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Singapore’s Monetary Authority has introduced changes to the country’s Takeover Code in the wake of major restructuring in the banking sector last year.

Targeting growth overseas has helped boost US firms' turnover during a difficult economic period. Deciding how best to tackle Hong Kong remains open for debate. Stephen Mulrenan re

Last year was a bumper year for mergers and acquisitions in and out of Singapore. But 2002 is already shaping up to be very different. Stephen Mulrenan finds out why.

Described as an English badge, the select few UK firms considered part of the so-called ‘magic circle’, have the found that the term isn’t quite the stamp of approval in Hong Kong as it is in London. Stephen Mulrenan finds out why.

Landmark mortgage-backed securitisations have closed in Taiwan and Singapore, as the region continues to embrace the financing technique.

ALB's inaugural ALB Deals of the Year Awards SE Asia will be held at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on 17 March

Auric Pacific Group has taken a 30% stake in Singapore's oldest department store operator Robinsons from Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC).

ALB is proud to announce the finalists for this year's SE Asia Deals of the Year Awards, which will be held at the Marina Mandarin in Singapore on 2 June

Economic growth in Asia has boosted the region's number of millionaires. Singapore is on its way to becoming the leading player in the Asian wealth management industry, overtaking Hong Kong, and a trend towards globalisation in wealth management is only speeding the rise of this star. ALB reports

ALB Guide: Infrastructure 2008 is the latest in an exciting series of detailed insights into specific practice areas, and the leading firms and lawyers operating within them.

Although some large firms were not turned on by the first round of the federal government's infrastructure spending spree, major infrastructure projects on the way for 2009 may lift their spirits. Richard Szabo finds out what type of work will be in demand

Freshfields and Clifford Chance together with Singapore firms Drew & Napier and Stamford Law have all advised on the latest deal by Dutch financial services giant ING to shed its wealth management assets.

David Bickerton has been elected the new regional managing partner of Clifford Chance in the UK and the Middle East.

Law firms from around the globe have pieced together the acquisitions and financings that has launched Indonesian listed company, Delta, into the coal mining industry through its purchase of Indonesian coal mining contractor, Buma.

Herbert Smith has launched a new private client practice in Hong Kong targeting the growing wealth management industry in the Asian region.

Freshfields has made capital markets lawyer Kay Ian Ng its new Hong Kong office head, succeeding current managing partner Clive Rough who is retiring from the firm’s partnership.

Clifford Chance has appointed Hong Kong partner Martin Rogers as a member of its revamped partnership council

Having worked on a particularly bumper crop of prominent M&A and equity market deals over the past 12 months, Freshfields has deservedly claimed three awards at the ALB China Law Awards.

Indonesia’s telecommunications giant Tower Bersama has engaged Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Assegaf Hamzah & Partners in a US$2bn loan debt programme to PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure and its operating companies. Norton Rose and Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners advised the programme coordinators of the transaction.

A subsidiary of the second largest coal producer of Indonesia, Adaro Energy has inked a US$400m senior loan facility from a syndicate of 12 banks to refinance existing debts and capital expenditures. The loan secured has a maturity period of seven years – the longest tenor of any major financing to date in the Indonesian market.