06/18/2012
In assessing the three-year-old complaint, the BSP’s Office of Special Investigation (OSI) said local investment rules and regulations were not violated as businessman Washington Lou transacted business not with ING Bank Manila but with subsidiary b
06/15/2012
Joining King & Wood Mallesons as of counsel is Dina Yin, most recently a Beijing-based associate with Linklaters.
06/15/2012
Allens names 6 new partners
Allens chairman Ewen Crouch said in making the promotions, the firm had identified the areas they could best meet their clients’ needs.
06/15/2012
"We are well established in the Channel Islands and have been named the fastest growing offshore law firm - but as we are new to Singapore it has been mutually beneficial to facilitate debate and discussion around regional issues with industry leader
06/14/2012
Japan’s ruling party will consider limiting the period for public stock offerings to four days to curtail share declines and discourage insider trading, said lawmaker and former Morgan Stanley banker Tsutomu Okubo.
06/13/2012
Yam, who retired as head of Hong Kong's de facto central bank three years ago, was speaking in his private capacity as a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
06/13/2012
China’s government-controlled banks, which were transformed from almost-insolvent institutions with spiraling defaults into profitable firms with the help of more than $650 billion in bailouts, had promised to improve internal controls to root out f
06/12/2012
Following the exit of the four partners, A&O will have 21 partners in Hong Kong.
06/12/2012
Leading International Financial Centre law firm Expands With New Partners
Eleven attorneys promoted to partner across international network
06/12/2012
UBS has declined to comment on the accusations. UBS spokesman Yves Kaufmann said the bank complied with the legal requirements in the markets where it operated.
06/11/2012
The HKMA will study the two reports carefully.As market conditions and public expectation on investor protection will continue to evolve over time, the HKMA will regularly review and, as and when appropriate, introduce further measures to enhance the regu
06/11/2012
A Bangkok Court today convicted Rakesh Saxena, the former adviser to the Bangkok Bank of Commerce (BBC), and sentenced him for violating the Securities and Exchange Act.
06/08/2012
In April Singapore’s DBS bank proposed a $7.2 billion acquisition of a 67.4 percent stake in Indonesia’s Bank Danamon owned by Temasek, the Singapore government’s investment company.
06/08/2012
Asia’s powerhouse law firm, King & Wood Mallesons, has announced the recruitment of three senior lawyers to its Beijing office. The hires reinforce the firm’s Energy & Resources capability, a pillar of the strategy that underpinned the
06/08/2012
Talk to the bosses of Australia's big corporate law firms and they will tell you it is business as usual since British firms began invading this market. But in truth, everything has changed
06/07/2012
He will also seek to rebuild confidence damaged by corporate scandals, including the massive accounting fraud at Olympus Corp. and AIJ Investment Advisors Co.'s concealment of close to ¥110 billion.
06/07/2012
Justice Paul Heath has just delivered the sentence in Auckland High Court.
06/07/2012
Walker noted that in weighing up his options on the collapse of Dewey he had spoken to a number of clients, who supported his move to King & Wood Mallesons.
06/07/2012
Around 43,700 Hong Kong people invested nearly 15.7 billion HK dollars in products issued or guaranteed by Lehman Brothers before it collapsed in September 2008.
06/06/2012
A second round of licences will be handed out later this year as part of the QFLP and are likely to be hotly contended.