Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

PwC hires Blakes lawyer for Perth start-up

He began his career in Perth more than 15 years ago before moving to London in 2000 to join UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner

Japanese banks under investigation by Swiss authorities

Collusion between these banks is suspected to have influenced the London interbank offered rate and the Tokyo interbank offered rate, two indicators of the interbank interest rate level.

Hogan fails in court battle to keep documents secret from Tax Office

THE Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has failed in his attempt to keep secret dozens of documents relating to his fight with the Australia Taxation Office over an alleged multimillion-dollar tax avoidance.

Swiss private bank sued in Singapore over minor’s risky trades

“The trades were carried out through the instigation of Chwee without any consultation with WF Ow,” the Ows said in their lawsuit.

Swiss urge U.S. tax deal to shield other banks

Switzerland has been lobbying for a year to get the investigations dropped in return for the payment of a hefty fine and the transfer of names of thousands of U.S. bank clients suspected of dodging taxes.

One Stanford Client Lost $20 Million, Ex-Executive Testifies

Jason Green, who led Stanford Group’s private-client group, cited the loss while being cross-examined by the defense on the fifth day of Stanford’s investor fraud trial in federal court in Houston.

RBS Defends Libor-Related Dismissal Of Singapore Trader

Tan Chi Min, previously the head of delta trading with RBS's global banking and markets division in Singapore, late last year commenced a suit against the bank after his employment was terminated in November last year.

Global law firm advises Greenko on $70m investment from Standard Chartered

Greenko will use the funds primarily to support the development of the renewable power projects of the Greenko group as a whole and will benefit from Standard Chartered's strong expertise of providing debt solutions in the project finance sector.

Indonesia Gets Tougher Against Money Laundering

The transactions must be reported to the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK).

Swiss private bank wins bid to recover $43.8m from Singapore trader

Switzerland’s biggest publicly traded private bank won the ruling at Singapore’s High Court last week, said the people, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly about the decision.

Prominent lawyers named in million-dollar civil-action suit

It also led to the suicide of a Singapore warehouse manager, who was a star witness in the case and an employee of the warehousing company Fujitrans (Singapore).

RBS Says Former Singapore Trader Sought to Manipulate Libor

He deserved to be fired because he was guilty of “gross misconduct,” RBS, Britain’s biggest government-owned lender, said in court papers filed in Singapore High Court late yesterday.

Japanese regulator may lower barriers to alternative trading

SBI Japannext, Chi-X Japan Ltd. and other new venues that display prices handled 5 percent of the trades in Topix Index stocks last year, the most since the platforms started in 2007, data compiled by Bloomberg shows.

Deutsche Bank executive charged over multi-million dollar bribery

Ma Sin-chi, a managing director of Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong, appeared in court Thursday charged with accepting advantages following an investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Loyens & Loeff to open in Hong Kong

The office will also be staffed with (senior) associates.

Best deals in Australia and Japan in 2011 named; Linklaters is law firm of the year

The Best Equity-Linked Deal honour goes to CFS Retail Property Trust, which issued in June 2011 a AUD300 million convertible bond (CB) to fund a concurrent tender offer for up to AUD300 million of the outstanding AUD595 million CBs due 2014. The deal, whi

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