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Singapore Court Turns Down Lord Goldsmith QC for Gay Sex Ban Case
The Debevoise & Plimpton partner and former U.K. attorney general had sought to represent a gay couple seeking to overturn Singapore's law banning male homosexual sex.White & Case Recruits for International Arbitration Launch in Singapore
With the relocation of a London partner and a local lateral hire, White & Case has launched an international arbitration practice in Singapore. International arbitration partner Aloke Ray has relocated to Singapore from London and will head up the new practice throughout Asia. In addition, the U.S. firm has hired new partner Nandakumar Ponniya from Singapore-based law firm Rajah & Tann.Singapore's Top Court Suspends Lawyer for Champerty
It was the first time Singapore's Court of Appeal had addressed the doctrine of champerty, which bars litigation funding agreements, in 35 years.Singapore Court Rules Against Bank in 'Accumulator' Dispute
Citing an "abject failure to make proper discovery," a Singapore appeals court has thrown out a decision favoring a bank over an individual investor in a dispute over $5 million in losses incurred during the global financial crisis from the purchase of a type of structured financial product called an accumulator.Asia Deal Digest: January 26, 2012
Linklaters leads as a Chinese investor takes a gulp from London's main water supplier; Paul Hastings lays the foundation for a Japanese-American property venture; and Rajah & Tann homes in on a Beijing housing buyout.09-4909-agKorcinska v. HolderSUMMARY ORDERRULINGS BY SUM M ARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUM M ARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERM ITTED AND IS GOV
Asia Deal Digest: June 20, 2013
* S&C and Linklaters on $1.7 billion Chinese dairy deal* Freshfields guides China's Dalian Wanda on British shopping trip* Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose Fulbright team for $3 billion Mongolian coal mining IPOSingapore Appeals Court Rules Against Bank in "Accumulator" Dispute
The court cited discovery failures in throwing out an earlier decision finding that an individual investor owed a bank $5 million for losses incurred in a structured financial product.Singapore's Top Court Suspends Lawyer for Champerty
Singapore's highest court has suspended a lawyer from practice for six months for champerty, the first sentence for the offense in the city-state in 35 years. The common-law tort and crime of champerty -- in which a non-party acquires an interest in the outcome of a lawsuit -- has been decriminalized or largely abandoned in many Western jurisdictions, allowing the rise of modern litigation funding.Download Now
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