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Our Singapore team along with our international network of over 500 banking and finance lawyers internationally (including those in Hong Kong), who have proven their skills in transactional, regulatory and other matters for clients in Asia and the rest of the world.

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Our team ad­vises all types of stake­hold­ers in­volved in, or im­pacted by, fin­an­cial re­struc­tur­ing and cor­por­ate in­solv­ency situ­ations, in­clud­ing debt mo
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12/03/2023
Sil­ic­on Val­ley Bank’s cur­rent po­s­i­tion and what to do about it
Please refer to our latest pub­lic­a­tion Up­date to Sil­ic­on Val­ley Bank's cur­rent po­s­i­tion and what it means for the most up-to-date guid­ance. The team here at CMS has been saddened by the col­lapse of the...
Publication
10/03/2023
Re­cip­roc­al en­force­ment of for­eign judg­ments in Singa­pore: An up­date
This art­icle is pro­duced by CMS Hol­born Asia, a Form­al Law Al­li­ance between CMS Singa­pore and Hol­born Law LLC.The long-an­ti­cip­ated re­peal of the Re­cip­roc­al En­force­ment of Com­mon­wealth Judg­ments Act 1921...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
09/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to ESG Com­pens­a­tion
In­cor­por­at­ing ESG KPIs in­to dir­ect­ors’ re­mu­ner­a­tionThe ur­gent need to place sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the heart of com­pany strategy is in­ex­tric­ably linked to in­cent­ives provided to its dir­ect­ors and em­ploy­ees. This...
Law-Now Hotels & Leisure
08/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Pro­ced­ur­al fea­tures of the Uni­fied Pat­ent...
In our pre­vi­ous art­icle, we looked at the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and high­lighted some of the key changes that will be com­ing with the new Unit­ary Pat­ent and Uni­fied...
Law-Now Intellectual Property
28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
Law-Now Venture Capital
08/02/2023
APAC IP Up­date – Winter 2022/2023
Chin­aC­NIPA re­leased the an­nounce­ment of In­ter­im Meas­ures for Hand­ling Rel­ev­ant Ex­am­in­a­tion Op­er­a­tions for the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Amended Pat­ent Law­In or­der to en­sure the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the newly...
Law-Now Intellectual Property
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
Law-Now Employment & Pensions
07/12/2022
NFTs as prop­erty – Singa­pore and the UK
Back­ground facts The Claimant was the own­er of an NFT known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club (“BAYC”) ID #2162 (“the Bored Ape NFT”) and reg­u­larly entered in­to loan trans­ac­tions to bor­row crypto­cur­ren­cies...
Regzone Banking & Finance
02/11/2022
APAC IP Up­date – Au­tumn 2022
China CNIPA re­leases China Pat­ent Sur­vey Re­port 2021 In Ju­ly 2022, the China Na­tion­al In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty Ad­min­is­tratiion (CNIPA) re­leased the China Pat­ent Sur­vey Re­port 2021. The data in the re­port...
Law-Now Life Sciences & Healthcare
26/09/2022
Or­gan­iz­a­tions face risk of high­er fin­an­cial pen­al­ties for breaches of the...
This art­icle is pro­duced by CMS Hol­born Asia, a Form­al Law Al­li­ance between CMS Singa­pore and Hol­born Law LLC. The en­hanced fin­an­cial pen­alty for breaches of the Singa­pore data pro­tec­tion law (the Per­son­al...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
19/08/2022
Vi­et­nam’s new Cy­ber­se­cur­ity Law re­quir­ing data loc­al­isa­tion to take ef­fect...
The Law on Cy­ber­se­cur­ity, De­cree No. 53/2022/ND-CP (“De­cree 53/2022”) was is­sued by the Vi­et­namese Gov­ern­ment on 15 Au­gust 2022, and will be­come fully ef­fect­ive on 1 Oc­to­ber 2022. The fol­low­ing are...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
28/07/2022
Eng­lish High Court per­mits ser­vice of court pro­ceed­ings by NFT
For the first time out­side the United States and for only the second time world­wide,[1] a court has al­lowed the ser­vice of pro­ceed­ings via non-fun­gible token (NFT).  The judg­ment of Trow­ers J in the...
Law-Now Banking & Finance
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