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A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia

Ernest Lim

A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia seeks to reconceptualise the role of shareholders in listed companies as one that should include fiduciary duties, particularly the duty...

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Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets in Asia

Ross P. Buckley | Anton Didenko | Douglas W. Arner | Cyn-Young Park | Bo Zhao

Distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain have attracted massive investment interest globally, which reflects their substantial transformative potential, especially in the financial sector...

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Financial Regulation

Depositor preference and deposit insurance schemes: challenges for regulatory convergence and regulatory coordination in Asia

Andrew Godwin

Our recent article, which we co-authored with Angus Chan, examines the main challenges for achieving regulatory convergence and coordination for depositor preference rules and explicit deposit...

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Commercial Law
Corporate Governance

Hostile Takeover Regimes in Asia: A Comparative Approach

Umakanth Varottil | Wai Yee Wan

The market for corporate control (operating through hostile takeovers) acts as a key corporate governance mechanism to discipline corporate managers. However, the process and substance of the...

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Corporate Governance

Varieties of Independent Directors in Asia: A Taxonomy

Dan W Puchniak | Kon Sik Kim

The rise of the independent director in Asia is an issue of global consequence that has been largely overlooked. Less than two decades ago, independent directors were oddities in Asia’s boardrooms...

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Commercial Law
Corporate Governance

Conceiving Corporate Governance for an Asian Environment (and Really Any Environment)

David C. Donald

The “stock corporation”–or “company limited by shares”–was designed largely to allow a business to connect to the financial system and financial investors to profit from real economy business. In a...

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