner at Cajola & Associati, were speakers at a
seminar organized by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore.
The seminar will be held in Singapore at the ESSEC Campus, from 2.30
to 4.00pm. The topic will be : “Rules and Statutory Regulations :
Products labeling made in Singapore, China and Italy”.For more information, please click on
www.italchamber.org.sg
January 27th, 2010
Italian Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou (China)
Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, and Riccardo
Cajola, partner at Cajola & Associati, spoke at a seminar
organised by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Guangzhou on “How
can you benefit of the stimulus package, tax rebate and subsidies
put in place by the Chinese authorities?”. For more information, please click on
www.cameraitacina.com
January 2010
HJM Asia Law is proud to have participated and authored the chapter
on Private Equity and Fund Formation in China published by
GettingtheDealThrough. To read it, please click on -
http://www.gettingthedealthrough.com/books/28/jurisdictions/27/china/
December 2009, Inter Pacific Bar
Association (IPBA)
The Nominating Committee of IPBA (www.ipba.org)
has officially recommended Caroline Berube as Publications Committee
Vice-Chair for a term of two years effective at the end of the 2010
Singapore Conference in May. Caroline’s nomination was approved by
the Council at its Mid-Year Meeting in Hong Kong on November 1st,
2009.
October 2009
Caroline Berube and Patrick Pu authored an article titled “A brief
review of China’s laws, regulations and policies in the wake of
the current global financial crisis”, published in the Volume 16,
No. 12 in October 2009 in the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum
Newsletter.
To read the article, please click
here
2009
Chambers and Partners ranked HJM Asia Law for South China.
To read about our firm and the ranking, please click on
http://www.chambersandpartners.com/UK/Editorial/35421
February 2009, Delhi, India
HJM Asia Law was proud to be a sponsor of the IPBA Women
Conference on encouraging success and maintaining a balance, in
Delhi, India. For more information on the event, please click on
www.shannonandmanch.com/publications/ipba_conference.pdf
News
“Since September 2008, in order to assist Italian companies investing
in China and Singapore, Asian companies doing business in Italy and Europe
and to facilitate their internationalization process, HJM Asia Law &
Co. LLC and Cajola & Associati have been operating in those countries
in partnership under the common trade name HJM Asia & Cajola. The
partnership has offices in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Singapore and Milan (www.hjmasiacajola.com).
HJM Asia & Cajola comprises a team of professionals fluent in English,
Chinese Mandarin, Italian and French, assisting their clients throughout
their process of doing business in Asia and/or Europe. HJM Asia &
Cajola assist their clients in their business strategy, M&A
transactions, IP matters and legal and tax advice.
For more information on the services of HJM Asia & Cajola, please contact
Caroline Berube
cberube@hjmasiacajola.com
Riccardo G. Cajola
rcajola@hjmasiacajola.com
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