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Tiger Asia management loses final jurisdictional challenge: Hong Kong's highest court confirms court's free-standing power to grant orders over contraventions of the securities and futures ordinance under Section 213

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Hong Kong
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  • May 16 2013

After over two and a half years since US-based hedge fund manager Tiger Asia Management LLC and its three officers (collectively "Tiger Asia") sought

All the better to eat you with court of final appeal gives SFC bigger teeth with third route of enforcement in Tiger Asia

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Hong Kong
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  • May 14 2013

The Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") commenced a series of test cases seeking to use section 213 of the Securities and Futures Ordinance

International regulatory update 4 Feb-8 Feb 2013

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Global, Hong Kong, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 11 2013

EMIR: European Parliament’s resolution to reject Delegated regulations withdrawn; MiFID review: EU Council Presidency publishes Compromise texts

Insider trader arrested in Hong Kong first such extradition in a decade

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Hong Kong
  • -
  • February 1 2013

In the past several years, legal commentators have consistently written about the increasing emphasis on cross-border regulatory enforcement, and

International regulatory update 10-14 December 2012

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 17 2012

The European Council (Heads of State or Government) has published the conclusions from its meeting on 13 and 14 December 2012, at which it agreed on a roadmap for the completion of the Economic and Monetary Union

Update on the SFC Code of Conduct - whistleblowing HK style

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Hong Kong
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  • December 3 2012

The new reporting requirement The major change to the Code is a new paragraph in the reporting section of the Code (section 12

This week in securities litigation (week ending October 26, 2012)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Hong Kong, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

The focus this week was on white collar criminal securities cases

Hong Kong capital markets quarterly news

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • Hong Kong
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  • October 12 2012

In this issue, we look at some of the highlights for the Hong Kong capital markets in the third quarter, including the new Companies Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council

True purpose trumps false trading: traders acquitted of market misconduct

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Hong Kong
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  • July 21 2012

The Court of Final Appeal (the “CFA”) of Hong Kong has allowed the appeals of two traders, quashing their convictions for creating a false or misleading appearance of active trading contrary to the market misconduct provisions of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (the “SFO”), and setting aside their sentences

Combating Market Misconduct - Section 213 strikes againand where or what else will it strike?

  • King & Wood Mallesons
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  • Hong Kong
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  • July 10 2012

The Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) has been steadily getting more creative in the use of its powers and we can expect them to continue to do so, given their recent success in obtaining compensation for investors for financial misstatements in a company’s prospectus