12/10/2013
Former Herbert Smith Freehills’ Singapore partner John Dick has joined Ernst & Young Singapore as a partner as the “big four” accounting firm mulls legal services launch.
12/09/2013
Ex-Deutsche Bank Trader Gets Seven Years Jail for Bribes
Ma Sin-chi, a former Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) managing director in Hong Kong, was sentenced to seven years in jail for accepting HK$24.8 million in bribes.
12/09/2013
Overall, 49% thought that no regulator had succeeded in this respect, with a majority of respondents in the US and the UK holding this view.
12/09/2013
The firm analysed how countries globally were reacting to data protection and found the greatest shift in the Asia Pacific region
12/09/2013
Herbert Smith Freehills has named Tokyo managing partner Peter Godwin as the firm’s new regional head of disputes in Asia.
12/09/2013
Mongolia has issued a travel ban on a New Zealand national consulting for Standard Bank Group Ltd.amid an escalation in a dispute with a local company over a debt repayment.
12/09/2013
Videocon Industries has suffered a blow by Bombay High Court with a recent ruling directing the company to repay a sum of 38 million euros to an Italian bank
12/04/2013
Thirty-four international banks have representative offices in the country, but they have thus far been forbidden from opening branches or offering services other than advising clients.
12/04/2013
Benelux firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is joining German best friend Hengeler Mueller with an office in Shanghai, its second Chinese base.
12/04/2013
The public is free to participate in Internet transactions provided they take on the risk themselves.
12/03/2013
We can confirm that David Rennick will be engaged by Pinsent Masons as a consultant early next year.
12/03/2013
KWM global disputes co-ordinator to leave the firm
He was recently appointed as the global co-ordinator for the disputes practice to help integrate the firm following the tie up between KWM and SJ Berwin in the UK.
12/03/2013
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was sued by Singaporean wealth-management client Oei Hong Leong over a $34.3 million loss on Brazilian real-yen options trades he claimed the bank misled him into making.
12/03/2013
A former Royal Bank of Scotland trader fired for allegedly trying to rig the benchmark rate Libor has dropped his court claim of unfair dismissal.
12/02/2013
Australian class action close to settlement with Lehman Brothers liquidator over sub-prime losses
A group of Australian councils, churches and charities that lost millions of dollars in the US sub-prime mortgage crisis are has reached a settlement with the liquidator of the collapsed investment bank Lehman Brothers.
12/02/2013
Linklaters has named its current Greater China and global litigation head Marc Harvey as Asian regional managing partner to succeed outgoing Stuart Salt.
12/02/2013
Singapore's shadow banking is small, the Monetary Authority of Singapore Financial Stability Review 2013 said.
12/01/2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said today that a former employee leaked information used for insider trading, also in 2010.
11/27/2013
Adviser Forced To Pay Back $684,000
A former financial adviser has been forced to pay back $684,000 to five clients after he was convicted for providing inappropriate advice.
11/26/2013
The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are probing as to whether the banks’ hiring of offspring of Chinese bureaucrats breached the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.