The Law Reviews

Expert panel

Allen & Gledhill

Singapore

Allen & Gledhill is an award-winning full-service South-east Asian commercial law firm which provides legal services to a wide range of premier clients, including local and multinational corporations and financial institutions. Established in 1902, the Firm is consistently ranked as one of the market leaders in Singapore and South-east Asia, having been involved in a number of challenging, complex and significant deals, many of which are first of its kind. The Firm’s reputation for high-quality advice is regularly affirmed by the strong rankings in leading publications, and by the various awards and accolades it has received from independent commentators and clients. The Firm is consistently ranked band one in the highest number of practice areas, and is one of the firms with the highest number of lawyers recognised as leading individuals. Over the years, the Firm has also been named ‘Regional Law Firm of the Year’ and ‘SE Asia Law Firm of the Year’ by many prominent legal awards. With a growing network of associate firms and offices, Allen & Gledhill is well-placed to advise clients on their business interests in Singapore and beyond, in particular, on matters involving South-east Asia and the Asia region. Our network comprises Rahmat Lim & Partners, our Malaysian associate firm in Kuala Lumpur, our local office in Yangon, Myanmar and Soemadipradja & Taher, our alliance firm in Jakarta, Indonesia. Allen & Gledhill has over 450 lawyers in the region, making it one of the largest law firms in South-east Asia.

One Marina Boulevard #28-00
Singapore 018989
Tel: +65 6890 7188
Fax: +65 6327 3800

www.allenandgledhill.com

Contributors

Adrian Ang V-Meng

The Financial Technology Law Review

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

Alexander Yap Wei-Ming

The Financial Technology Law Review

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

Amanda Soon

The Intellectual Property Review

Andrew M Lim

The Corporate Governance Review

Anil Shergill

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

Daren Shiau

The Merger Control Review

The International Investigations Review

The Cartels and Leniency Review

Elsa Chen

The Merger Control Review

The Cartels and Leniency Review

Francis Mok

The Banking Regulation Review

Jason Chan

The International Investigations Review

Kenneth Lim Tao Chung

The Restructuring Review

Lee Kee Yeng

The Mergers & Acquisitions Review

The Corporate Governance Review

Lim Mei

The Mergers & Acquisitions Review

Richard Young

The Corporate Governance Review

Ruth Sim Yi Li

Samuel Kwek

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

Scott Clements

The Merger Control Review

The Cartels and Leniency Review

Stanley Lai

The Intellectual Property Review

Sunit Chhabra

Tan Tze Gay

The Initial Public Offerings Law Review

Vincent Leow

The International Investigations Review

William Ong

The Global Damages Review

Wong Sook Ping

The Banking Regulation Review

Wu Zhaoqi

The Initial Public Offerings Law Review

The Banking Regulation Review

Banking regulation is a never-ending quest to balance the three major policy objectives of financial stability, consumer protection and the needs of developed economies for reliable services involving the provision and intermediation of finance. It is safe to say that the relative importance of these factors to policymakers will never be constant.

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Singapore

The Financial Technology Law Review

This first edition of The Financial Technology Law Review is published at a time when most players in the finance sector are concerned about the new developments that information technology (IT), big data and artificial intelligence (AI). Hence, it is often forgotten that the use of IT in the finance sector is not new and that many applications that would come under fintech are already quite old, at least by today’s standards.

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Singapore

The International Investigations Review

In the United States, it is a rare day when newspaper headlines do not announce criminal or regulatory investigations or prosecutions of major financial institutions and other corporations. Foreign corruption. Healthcare, consumer and environmental fraud. Tax evasion. Price fixing. Manipulation of benchmark interest rates and foreign exchange trading. Export controls and other trade sanctions.

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Singapore

The Merger Control Review

Pre-merger competition review has advanced significantly since its creation in 1976 in the United States. As this book evidences, today almost all competition authorities have a notification process in place – with most requiring pre-merger notification for transactions that meet certain prescribed minimum thresholds.

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Singapore

The Restructuring Review

The global economic upswing, which began in 2016, continues to strengthen with global GDP growth reaching 3.9 per cent in the second quarter of 2018 and expected to increase further in the second half of 2018. World trade growth accelerated by 4.7 per cent in 2017, following trade growth of only 1.8 per cent in 2016. This is largely driven by cyclical improvements and an increase in investment growth in developed economies.

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Singapore

The Mergers & Acquisitions Review

Despite a slight decrease in overall activity compared with 2016, 2017 was a strong year for global M&A activity as, for the fourth consecutive year, global deal-making activity exceeded US$3 trillion with announced transaction volumes reaching US$3.7 trillion. Even though 2017 did not replicate the record-breaking number of mega-deals in 2015 nor the high volume seen in 2016, market participants in a number of sectors took advantage of continued access to cheap capital globally to engage in M&A activity.

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Singapore

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

The Virtual Currency Regulation Review is intended to provide a practical, business-focused analysis of recent legal and regulatory changes and developments, and of their effects, and to look forward at expected trends in the area of virtual currencies on a country-by-country basis. We are still very much in the early days of the virtual currency revolution. No one can truthfully claim to know what the future holds for virtual currencies, but as it does not appear to be a passing fad, we have endeavoured to provide as much useful information as practicable concerning the regulation of virtual currency

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Singapore

The Global Damages Review

In this, the inaugural edition of The Global Damages Law Review, we survey the codified rules and common law principles underpinning the presentation of damages evidence. We also summarise recent common law decisions that provide new or improved guidance on these frameworks. This first edition summarises principles governing the quantification of expert financial evidence in select common law jurisdictions including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; and highlights important precedents from recent case law in each of the jurisdictions.

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Singapore

The Cartels and Leniency Review

This book brings together leading competition law experts from 28 jurisdictions to address an issue of growing importance to large corporations, their managers and their lawyers: the potential liability, both civil and criminal, that may arise from unlawful agreements with competitors as to price, markets or output. The broad message of the book is that this risk is growing steadily. The authors are from some of the most widely respected law firms in their jurisdictions. All have substantial experience with cartel investigations and many have served in senior positions in government.

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Singapore

The Corporate Governance Review

In this ninth edition, we can see that corporate governance is becoming a more vital and all-encompassing topic with each year that passes. We all realise that the modern corporation is one of the most ingenious concepts ever devised. Our lives are dominated by corporations. We eat and breathe through them, we travel with them, we are entertained by them, most of us work for them. Most corporations aim to add value to society, and they very often do. Some, however, are exploiting, polluting, poisoning and impoverishing us…

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Singapore

The Initial Public Offerings Law Review

This publication introduces the reader to the main stock exchanges around the globe and their related initial public offering (IPO) regulatory environments, and provides insight into the legal and procedural IPO landscapes in 18 different jurisdictions. Each chapter gives a general overview of the IPO process in the region, addresses regulatory and exchange requirements, and presents key offering considerations.

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Singapore