09/22/2013
Singapore will require many companies operating in the city-state to consider Singaporeans for skilled job vacancies before turning to candidates from abroad, bowing to public pressure over a surge in foreigners over the past decade.
09/22/2013
Federal authorities indicted a former executive vice president at Qualcomm on Monday, saying that he was the mastermind of an elaborate insider trading scheme.
09/20/2013
Thailand's Anti-Money Laundering Office is seeking the court's orders for the confiscation of 25-million-baht property of now-defunct Bangkok Bank of Commerce and the protection of deceived rice farmers' rights
09/19/2013
"In Taiwan we are treated differently because of the sovereignty issue," Hong Kong Law Society president Ambrose Lam told Legal Week. "We can't open a firm there and they don't have any mechanism to register us.
09/18/2013
Deutsche Bank AG won an appeal overturning a Singapore ruling ordering it to pay former client Chang Tse Wen $49 million for negligence in advising him on his investments.
09/17/2013
UBS Securities Japan pleaded guilty in December in federal court in Hartford
09/17/2013
The firm also acted as the listing agent of the certificates on the Singapore Stock Exchange
09/16/2013
Market participants in Asia are keenly aware of the impact that regulation outside the region may have on them
09/16/2013
Kirkland & Ellis has formally launched its Beijing office, just under six months after first seeking a licence to launch in the Chinese capital.
09/16/2013
The Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong has signed a memorandum of understanding with European authorities on the supervision of alternative investment fund managers.
09/15/2013
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Governor of Central Bank of Bahrain
09/12/2013
He joins the office's Investment Funds group as Counsel.
09/12/2013
He reportedly works in the market support division of UBS.
09/12/2013
Singapore regulators have stepped up their scrutiny of some local branches of Indian banks on concerns about asset quality.
09/11/2013
The policy changes follow a public consultation in which respondents generally supported the proposals
09/11/2013
Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Yong Ren has joined the firm’s global Private Investment Funds group as a partner, resident in the Beijing office.
09/10/2013
Appleby has been awarded Equity Market Deal of the Year and M&A Deal of the Year 2013 at ALB's Hong Kong Awards
09/09/2013
The 12th annual event recognised Hong Kong and North Asia's best law firms
09/09/2013
Reuters News reports that the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) found evidence of potential infractions during a regular audit of Deutsche Securities Inc, the German bank's investment banking arm in Tokyo,
09/08/2013
Conyers Dill & Pearman took home two honours at the recent Macallan ALB Hong Kong Law Awards for its work on the Yahoo! Inc./Alibaba buyback, one of the most well-publicised deals of the year.