HONG KONG CORPORATE FINANCE UPDATE // January 2016 01 Hong Kong Corporate Finance Update Welcome to 2016 – Key Dates For the Hong Kong corporate finance community, the year 2016 opened with this list of key events: New Law/Regulation Impact Date Key Points Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Ordinance Effective on 1 January 2016 The common law “privity of...
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CLIENT MEMORANDUM China Antitrust Review 2015 January 19, 2016 The past year (2015) saw the seventh year of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”). This note identifies several significant trends in Chinese antitrust enforcement and illustrated the degree to which it deviates from Western antitrust norms. The Chinese authorities appear to have moved away from the...
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