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October/November 2019

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  • Sponsored by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
    The lawyers who worked on this high profile case involving allegations of auction-rigging explain what others need to know
  • Sponsored by Nishimura & Asahi
    On September 19 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) officially submitted its final draft decision to the Prime Minister in order to promulgate a new decision on incentives for investors in solar power projects in Vietnam (Draft Decision). Two substantial incentives in the Draft Decision include (i) new feed-in tariffs (FIT) and (ii) detailed regulations on rooftop solar power projects.
  • Sponsored by Nishimura & Asahi
    On June 26 2019 the State Bank of Vietnam issued Circular 06/2019/TT-NHNN on foreign exchange control of foreign direct investment (FDI) activities in Vietnam (Circular 06). It replaced Circular 19/2014/TT-NHNN (Circular 19) and amended certain articles in Circular 05/2014/TT-NHNN on the opening and use of foreign indirect investment capital accounts, and in Circular 16/2014/TT-NHNN on the use of foreign currency and Vietnamese Dong (VND) accounts for residents and non-residents. The issuance of Circular 06 has led to some important regulatory changes relating to the foreign exchange control of FDI activities in Vietnam.
  • Sponsored by Morgan Lewis & Bockius
    Lawyers in London, Frankfurt and Silicon Valley share their experiences of the tokenisation of assets and explain where they see the market going
  • Sponsored by Slaughter and May
    Transaction management firm The Deal Team, together with London-based Slaughter and May lawyers, explain how the IPO process has changed for issuers since the FCA’s reforms last summer
  • Sponsored by Futej & Partners
    A long-standing burden on the courts in the Slovak Republic is the large number of old enforcement proceedings. Old enforcement proceedings are referred proceedings that commenced before April 1 2017, when a large amendment of the Code of Enforcement Procedure entered into force. While the new rules from this date give bailiffs strict limits for the new enforcement proceedings – two-and-a-half years for debtors who are legal entities and five years for debtors who are natural persons – no such limits existed for the old enforcement proceedings. This fact, plus the fact that old enforcement procedures could not be terminated for insolvency of a debtor without the creditor's consent, explains why there are still 2.6 million old enforcement procedures in the courts. These old enforcement procedures formally continue even though the debtor is, in most cases, insolvent and no assets are being recovered from them. If these cases continue to be completed at their present rate without state intervention, the old enforcement procedures would remain in the legal system for another 12+ years. To end this unsustainable situation, the government proposed an act on the termination of the certain enforcement procedures (Act) aimed specifically at the old enforcement proceedings, which will enter force on January 1 2020.
  • Sponsored by Gilbert + Tobin
    Local regulators are displaying enviable steadfastness in relation to cryptocurrency regulation, according to Peter Reeves, Georgina Willcock and Emily Shen of Gilbert + Tobin
  • Sponsored by Hengeler Mueller
    A poll of blue-chip executives shows companies are becoming increasingly aware of the threats inherent to M&A
  • Sponsored by Consortium Legal
    The fintech industry has revolutionised the traditional financial industry as we used to know it, at a faster pace than many could imagine.