04/04/2012
Lou, a businessman based in Bacolod, said he lost more than $5 million of his family’s money—including his parents’ retirement funds—in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis in investments sold to him by ING.
04/04/2012
The group also called today for regulators to “keep up their efforts” to ensure that they meet a January 2013 deadline to adopt further requirements, known as Basel III.
04/04/2012
She will focus on both onshore and offshore funds formation for private equity and hedge funds, RMB funds, and offshore investments by Chinese institutions.
04/04/2012
As a result, the magic circle firm intends to put itself forward as soon as the Singaporean Government invites applications for a new round of licences.
04/03/2012
The swoop by Hong Kong’s graft-busting body on the Kwoks and a former senior government official, coming only days after a new chief executive was elected, provides ample fodder for conspiracy theorists.
04/03/2012
But the country's banks, among the biggest buyers of Japan's government bonds in recent years, aren't likely to face an immediate risk of the kind of sovereign debt crisis seen recently in Europe, said Yasuhiro Sato in a recent interview.
03/30/2012
It what appears to be the biggest corruption scandal in Hong Kong in decades, the brothers, Raymond and Thomas Kwok, the joint chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, were arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
03/30/2012
A&L Goodbody started offering Chinese lawyers six-month placements under the programme in September 2011.
03/30/2012
The UK corporate powerhouse is planning to spreads its ties more widely and is considering a range of options, including entering into informal referral relationships with a number of local firms and sending lawyers to Australian firms on secondment.
03/30/2012
Allen & Overy today announces 23 promotions to partner across 14 offices in 12 countries. Nearly 40% of new partners are female and, for the fifth year running, the majority (73%) are based outside London, underlining Allen & Overy's commitme
03/30/2012
Herbert Smith and Baker & McKenzie have been appointed to advise on the joint venture (JV) between Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and China’s Chery Automobile as the British car giant looks to expand its presence in Asia.
03/30/2012
Norton Rose announces new corporate partner in Beijing
He will join the practice from Allen & Overy where he was Counsel in the Beijing office.
03/29/2012
Investment managers will go to more automated processes as well in unit pricing and corporate actions as a response to reduce operational costs, because business margins are “thin” and automation is widely viewed as bringing long-term sustaina
03/28/2012
The Ministry of Public Security has issued an arrest warrant for Sun Feng, the former head of the Yaosai branch of the Agricultural Bank of China in Jiangyin in East China's Jiangsu province.
03/28/2012
The Income Tax (I-T) department is said to be mulling over prosecution against the HSBC bank for allegedly being the conduit for Indians in stashing money abroad.
03/28/2012
"We should wait for a clear picture because recapitalisation leads to higher financial costs, and it will be the shareholders' burden. The rising expense may ultimately be passed on to consumers."
03/28/2012
AN INVESTMENT banker employed by ABN Amro sent incorrect information to the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's about a structured finance product bought by councils but the Federal Court should conclude this was an innocent mistake or, at wor
03/27/2012
The firms announced that they are no longer in talks earlier this afternoon (26 March), with a spokesperson stating discussions had ended because they could not reach an agreement that was satisfactory to both parties.
03/27/2012
Accounting problems with US-listed Chinese companies and anti-bribery work have kept lawyers in the former British colony busy.
03/23/2012
Taylor Wessing and leading Singapore firm RHT Law LLP initially formed an alliance through an exclusive cooperation agreement in August 2011. RHT Law formally joined Taylor Wessing, as RHTLaw Taylor Wessing, on 16 March 2012.