Anti-cartel enforcement has evolved substantially in Europe in recent years and the EU Commission has consistently reaffirmed its position by punishing hard-core cartels and imposing record-level fines. Companies can manage cartel investigations by setting preventive internal checks and establishing an effective antitrust compliance policy and specific guidelines for employees. Are you ready for an unannounced dawn-raid inspection visit?
This article addresses how pharmaceutical companies take precautions against activist firms when using their shares as currency for an acquisition. These bans have gone largely unnoticed by the activist managers, who say shareholders may be harmed when a company limits who can buy its shares.
To support your global practice, read fun facts about Singapore – a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and multi-racial country where English is the commercial language of choice.
Singapore recently passed the Variable Capital Companies Act: this regulation can help create fund-friendly legal entities. In this article, in-house counsel can learn the basics of the Act and how it impacts their company.
This sample provides ground rules for participating in online communications.
An overview of asset valuation, including asset based valuation, income based valuation, and market based valuation.
Learn about the risks and key takeaways regarding Generative AI in Singapore, as discussed in a paper released by the Infocomm Media Development Authority.
Use of social media and online marketing is becoming a mainstay in corporate communications. This resource outlines questions to consider when dealing with the ever-present world of social media marketing.
With over 2.55 billion people using websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, social media websites have become popular venues for many online marketing campaigns. With this QuickCounsel, learn more about the appropriate laws to consider when dealing with social media.
A ten point list of important issues to consider when dealing with insurance regulation in Singapore.
This InfoPAK (now known as an ACC Guide) provides a "question & answer" guide to corporate crime, fraud and investigations in Singapore. This guide gives a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse. In addition, it summarizes money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing.
After being ranked by HSBC as the top expat destination in 2011 and 2012, Singapore fell to third place in 2013. Higher cost of living and tighter immigration policy were blamed for the fall. Over the past year, the government has implemented a series of new requirements regarding foreign labour. These changes raise the barrier for foreigners who want to immigrate to Singapore, whether they are fresh grads or seasoned entrepreneurs. This article summarizes what you need to know if you want to start a business in Singapore or if you are planning on hiring foreign labour.
Learn about the Digital Markets Act that came into force on 1 November 2022 in the European Union, targeting unfair practices in the online platform economy.
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of new data privacy laws in Asia. While certain countries like Malaysia do not actively police their own privacy laws, a number of others, including Singapore, have substantially increased enforcement actions.
This Top Ten outlines ten steps to fight against online defamation and restore your or your company's reputation after you or your company have been the victim of online anonymous defamation (US focus).
Singapore is the first regional financial centre outside China and Hong Kong to have a RMB Clearing Bank. A RMB Clearing Bank in Singapore is expected to increase market depth and RMB liquidity circulating between Singapore and China. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”), in consultation with PBC, has proposed certain eligibility criteria and other requirements for banks and merchant banks which wish to carry out forex transactions in China via a RMB Clearing Bank in Singapore (“China Forex Conversion”). Read this article to learn more.
Sample abbreviated rules for advertisements on online banners, tv and radio, and print.
What statutory requirements exist for keeping the enclosed indoors safe from the haze pollution, and in particular the particulate pollutants that make up the dominant component of such pollution in Singapore?
The principles and guidelines contained in this policy should be applied to all online activities.
At the Plainfield Healthcare Center in Plainfield, Ind., a nursing assistant was subject to unfair practice because her employer honored its patients’ racial preferences. Ensure your employees’ protection from third- party harassment; a judge won’t buy that the customer is always right.
Learn about the Age Appropriate Design Code issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office, which includes a set of standards for designing and providing online services to ensure that they safeguard the personal data of children.
"Endeavours" clauses, whether described as "all reasonable endeavours", "best endeavours" or "reasonable endeavours", have resisted a fixed definition in case law: their meanings are derived from the context of the relevant contract, rather than from decisions in previous cases. However, recent case law from Singapore and Australia has provided some general guidance on the interpretation of such clauses. This article examines these decisions and provides some practical tips for drafting such clauses.
In the UK and across all member states of the European Union, the use of cookies and other technologies for storing and accessing information on a user's device is regulated. The UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (the Regulations) require user/subscriber consent to the use of these technologies. That consent must be freely given, specific and informed. A cookie policy enables website operators and online businesses to give clear and transparent information to users/subscribers about the use of cookies. A cookie policy is therefore one of a number of tools that might be used when obtaining user/subscriber consent to ensure that consent is specific and informed.<br /><br />
ACC homepage poll results for the week of 11/28/2011 - 12/4/2011.
In effect on 1 July 2013, the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations 2005 (SF (CIS) Regulations) were amended by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Read more detail regarding this issue in this article.
This sample agreement is intended for use in business-to-business arrangements. The agreement is drafted on the basis that the Customer will pay the Supplier a fixed fee for development of the website, and that payments will be staged. Resource published in 2015 and republished in 2023.
Companies are increasingly engaging with audiences through social media and online platforms. However, greater public engagement comes with increased publication risk —general counsel need to know key strategies for preventing and responding to potential liabilities.
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) published statistics regarding the use of its emergency arbitrator provisions. These show a record number of emergency arbitration applications received by the SIAC in the last year, in an increasingly broad range of sectors. Overall, the SIAC has handled 34 emergency arbitrations since this procedure was introduced in July 2010. It is a system that has been proven to work well, in itself; but there remain issues with emergency arbitration, particularly in the enforceability of emergency arbitration awards, as Ben Giaretta and Michael Weatherley explain.
This article provides an overview of direct online investments, commonly known as "crowdfunding", and the alternative exemptions from registration that issuers may avail themselves to without registering those transactions with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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