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Reintroducing the dual-class share structure in Hong Kong: For a balance between market openness and investor protection

10 November 2023

Fa Chen

Quincecare in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

28 February 2023

Peter Watts

Disclosure Requirements in Corporate Debt Restructuring via Schemes of Arrangement: A Comparative Approach

Creditors often face significant information asymmetry when debtor companies seek to restructure their debts. In the United Kingdom, it is mandatory for debtor companies, seeking to invoke the courts’ jurisdiction...

25 May 2021

Wai Yee Wan

Casey Watters

When is an Individual Investor Not in Need of Consumer Protection? A Comparative Analysis of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia

The present regulatory orthodoxy in protecting individual investors from ‘bad’ investments is to create and enforce a robust disclosure regime. Many jurisdictions therefore require issuers of financial products (eg share...

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia seeks to reconceptualise the role of shareholders in listed companies as one that should include fiduciary duties, particularly...

5 September 2019

Ernest Lim

Managing the Risks of Corporate Fraud: The Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore

The stock markets of Hong Kong and Singapore are characterised by companies with concentrated shareholdings. In addition, they routinely attract issuers whose assets and businesses are located outside the country...

Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia

Two decades ago, within the blink of an eye, the Asian Financial Crisis pushed many of Asia’s miracle economies to the brink of collapse. In the post-mortem, the proclivity of...

11 May 2018

Dan W Puchniak

Umakanth Varottil

Hostile Takeover Regimes in Asia: A Comparative Approach

The market for corporate control (operating through hostile takeovers) acts as a key corporate governance mechanism to discipline corporate managers. However, the process and substance of the regulation of hostile...

3 May 2018

Umakanth Varottil

Wai Yee Wan

Reintroducing the dual-class share structure in Hong Kong: For a balance between market openness and investor protection

Quincecare in the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal

Disclosure Requirements in Corporate Debt Restructuring via Schemes of Arrangement: A Comparative Approach

When is an Individual Investor Not in Need of Consumer Protection? A Comparative Analysis of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

Managing the Risks of Corporate Fraud: The Evidence from Hong Kong and Singapore

Related Party Transactions in Commonwealth Asia

Hostile Takeover Regimes in Asia: A Comparative Approach

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