Law and Policy Reform

Law and Policy Reform Seminars

Seminar on Legal Identity for Inclusive Development

Discusses the significance of legal identity, birth registration, and related issues to ADB-funded projects.

Mr. Erik Jensen is Senior Advisor of The Asia Foundation. Ms. Debra Ladner is Associate Director of the Laws Program, The Asia Foundation. Ms. Caroline Vandenabeels is Senior Counsel of ADB.

Governance Matters in Sub-sovereign Lending, by Jacques Boribond (15 March 2006) [ PDF: 46kb | 13 pages ]

Discusses governance aspects of sub-sovereign lending in the context of three case studies on sub-sovereign lending for the health care, education, and urban transport sectors.

Mr. Jacques Boribond is a British banking and finance consultant with over 30 years of international banking experience in the UK, Africa, the former USSR, the Balkans, and the Middle East implementing projects in transition and developing countries. He was administrator of the Central Bank of Bosnia, London Club negotiator, and an advisor to the World Bank Group.

Walking on Water: Legal and Regulatory issues in Private Sector Water Projects, by Barry Metzger, Paul Elliott, Howard Wu, Oliver Massmann, and Ashok Lalwani, Baker & McKenzie (3 February 2006) [ PDF: 286kb | 82 pages ]

Presents a comprehensive checklist of legal and regulatory issues in private sector water projects.

Barry Metzger is a partner at Baker & McKenzie and is based in the firm's New York Office. From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Metzger served as General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank. Howard Wu, Oliver Massmann and Ashok Lalwani are partners at various Baker & McKenzie offices in Asia. Paul Elliott is a principal at Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow, Singapore.

Current Legal and Regulatory Issues for Private Sector Lending and Investment in Kazakhstan and the Other Central Asian Republics, by Baker & McKenzie (2 February 2006) [ PDF: 57kb | 21 pages ]

Outlines legal and regulatory issues that need to be addressed when dealing with private sector investments in Central Asian Republics.

The Baker & McKenzie CIS Almaty Office, which prepared the presentation for ADB, has advised on significant energy and privatization projects across Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.