Read publication Welcome to the 20th edition of the Asia Pacific Insurance Newsletter. This edition covers insights, pertinent insurance-specific legal issues and significant regulatory developments in Australia, China/Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam. If you missed earlier editions of this newsletter, you can access our newsletter…
Regulators around the world are responding quickly to the rapidly evolving financial technology, or fintech, landscape. As new…
In brief Malaysia caught up with the global trend of taxing cross-border supplies of digital services by introducing…
The new corporate liability provision under Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (“Section 17A”) has come into force on 1 June 2020. As highlighted in our earlier client alert (see Link), a company may be held criminally liable under this new provision for acts of bribery committed by its directors, employees or other associated persons. The only defence available is for the company to prove that it has put in place adequate procedures designed to prevent these corrupt acts.
This new corporate liability provision applies not only to Malaysian companies, but also to foreign companies with businesses in Malaysia.
The Malaysian Ministry of Housing and Local Government had on 27 July 2020 issued an announcement for the request for proposal (“RFP”) for a waste-to-energy project in Bukit Payong, Johor on a public-private partnership basis (“WtE Project”). The WtE Project is one of the 6 expected waste to energy projects that the federal government of Malaysia is planning to develop by 2021.
In brief The Prime Minister of Malaysia unveiled the National Economic Recovery Plan, also known as the Pelan…
On 1 June 2020, the corporate liability provision under Section 17A of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 (the Act) is set to come into force. As highlighted in our earlier client alert (see Link), a company may be held criminally liable for acts of corruption by its directors, employees or other associated persons.
Our team of over 300 antitrust experts around the world have collaborated to produce a truly innovative Global…
View Japanese version The Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Measures within the Infected Local Areas) Regulations 2020…
In continuation of Baker McKenzie’s Asia Pacific webinar series on the business impact of COVID-19, we bring you another panel of legal practitioners to share practical insights on further issues that impact your businesses. In this webinar, we reflect on supply chain impacts and discuss ways in which businesses are…