Speakers will bring you the latest market trends and insights from across the region to help you and your business navigate challenges and seize opportunities.
The new PRC NDRC foreign debt measures took effect from Friday 10 February, and replaces NDRC Circular 2044. In this seminar, we will cover the key changes in the new foreign debt regime, including the scope, the registration and reporting requirements, as well as ongoing compliance obligations. We will also explore some of the important considerations for lending and debt capital markets transactions going forwards.
The industries, products and focus of class actions is expanding and changing with the rise of ESG and a rapidly evolving regulatory and legal framework. Corporate accountability is increasingly demanded by society and Courts are responding to new and novel claims. The risk of class action claims, therefore, is only going to increase and businesses must be alive to the changing international landscape.
ESG activism is heating up and activist campaigns are becoming more sophisticated and wide-ranging, including targeting debt and equity securities offering documents. What are the latest tactics being used to target companies? What steps can be taken to mitigate potential ESG claims? When your company or client is the subject of an activist complaint or regulatory investigation, what plans do you have in place to respond? In this session, our panel of speakers will address these questions and discuss strategic, legal and regulatory issues that are likely to be triggered when a business becomes the target of ESG activism.
In this webinar, the speakers will discuss the change of China's top-level design of data regulators and typical scenarios and threshold conditions of applying China Standard Contract Clauses (SCCs), including the different approaches of entering into China SCCs depending on the oversea PI recipient's role (processor or entrusted service provider). They will also share their views on the insights on key requirements under the China SCCs, including contractual obligations on the overseas PI recipient on agreeing to accept CAC's supervision, disclosure, consent and contractual arrangement for onward transfer, China data subjects' risks under the China SCCs and filing requirement on the executed SCCs. The speakers will also discuss actions to be taken by MNCs and international financial institutions by reviewing their existing intragroup/internal arrangements and reconciling with China SCCs, gap identification over external contracts with vendors and how to reconcile China SCCs initiative with existing GDPR compliance regime.
In this webinar, the speakers will focus on why English schemes and RPs remain relevant for Asian based restructurings, the latest cases and techniques, the technology we should expect to see in Asian based restructurings and the competing factors when considering jurisdictions and processes to implement a restructuring. We will also discuss the latest restructuring trends in South East Asia.
The consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far-reaching. In this webinar Jared Grubb and Olga Hamama, who have been on the ground in Ukraine, will share first-hand knowledge and provide an update on the current situation, including a review of some of the legal challenges that public and private entities and investors have been facing. We will also look at how Ukraine is positioning itself for the future from a legal perspective, as the Government starts work on planning for the reconstruction and the potential challenges ahead.
Listed company compliance and directors duties are very high on the regulatory agenda, not least with the impact COVID19 and macroeconomic factors have had on listed companies' operations, compliance and accounting processes.
China's Anti-monopoly Law has just been amended for the first time since its introduction in 2008. The amended Law emphasises the fundamental role of competition policy in China's market economy and includes substantial changes.
APAC Perspective Series – PRC Data Protection Developments – One Year On, on Aug 22nd at 4:00pm -5:00pm
APAC Perspectives Series – Digital platforms – Building ecosystems and creating markets on Sept 14th at 12:45-1:45pm (HK time)
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