Jan 29, 2024 China revises its merger control filing thresholds for the first time By Ninette Dodoo Hazel Yin Wenting Ge Xiaopeng Lai +1 more... Show less China’s State Council has published its Regulation on the Notification Thresholds for Concentrations between Undertakings ('2024...
Apr 27, 2023 Vietnam's merger control process – finding the right balance By Hoang Ha An Alastair Mordaunt Charles Tay Laurent Bougard +1 more... Show less It has been more than two years since Vietnam’s merger control regime became operational. A number of practices by the Vietnam...
Apr 19, 2023 What investors need to know about China’s new registration-based IPO regime By Yuxin Shen Anqi Yu Vivian Wang Until earlier this year, China had a largely approval-based regulatory regime of initial public offerings ('IPOs'), under which any...
Mar 16, 2023 China accedes to the Apostille Convention By Yuxin Shen Tracy Gu On 8 March 2023, while the world was celebrating International Women’s Day, Tan Jian, China’s ambassador to the Netherlands, deposited...
May 11, 2022 Unique features of the offshore wind market in Japan By Hugh Goodwin May 2022 The large earthquakes felt earlier this year were an unnecessary reminder of the need for alternative energy sources in Japan....
Dec 14, 2021 Japanese merger review: JFTC can force companies to submit information By Kenji Kawahara Kaori Yamada Earlier in 2021, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) made an amendment to the procedural rule regarding its requests for information...
Dec 03, 2021 Unconstitutional? What investors need to consider from the Indonesian court decision on the Omnibus Law By Philip Morgan Carmen Lee Since coming into effect on 4 March 2021 (we previously covered three things investors need to know about Indonesia’s new Omnibus Law in...
Mar 17, 2021 Think ‘positive’ – Indonesia liberalises foreign investment in key industry sectors By Philip Morgan Carmen Lee Taybah Siddiqi In February 2021, the Government of Indonesia enacted a new Presidential Regulation that brought into effect, as of 4 March 2021, a new...
Oct 30, 2020 Shareholder activism in Japan: Part 4 – strategies, defenses and outlook By Jochen Ellrott Takeshi Nakao Elizabeth Bieber James Nepaulsingh +1 more... Show less In the final part of our blog series on shareholder activism in Japan, we wrap things up by showing the current activist shareholder...
Oct 29, 2020 The Suga administration finally changes Japan Inc? By Tomoko Nakajima 'Regulatory reform' – we’ve heard this phrase countless times from his predecessors, to the point where it sounds more like catchy...
Oct 27, 2020 Shareholder activism in Japan: Part 3 – the Japanese legal landscape By Jochen Ellrott Takeshi Nakao Elizabeth Bieber James Nepaulsingh +1 more... Show less In our penultimate blog on shareholder activism in Japan, we give a brief overview of the key Japanese laws governing activism. The...
Oct 23, 2020 Shareholder activism in Japan: Part 2 – the changing face of shareholder activism and recent trends By Jochen Ellrott Takeshi Nakao Elizabeth Bieber James Nepaulsingh +1 more... Show less 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...