On 24 February 2023, ADB won the Outstanding Industry Collaboration Award given by the Islamic Banking and Finance Institute Malaysia (IBFIM) in Kuala Lumpur. IBFIM recognized ADB's efforts to stengthen the capacity of Philippine regulators and private sector participants through the Islamic Finance in the Philippines Technical Assistance, supported by the Office of the General Counsel's Law and Policy Reform Program.

On 29 November, ADB and the Ministry of Justice held Cambodia’s first-ever Commercial Courts Symposium on operationalizing effective and efficient commercial courts, as part of overall support under CARM's Trade and Competitiveness Program and OGC's Law and Policy Reform Program. The Symposium convened over 120 senior government officials, judges, business leaders and international experts to exchange knowledge about experiences and lessons learned in developing commercial courts around the world.

General Counsel Thomas Clark, LPR colleagues and leading Asian judges and academics joined the Oslo International Environmental Law Conference from 3–6 October, showcasing the significant innovations in jurisprudence and environmental law education in our region.

Gretchen Aquino of the Asian Development Bank's Office of the General Counsel participated in the panel discussion at the virtual side event at the UN ESCAP’s Third Ministerial Conference on Regional Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific. The forum presented the “Best Practice and Benchmarking Study: Legal and Policy frameworks for Promotion of Electronic Transactions and the Digital Economy.”

ADB, through its Law and Policy Reform Program, and the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic, in collaboration with Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute, have developed and completed its online training course on e-commerce designed with a view to inform and provide tools to government officials, entrepreneurs, and businesses to enable them to connect to the global community.

Thomas Clark, General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank addressed global environmental leaders on the need to strengthen the environmental rule of law to accelerate action in addressing the triple planetary crises of climate, nature, and pollution at Stockholm+50 Conference.

On 23 May 2022, Bruce Gosper, ADB Vice-President (Administration and Corporate Management) delivered opening remarks highlighting the role of the formal justice system in addressing the global pandemic of violence against women and girls to a hybrid audience attending in Fiji and virtually.

ADB and the University of World Economy and Diplomacy convened a conference on the development of international commercial arbitration in Uzbekistan, following the enactment of the Law on International Commercial Arbitration (ICA Law) which was supported by ADB. 

Over 4,500 participants attended the three-day conference covering 15 sessions on the myriad of environmental and social challenges facing the ASEAN region. The conference brought together development partners, civil society organizations, judges, academia, lawyers, private sector and other interested stakeholders from 66 countries to discuss legal, policy and community-based actions to transform principles of environmental law into practice.

ADB's Law and Policy Reform team met with the newly appointed Chancellor Rosmari Carandang (2nd female to be Chancellor) and her team from the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA) and representatives from the Supreme Court to discuss capacity building of special commercial court judges and inclusion of courses on environment and climate change into the judicial education program.