CLA News / Newsletter Foreword by Prof. E. Kofi Abotsi, Chair, CLA Corporate & Commercial Committee

I am excited to announce the publication of the Corporate and Commercial Newsletter at a time of great and rapid changes in cross-jurisdictional legal practice in corporate and commercial law across the commonwealth. This newsletter, which acts as the official mouthpiece for the Corporate and Commercial Committee of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA), offers a platform for engagement and critical review of emerging themes and developments in the field of corporate and commercial law within the commonwealth. As is reflected in the submissions contained in this issue, the newsletter seeks to publish cutting-edge but trendy insights into the dynamic world of corporate and commercial legal practice while highlighting new developments and international perspectives within the field.

As corporations and markets evolve and new challenges emerge, it is my expectation that this newsletter will remain committed to delivering timely, practical, and thought-provoking content to guide legal practitioners, corporate leaders, and policymakers across the commonwealth on relevant  developments affecting the community of corporate and commercial legal professionals within the commonwealth.

This edition brings together perspectives from lawyers within the commonwealth with the key aim of fostering conversations on the minimally curated topical issues covered. The global economy today presents both challenges and opportunities within a complex spectrum of subjects, and as a periodical, this newsletter intends to lead in discourses surrounding such emerging global themes as mergers and acquisitions, supply chain reconfigurations and the geopolitics and political economy of global trade, evolving ESG frameworks, AI and the evolution of the legal market, digital assets, corporate restructuring and insolvency, international investment dynamics, the internationalization of corporate practice, etc.  It is our hope that the newsletter will become the cluster for sparking ideas on corporate and commercial practice within the CLA as well as inspire collaborative solutions that transcend geographical and sectoral divides.

I do hope that readers will find the issue a good read and useful to in their various fields of practice.

Prof. E. Kofi Abotsi

Chair, Corporate & Commercial Committee