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Corporate crime update - 21 March 2013

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • March 21 2013

On 10 January 2013, the Japanese FSA announced its decision to fine Japan Advisory, a Tokyo-based investment adviser, 370,000 for illegally trading

Corporate crime update - Japan

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • February 13 2013

Following a series of high profile insider trading scandals uncovered during the course of 2012, the Japanese FSA has proposed new rules aimed at

Insider trading scandals

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • December 5 2012

In the wake of a series of insider trading scandals which have blighted Japanese brokerage firms in recent months, the FSA and the Tokyo Stock Exchange have imposed a series of business improvement orders and fines on implicated companies

FSA publishes draft amendments to investment management regulations folowing AIJ scandal

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • December 5 2012

Japan's FSA launched a review of existing regulation and government supervision of Japan's asset management sector, following the recent AIJ Investment Advisors Co. scandal, in which AIJ's President was indicted for fraud after it was revealed that AIJ hid pension fund losses of up to $1.4 billion over a nine-year period

Former Olympus executives trial begins in Tokyo

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • October 10 2012

At the first hearing in the criminal prosecution trial of three former Olympus executives (former Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former Executive Vice President Hisashi Mori and ex-auditing officer Hideo Yamada) and Olympus Corporation itself, all three defendants and the company pleaded guilty to all counts in the indictment

Asia anti-corruption report

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam
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  • July 19 2012

Welcome to the first edition of our Asia anti-corruption report

Gifts and entertainment - compliance with anti-bribery regulation in Asia

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
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  • February 21 2012

What is the source of anti-corruption lawsregulations in relation to gifts and entertainment in China?

Circular transactions in Japan

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • March 10 2010

Herbert Smith's May 2009 newsletter considered the impact on Japanese companies of high profile cases reported in the global media that had been filed as a result of the economic downturn

Dealing with increased exposure to fraud in the financial downturn

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Japan
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  • May 23 2009

In times of financial downturn and diminishing returns, complicated corporate frauds that were previously hidden by the previous successful expansion of a business often emerge

Contentious issues facing financial services institutions in Asia - key themes for 2008

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, Hong Kong, Japan
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  • May 8 2008

Financial institutions operating in Asia are facing a growing number of contentious issues