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 here 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 here  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 here 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 here  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 here 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 here 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, 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 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 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 here 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 here  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 here  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, Singapore Caroline Berube, the managing partner of HJM Asia Law, was proud to be one of the main sponsors of the Canada@the race. The event will be held on January 29th 2010 by the Canadian five pillars (The High Commission of Canada, the Canadian Alumni, the Canadian International School, the Canadian Association and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce). For more information on the event, please click on www.cancham.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 here 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 here 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 here