04/18/2012
A former UBS banker and the son of a prominent family are among dozens of men who have appeared in court in Singapore on charges of paying an underage girl for sex in an online prostitution scandal enveloping high-profile executives and civil servants.
04/17/2012
The magic circle firm led for CIMB with a team headed up by Hong Kong partners David Watkins and Laurence Rudge, alongside City tax partners Gareth Miles and Mike Lane and London employment partner Roland Doughty.
04/16/2012
But Austria's deal is far less favourable than those struck by Britain and Germany, which both responded to political pressure by extracting big up-front payments and more concessions from Switzerland.
04/16/2012
International law firm appoints new head of Global regulatory and corporate crime
He brings with him a team of senior lawyers and support staff, including two senior counsels
04/12/2012
Wang Caipang must first spend two years in prison, and it is common under Chinese law for death sentences to be reduced to a life sentence in prison.
04/11/2012
Mauritius owes its tax status to historic ties with India, which resulted in a treaty signed in 1983.
04/11/2012
Seven Hong Kong Partners Leave Clyde & Co. in Wake of Merger
All seven of the Hong Kong partners who joined Clyde & Co. through its merger last November with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert have now left to join the local offices of other U.K. firms.
04/10/2012
Ang has been in hiding since middle of 2010. As vice president, he was head of Citibank’s Citigold Wealth Management Group that handled clients with deposits of not less than P4 million.
04/05/2012
The campaign is one of the most expensive marketing efforts ever launched by a major law firm.
04/05/2012
All seven have special deals in place with Clydes that mean they will not be subject to the post-merger exit penalties set out when Clydes and Barlows merged last November.
04/05/2012
They are suing for "more than $10 million" as a result of the alleged manipulation of shares in Bill Express, the electronic pre-paid bill payment company that went under in 2008 with debts of more than $200m.
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.