11/05/2013
Former Norton Rose China chief joins PRC start-up firm
DaHui Lawyers is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Burrows as Senior Consultant with effect from 1 November 2013.
11/04/2013
The name of the private bank in Chinese - Shoufa - has been approved by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, but it still needs to be approved by the People's Bank of China and China Banking Regulatory Commission.
11/04/2013
Japan's financial regulator widened its probe into whether all three of the country's big banks conducted transactions with Japanese gangsters, known as the yakuza
11/04/2013
Conyers Dill & Pearman has been recognised as a ‘tier-one’ firm in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2014 directory released this month. Recommended in the Hong Kong Offshore Law Firms category
11/03/2013
Two more Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme financial jurisdictions are missing from the latest official list.
11/03/2013
Shanghai-headquartered AllBright has become the latest Chinese firm to expand into Hong Kong.
11/03/2013
He also has extensive experience of practice in South East Asia, having spent much of the last 20 years in the region, initially with Richards Butlers and then with DLA Piper.
11/03/2013
The purchase of Chong Hing Bank by Guangzhou’s Yue Xiu will be the first takeover of a Hong Kong bank since the $4.7 billion deal for Wing Lung Bank by China Merchants Bank in June 2008
11/02/2013
Authorities in the US and elsewhere check whether practices breached bribery laws
10/31/2013
ASIA’s financial leaders are looking into implementing a high-level policy framework to strengthen the monitoring of financial institutions that provide services similar to that of a traditional bank.
10/31/2013
The newly merged firm will be governed by the international management committee
10/31/2013
Several international firms have also entered into Mongolia
10/30/2013
He regularly represents private equity sponsors and multinational corporations in a range of corporate transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, minority and control investments, secondary transactions and capital market offerings.
10/30/2013
Chinese regulators have expanded a pilot plan allowing banks to package loans into tradable securities to include foreign banks
10/27/2013
A former Slaughter and May lawyer and her boyfriend who worked for Linklaters LLP lost a bid to dismiss a Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission lawsuit alleging they used inside information to trade shares.
10/27/2013
The used-car dealers that dot the outskirts of Tokyo and other Japanese cities are an unlikely link between one of Japan’s biggest banks and the country’s yakuza gangsters.
10/24/2013
King & Wood Mallesons senior partner Ronald Arculli has been appointed as chairman of Pacific Century Group new insurance business, FWD Group.
10/24/2013
The newly appointed Chinese team members will further expand and strengthen our offering to the growing Chinese high net worth market.
10/23/2013
A CBI court sentenced on Wednesday former Indian Bank chairman and managing director M Gopalakrishnan and four others to one year imprisonment for defrauding various branches of the bank to the tune of about Rs. 6.5 crore.
10/22/2013
A Taiwanese investor who tried to obtain potentially embarrassing documents in a Hong Kong court tied to the possible sale of Bernie Madoff-linked funds