09/25/2012
The three US firms have received a foreign legal consultant office certificate and will file for registration with the Korean Bar Association to finalise the new office launch.
09/24/2012
He founded SJ Berwin’s Paris office in 2001 and served as Paris managing partner until May this year.
09/24/2012
Slaughter and May is considering whether to add US law capability to its Hong Kong base by hiring US-qualified lawyers as part of its regular strategy review.
09/24/2012
Broking platform slapped with $50,000 fine
Regulator forces bank to pay
09/23/2012
Grange Securities, which was bought by Lehman, invested the towns’ money in securities whose value collapsed.
09/20/2012
Du’s offenses occurred while he was a part of a team of Morgan Stanley bankers advising Citic Resources on acquiring oil-field assets in China, the commission said.
09/18/2012
Territory’s Administration Seeks To Cool Overheated Real Estate Market
09/18/2012
THE former chief executive of St George Bank, Paul Fegan, has appeared in Federal Court to answer claims he engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct while head of the bank in 2008, in the lead-up to the bank's merger with Westpac.
09/18/2012
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu today announced aggregate member firm revenues of US$31.3 billion for the fiscal year ending 31 May 2012, marking the network’s highest revenue ever.
09/17/2012
"To transfer our intellectual property and grow our business from the New Zealand testing-bed to companies in Australia and Asia, we concluded we needed a major advisory name behind us to open the doors," Mr Kerr says.
09/16/2012
The measures take immediate effect.
09/16/2012
Hyde will relocate to Hong Kong next year for a four-year term in the role. He replaces Huw Jenkins, who has led the firm’s Asia Pacific finance team since 2001.
09/16/2012
Malaysia has amended its Legal Professional Act in a move that some believe will become a double-edged sword on foreign legal practices operating in the country.
09/16/2012
Dechert is set for growth in China after the firm secured a licence to launch a Shanghai base, which will be the firm’s third location in Asia.
09/13/2012
In the case of local branches of foreign banks, that could also include ensuring assets aren't siphoned out of Australia "to the detriment of depositors and other creditors" in the event of problems elsewhere.
09/13/2012
In many cases, the shareholders of banks do not know who are the real owners of the banks, even though banks all are public companies as stipulated by the laws. It is because the banks have changed hands many times.
09/13/2012
Firm revamps pay packages to retain talent after high-profile exits
09/13/2012
Eversheds has secured a licence for its long-planned launch in Beijing, with Kirkland & Ellis also confirming that it intends to move into the Chinese capital.
09/12/2012
Considering the severity of the violations and the adverse social influences, the CSRC decided to impose tough punishment on Li.
09/10/2012
The minister made his comments as Bank of England Governor Mervyn King leads a meeting of global central bankers on the collapse of confidence in Libor, the benchmark rate for more than $500 trillion of securities.