09/30/2013
Herbert Smith Freehills has hired two partners in Australia, with Sydney corporate partner David Ryan joining from Baker & McKenzie and Brisbane financial partner David Lyons joining from Norton Rose Fulbright.
09/29/2013
Mizuho Bank will punish officials swept up in a scandal involving loans to anti-social groups including yakuza crime syndicates
09/29/2013
Indian law firms may be minnows compared to global peers such as the Baker & Mckenzies, Clifford Chance and Linklaters of the world.
09/25/2013
A CFO's forte lies in identifying core financial risks and effectively converting them from a possible threat to opportunity
09/24/2013
Dorsey & Whitney has a long-established office in Hong Kong, which currently has 13 lawyers, including six partners.
09/24/2013
This move reflects Singapore's growing reputation as a hub for commercial dispute resolution for the Asia-Pacific region.
09/23/2013
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is investigating several banks for their possible failure to detect irregular transactions that may have abetted the illegal activities of Janet Lim-Napoles
09/22/2013
Bedell Appoint Kristian Wilson in Singapore Office
Bedell has strengthened its Singapore office with the appointment of experienced corporate lawyer Kristian Wilson as an Associate.
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.