South Korea: In August 2026, Dentons Lee published its latest Labor & Employment Newsletter.

Canada: The insight explores the current state of D&O liability, the foundational duties of directors and officers, key areas of statutory and common-law exposure, indemnification and the evolving D&O insurance market.

Guatemala: The protection of intellectual property in Guatemala continues to advance, opening up new tools for trademark owners and businesses. Maria José Huerta, from our Guatemala office, analyzes the creation of INACIF’s first Trademark Analysis Laboratory and its potential implications for the protection, valuation, and enforcement of intangible assets. Discover why this initiative could mark a turning point in trademark protection in Guatemala. At Dentons, we lead major transformations with knowledge, perspective, and solutions that help our clients navigate the changes impacting their most valuable assets.

In this episode of Capital Markets Golden Hour, host Jessica Rebarber speaks with Armine Karajyan, Global Head of Structured Finance Research at KBRA, about her unconventional journey into structured finance in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the numerous mentors who helped shape her career and how AI is transforming research, data analysis and decision-making across the market.

Vietnam: On December 24, 2025, the Council of Justices of the Supreme People's Court adopted Case Law No. 77/2025/AL and announced it pursuant to Decision No. 339a/QD-CA one day later (“Case Law 77”), with a notable highlight being the clarification of the obligation to provide information when entering into a life insurance contract.

Vietnam: On December 24, 2025, the Council of Justices of the Supreme People's Court adopted Case Law No. 78/2025/AL and promulgated it under Decision No. 339a/QD-CA the following day ("Case Law No. 78"), notably clarifying the distinction between the status of a "company member" and an " business cooperation investor".

United Kingdom: In a welcome ruling in R (Barclays Bank UK plc and others) v Financial Ombudsman Service Limited, the High Court has upheld a judicial review challenge against four decisions of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) claiming jurisdiction over complaints in respect of allegedly unfair credit relationships.

Tanzania: Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. Across industries and jurisdictions, businesses are increasingly integrating AI into their operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, enhance productivity and strengthen decision-making processes. Whether in banking, telecommunications, insurance, manufacturing, mining, healthcare, professional services or the legal sector, AI is rapidly becoming an indispensable component of modern corporate operations.

Australia: In earlier articles in this series, we examined the different types of data centre assets in the Australian market and how their underlying revenue models and risk profiles shape financing outcomes. Building on that analysis, this article explores how financing structures have evolved to support data centre assets from development to stabilised operation.

Australia: In our previous article, we examined how banks continue to underpin Australian data centre financing through construction facilities, syndicated loans, portfolio financings and sustainability-linked lending. But as platforms grow larger, more sophisticated and more capital intensive, operators increasingly require funding sources that extend beyond the traditional banking market. This evolution is driving increased participation from private credit, infrastructure investors, pension funds and capital markets investors.

Australia: In previous articles we explored how financing evolves as data centres move from greenfield development through ramp-up and into stabilised operations. We saw that construction risk, tenant concentration and cash flow maturity attract different forms of capital at different stages of the asset lifecycle. The next question is: who is providing that capital? Despite the emergence of private credit and institutional investors, banks remain at the centre of Australia's data centre financing market. This article explores the importance of bank-led financing for this market.

In AI-related transactions, governance is not only a post-closing integration issue. It is also one of the clearest indicators of whether a target’s AI practices are scalable, defensible and transaction-ready.

United Kingdom: Employers that apply the same non-compete from the first day of employment should review their approach.

United Kingdom: The PRA’s recent Final Notice imposing a £4.165 million financial penalty on HDI Global SE (the Firm) is an important reminder for insurers of the importance of the FSCS levy, as well as the need for robust governance, clear accountability, and effective systems and controls in providing accurate tariff data. The decision demonstrates that weaknesses in governance surrounding regulatory reporting – whether they relate to levy calculations, capital or solvency – can amount to breaches of the PRA’s Fundamental Rules and significant enforcement action.

After reinstating its Opinion Letter Program, the U.S. Department of Labor has been  active in answering questions through the opinion letter process, with two more letters in July focused on aspects of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Portal-to-Portal Act.

United Kingdom: The UK’s cryptoasset regulatory framework is moving from policy development towards implementation. Businesses operating in, or providing services into, the UK will need to consider how the new regime may affect their activities, governance, systems and controls, customer journeys and authorisation strategy.

In Oasis World Trading Inc (Re), 2026 ONCMT 29 (Oasis), Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission (Staff) alleged (among other things, including unregistered trading, spoofing, wash trading and providing unauthorized direct electronic access (DEA) that Oasis World Trading Inc.

Australia: A fourth category of data centre asset is emerging that departs from conventional infrastructure financing models: AI-optimised facilities purpose-built for GPU-intensive training and inference workloads, spanning two sub-models: "true" AI facilities (operator owns both the shell and the GPU hardware) and GPU colocation (customer owns the GPUs). This article examines how AI-optimised facilities are structured, why neocloud counterparties present distinct credit challenges, and how the bespoke physical configuration of these assets creates re-leasing and residual value risks that constrain conventional bankability.

Australia: This article turns to enterprise data centres owned or controlled by end users for their own internal IT needs, illustrated by on-premises facilities of major banks,), government-operated data centres, and network carrier infrastructure.

Australia: This article is the introductory piece in a series of financing-focused analyses of the Australian data centre boom. The articles that follow turn from the policy landscape set out here to the market fundamentals, contractual structures and financing implications of each of the principal asset classes (wholesale and hyperscale, enterprise and government, hybrid platforms, retail and colocation, and AI-optimised facilities) before continuing in a second sub-series examining how data centre financing changes across the asset lifecycle, the continuing role of bank debt and portfolio financing (including expansion parameters and sustainability-linked features), and the growing role of private credit, institutional capital and securitisation.