Davis Polk sends you 2016 New Year’s Greetings and a new Hong Kong Corporate Finance Update. In this issue, we report on:
Corporate finance key events – immediate impact in 2016
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The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) delivered its judgment in Kam Leung Sui Kwan v Kam Kwan Lai & Ors FACV 4/2015 on November 11, 2015. The case concerned two brothers’ disputes ...
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced on May 21, 2014 and December 10, 2014 that it had disciplined a Type 6 corporate finance adviser (A), its affiliated Type 1 broker en...
A Chinese intermediate court found GSK’s China subsidiary guilty of commercial bribery and fined the company a record RMB 3 billion (USD 490 million). Five of GSK China’s top managers...
As a new development in Hong Kong High Court procedure, the Hong Kong Judiciary has announced a pilot scheme for discovery and provision of electronically stored documents in cases in the...
On March 19, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tokyo-based trading company Marubeni Corporation had entered a guilty plea and will pay a criminal fine of $88 million in ...
On 23 July 2013, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited released a large number of amendments to the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Exchange, revised checklists, guidan...
Since Hong Kong’s statute-backed inside information disclosure regime saw the light of day on January 1 2013, the market has been trying to acclimatize to it. Senior managers of Hong Ko...
On 23 July 2013, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange released a large number of listing rule amendments, revised checklists, guidance materials and templates.
Subject to certain transitional pr...
