by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
25 April, 2016 Dada Nexus Limited, which operates China’s largest crowdsourcing delivery platform, has entered into definitive agreements with JD.com Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), whereby JD.com will contribute its existing online-to-offline business unit (JD Daojia...
by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
21 April, 2016 Effective 1 April 2016, several changes to Singapore’s labour and employment law have been made that have the potential to generate increased awareness among employees as to their employment terms, salary and benefits. These new regulations will...
by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
25 April, 2016 JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD), China’s largest online direct sales company, announced on April 23, 2016, the pricing of its public offering of US$1 billion aggregate principal amount of its notes. The public offering consists of US$500 million of 3.125%...
by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
14 April, 2016 Shearman & Sterling is advising Hong Kong-listed Phoenix Healthcare on its US$480 million acquisition of certain hospital businesses of China Resources Healthcare Group (CR Healthcare), one of the largest state-owned enterprises in China’s...
by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
15 April, 2016 Allen & Overy has advised the joint lead managers of Mongolia’s successful sovereign bond offering. The USD500 million issuance, which closed last Wednesday, was done under the Government of Mongolia’s Global Medium Term Notes Program (in respect of...
by Ashford Benjamin | Apr 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
30 March, 2016 Recently, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance handed down its judgment in the case Li Kwok Heem John v Standard Chartered International (USA) Limited (“Bank”). The case was brought by a victim of the infamous Bernard Madoff ‘Ponzi’ scheme against...
