GLOBAL PRACTICE GUIDES

Expert Commentary on Legal Issues

Chambers Global Practice Guides provide in-house counsel with expert legal commentary on the main practice areas in key jurisdictions around the world.
The guides focus on the practical legal issues affecting business and enable the reader to compare legislation and procedure across a range of key jurisdictions.

For every guide we select Contributing Editors who are ranked in the relevant Chambers Guides as the best in their field. The individual contributors who write the ‘Law and Practice’ and ‘Trends & Developments’ sections are selected on the same basis.


Latest Publications
Environmental Law 2025

The Environmental Law 2025 guide features 25 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on environmental policies and laws; regulatory authorities; environmental permitting, incidents, damages and liability (both corporate and personal); insurance; lender and civil liability; contaminated land; asbestos and PCBs; waste; climate change; environmental disclosure; and environmental due diligence.

Gaming Law 2025

The Gaming Law 2025 guide covers 29 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on land-based and online gambling, B2C and B2B licences, application requirements, affiliates, white labels, responsible gambling, AML legislation, acquisitions and changes of control, and restrictions on advertising, as well as on trends in social gaming, esports, fantasy sports, blockchain, and taxation.


Recently Updated Practice Areas
Environmental Law 2025
Last Updated: 27/11/2025

The Environmental Law 2025 guide features 25 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on environmental policies and laws; regulatory authorities; environmental permitting, incidents, damages and liability (both corporate and personal); insurance; lender and civil liability; contaminated land; asbestos and PCBs; waste; climate change; environmental disclosure; and environmental due diligence.

Gaming Law 2025
Last Updated: 25/11/2025

The Gaming Law 2025 guide covers 29 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on land-based and online gambling, B2C and B2B licences, application requirements, affiliates, white labels, responsible gambling, AML legislation, acquisitions and changes of control, and restrictions on advertising, as well as on trends in social gaming, esports, fantasy sports, blockchain, and taxation.

Financial Services Regulation 2025
Last Updated: 20/11/2025

The new Financial Services Regulation 2025 guide covers close to 20 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on key financial services legislation, regulatory scope and exemptions, crypto-asset regulation, primary regulators and their guidance, major regulatory focus areas (including Basel III, settlement cycles, ESG, AI, fintech, retail banking, and shadow banking), authorisation processes and timelines, and anticipated financial services reforms.

Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2025
Last Updated: 19/11/2025

The Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2025 guide features 25 jurisdictions. The guide provides the latest legal information on trends in energy and infrastructure M&A markets around the world; procedures for establishing, acquiring and selling energy and infrastructure companies; and regulatory requirements affecting transactions in the sector, including labour rights issues, foreign investment restrictions, disclosure, due diligence and directors’ duties.