SINGAPORE ANNOUNCES AMENDMENTS TO ITS INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ACT
On September 1, 2020, Singapore’s Ministry of Law announced that it is tabling the International Arbitration (Amendment) Bill (the “Bill”) to introduce...more
CICC ISSUES FIRST RULINGS, AFFIRMS DOCTRINE OF SEPARABILITY -
In October 2019, the PRC Supreme People’s Court published the first rulings issued by the First International Commercial Court (“CICC”). The three rulings,...more
Singapore Passes Amendment Bill on Recognition of Foreign Judgments -
On September 2, 2019, Singapore’s Parliament passed the Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Amendment) Bill and the Reciprocal Enforcement of...more
Hong Kong Court Addresses Interplay Between Arbitration and Insolvency -
On August 2, 2019, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal addressed the interplay between arbitration and the court’s insolvency jurisdiction in its...more
On January 29, 2019, Transparency International (“TI”) published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”) for 2018, a survey which ranks perceptions of public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories...more
On March 20, 2018, China's legislature passed the Supervision Law, granting extremely broad investigative powers to a new anti-corruption agency – the National Supervision Commission (“NSC”) – established by constitutional...more