This article was first published on Franchising Insider—a blog maintained by US Law Firm Quarles & Brady LLP—and was co-authored by Jay Cohen, partner and director of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Phnom Penh office; Mealtey Oeurn, an advisor in Tilleke & Gibbins’ Phnom Penh Office; and Robert A.

The Contract Committee of the Consumer Protection Board has announced a number of new controls and lessee protections regarding residential property rental contracts executed from January 29, 2020, onward. These were detailed in the Notification of the Contract Committee Re: The Stipulation of Residential Property Leasing as a Contract-Controlled Business B.E. 2562 (2019), which was published in the Government Gazette on October 31, 2019.

On November 5, 2019, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) announced further relaxations of foreign exchange (FX) control regulations on investment in foreign instruments, such as securities and derivatives, in order to facilitate capital outflows and cope with the strengthening of the Thai baht. The key relaxation will, for the first time, allow Thai retail investors to send money offshore to invest directly in foreign instruments. These relaxed FX regulations, which came into effect on November 8, 2019, are summarized below.

In support of Cambodia’s rapidly growing economy, the Cambodian government enacted the Law on Electronic Commerce (E-commerce Law) and the Law on Consumer Protection (Consumer Protection Law) on November 2, 2019. Both of these new laws change the legal landscape in important ways for businesses under their purview. E-commerce Law

Mainland Southeast Asia is firmly in the sights of businesses around the globe, with its burgeoning middle class and vibrant economies.

Two of Tilleke & Gibbins’ intellectual property practitioners in Thailand, Nandana Indananda, partner, and Siraprapha Rungpry, consultant, recently contributed their extensive expertise in patent litigation to author the Thailand chapter for the first edition of the Comparative Legal Guide: Patent Litigation.

The Legal 500  and The In-House Lawyer  recently published the first edition of the Comparative Legal Guide: Patent Litigation, an authoritative guide that provides comprehensive overviews of the legal framework and key issues surrounding patent litigation law in 28 jurisdictions worldwide in an easy-to-read question and answer format.

As detailed in our previous articles on Myanmar’s new Trademark Law (see here for example), under Myanmar’s new Trademark Law, all existing trademark owners who have recorded their rights under Myanmar’s old system must file new applications to protect their marks under the new law, or risk losing that protection.