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Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Changes may have significant implications for investors seeking to take advantage of traditionally generous treaty protections.
Norton Rose Fulbright Australia
Reported interim controls have been put in place for the reopening of the banks in Cyprus on Thursday 28 March 2013.
Moore Australia
Popular uprisings demanding democratic reforms that have already toppled autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt now threaten vast swathes of the Middle East and parts of Africa. While Libya is currently garnering most attention, Algeria, Jordan, Iran, Bahrain, Yemen have all recently experienced mass demonstrations. To a lesser extent, unrest has also emanated out of Morocco, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Many of these nations are large oil producers.
Freehills
Cayman Islands
Maples Group
China
Morrison & Foerster LLP
As our readers know, foreign investments into the People’s Republic of China ("PRC") are typically structured through one or more holding companies domiciled in offshore jurisdictions.
Weil Gotshal & Manges
Recent regulatory changes for the first time allow foreign investors to directly acquire shares in a company listed in a Mainland China stock exchange. This expands further the investment opportunities for foreign strategic and financial investors.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
On August 8, 2006, the Ministry of Commerce ("MOFCOM"), joined by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, State Administration of Taxation, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, China Securities Regulatory Commission ("CSRC") and State Administration of Foreign Exchange, amended and released the Provisions for Foreign Investors to Merge and Acquire Domestic Enterprises (the "M&A Rules").
Morrison & Foerster LLP
The offshore holding company structure widely used by Chinese entrepreneurs to obtain overseas venture capital and private equity investment, engage in cross-border trade sales, and undertake overseas initial public offerings has been significantly impacted by two new circulars from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE)
Guernsey
GuernseyFinance
Merger and acquisition activity in offshore jurisdictions in 2018 is racing ahead of the previous, according to new research from law firm Appleby.
GuernseyFinance
Guernsey’s financial services regulator, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), has signed a statement of cooperation with the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).
GuernseyFinance
The number of films being produced by Hollywood is set to fall by more than a third as the major studios struggle against the climate of economic uncertainty.
GuernseyFinance
A new organisation has been formed to promote Guernsey as an international centre of excellence for the financing of independent films.
Hong Kong
Ogier
Ogier has acted as Cayman counsel on an innovative perpetual securities issue by Lenovo Group, the world's biggest seller of personal computers.
The Sovereign Group
Tax is, in fact, a very simple subject according to C. Northcote Parkinson, then Raffles Professor of History at the new University of Malaya in Singapore, and a writer for The Economist.
OIL
Offshore Incorporations Limited Group (OIL) has been conducting the Offshore 2020 annual market research since 2010.
Ogier
Asia is a vast and growing market, with the Chinese economy being the biggest.
Appleby
Prior to the global financial crisis, the Islamic banking, finance, insurance (takaful) and investment markets were riding a wave of unprecedented growth.
Appleby
The year 2006 saw a record level of private equity deals in Asia. Up to the end of November 2006, the transaction total in the Asian private equity industry amounted to US $43.7 billion.
Debevoise & Plimpton
A major legal impediment to Chinese private equity investments appears to have been repealed, although it is not yet clear whether the new regulatory regime will in fact make it easier to actually implement such investments.
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