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Jane Sim Serene Sia Through a press release on October 3 2012, Singapore's Ministry of Finance (MOF) confirmed that it has completed its review of the Companies Act. Following the public consultation carried out in 2011, the MOF has accepted 192 and modified 17 recommendations of the Steering Committee. This is the largest number of changes to the Act since it was enacted in 1967. The wide ranging changes are aimed at maintaining Singapore's competitiveness as a business hub, reduce regulatory burden and compliance costs for companies, provide greater flexibility for companies, and to improve the country's corporate governance landscape. Most importantly, it will bring benefits to various stakeholder groups such as companies, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), retail investors and company directors. Following are some of the noteworthy changes:

The Ryanair/Aer Lingus deal reveals a shortfall in EU merger control regarding minority shareholdings. But is reform appropriate?

Shearman & Sterling's Financial Institutions Advisory and Financial Regulatory group head, Barnabas Reynolds, outlines why the entire regulatory effort to tackle shadow banking could be one step too far

Too many in the regulatory kitchen

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A US private equity firm's acquisition of a Greek company signals eurozone fears are beginning to thaw, deal counsel have said.

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Emmanuel Ringeval, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Alban Caillemer du Ferrage, Jones Day Richard Hall, Cravath Swaine & Moore Mohammed Kamal, Berwin Leighton Paisner France produced Europe's biggest stories last month, with FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER adding significant clout to its Paris practice through the addition of Weil Gotshal & Manges finance head Emmanuel Ringeval. The new partner focuses on leveraged finance and counts CVC and PAI Partners among his clients. WEIL was not sluggish in responding though. Just a few weeks later it brought in a direct replacement in the form of leveraged finance partner Olivier Jauffret from Linklaters. Elsewhere in Paris, SIMMONS & SIMMONS expanded its projects team with the hire of Simon Ratledge from Linklaters, while JONES DAY took a structured products team from Gide Loyrette Nouel led by Alban Caillemer du Ferrage. Across the channel, CRAVATH SWAINE & MOORE expanded its London team with the relocation of global M&A head Richard Hall to the City. The US firm has a compact London team which deals with US law only. Another US firm, CADWALADER WICKERSHAM & TAFT, has undergone a series of changes in the last few years, though this month saw it take a significant step towards rebuilding its practice with the hire of restructuring and insolvency partner Yushan Ng from Linklaters. Having recently worked on the substantial SEAT Pagine restructuring, Ng will bring plenty of experience to the team along with strong links in the investment funds sector.