It has been more than two years since Vietnam’s merger control regime became operational. A number of practices by the Vietnam...
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Until earlier this year, China had a largely approval-based regulatory regime of initial public offerings ('IPOs'), under which any...
On 8 March 2023, while the world was celebrating International Women’s Day, Tan Jian, China’s ambassador to the Netherlands, deposited...
May 2022The large earthquakes felt earlier this year were an unnecessary reminder of the need for alternative energy sources in Japan....
Earlier in 2021, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) made an amendment to the procedural rule regarding its requests for information...
Since coming into effect on 4 March 2021 (we previously covered three things investors need to know about Indonesia’s new Omnibus Law in...
In February 2021, the Government of Indonesia enacted a new Presidential Regulation that brought into effect, as of 4 March 2021, a new...
In the final part of our blog series on shareholder activism in Japan, we wrap things up by showing the current activist shareholder...
'Regulatory reform' – we’ve heard this phrase countless times from his predecessors, to the point where it sounds more like catchy...
In our penultimate blog on shareholder activism in Japan, we give a brief overview of the key Japanese laws governing activism.The...
Japan is at a pivotal cultural moment in terms of shareholder activism. In this second part of our blog series, we do a deep dive and...
The perception of shareholder activism is undergoing rapid change in Japan. Traditional financial shareholder activists and their...