Asia Pacific
Partners at JunHe, Morrison Foerster and White & Case discuss the forces that shaped dealmaking across China, Japan and Hong Kong this year
New hires and promotions were made across finance, PE and M&A practices in London, Singapore, New York and Santiago
The firm has appointed dispute resolution partner Ian Mann to lead its new outfit in Dubai’s International Financial Centre
The tie-up will allow Dentons to better position itself to meet clients’ needs across Greater China, the firm said
The firm’s Chinese and Australian partnerships will operate independently from March next year
The firm’s co-managing partners in Singapore discuss plans to capture Southeast Asia’s capital markets and maintain international client connections
The firm will establish its 48th global office in Azerbaijan’s capital in early 2026, as it continues its ‘growth trajectory’
IFLR’s legal accreditation title reveals that 85 firms across the region entered the rankings this year, while 23 dropped out across seven practice areas
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Sponsored by JunHeIn 2015, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the Circular on Promoting the Reform of the Filing and Registration Regime for Issuance of Foreign Debt by Enterprises, under which, both issuance of bonds and borrowing of mid-and-long term commercial loans overseas by PRC enterprises and/or their offshore subsidiaries and branches (collectively, the debtors) are subject to a prior filing and registration with NDRC (foreign debt filing). Over the past five years, the debtors as applicants encountered a lot of issues with regard to the foreign debt filing due to the ambiguity in definitions, scope and standards thereof. As a result, the NDRC issued detailed application guidance including 25 FAQs and respective answers in February 2020, aiming to make these issues clear. -
Sponsored by Nagashima Ohno & TsunematsuOn July 24 2019, based on a request from the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the Trust Companies Association of Japan – a financial association whose members comprise of financial institutions engaged in trust businesses – proposed sample provisions to deal with the risk of money laundering etc. in trust agreements. The outline of these sample provisions is as follows:
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