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2024 unpacked: Five insights that will shape the antitrust landscape in 2025

As antitrust and competition authorities continue to actively monitor markets and take enforcement action, businesses must stay ahead of the game. This update sets out five insights from 2024 that will shape the antitrust landscape in 2025.

The suspension of the U.S. FCPA and its Implications for U.S. affiliated entities operating in Asia

This update examines how US affiliated entities operating in Asia have historically managed FCPA (“US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act”) compliance, the implications of Executive Order 14209 for these entities, and highlights key lessons for these entities continuing operations in Asia amid an evolving regulatory environment.

ADV: The Collaborative Contracting Report Card: The Singapore, UK and Hong Kong Experience

ADV: The Collaborative Contracting Report Card: The Singapore, UK and Hong Kong Experience

This session will feature a distinguished panel of legal and project specialists who will take an honest look at the effectiveness of collaborative contracting through real-world case studies – quality projects that are completed on time and within budget. They will also discuss actionable strategies for the industry to meaningfully adopt these practices to deliver successful construction projects.

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ADV: Legal Innovation Workshop

ADV: Legal Innovation Workshop

This 2-day program equips lawyers with essential skills in legal innovation, focusing on trends, best practices, and evaluating innovative projects within their practice.

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Indonesia revises mining law, expands licensing eligibility and strengthens oversight

Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR) has approved amendments to Law No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining (UU Minerba), introducing major changes in mining license distribution, contract extensions, land-use policies, and government supervision.

Tuition centres say they advertise ethically, welcome potential regulation

Tuition centres say they advertise ethically, welcome potential regulation

They say they do not use fear-based tactics or misleading claims in their advertisements.

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S’pore-registered companies forced to wind up hit 15-year high in 2024: MinLaw data

S’pore-registered companies forced to wind up hit 15-year high in 2024: MinLaw data

Compulsory liquidations in 2024 jump 53% but are less than 0.1% of business entities here.

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More trained to help those with special needs through police interviews, court and prison processes

More trained to help those with special needs through police interviews, court and prison processes

The Appropriate Adult Scheme for Persons with Mental Disabilities had 90 volunteers in 2016 when Minds – then known as the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore – was appointed to run it; It now has more than 360 volunteers as at December 2024.

How the law prevents ‘ineligible people’ from staking claims to HDB flats

How the law prevents ‘ineligible people’ from staking claims to HDB flats

The law has been used by the courts here to deny some people from having shares in their relatives’ flats because they already have their own homes.

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Why an average of 10 families in Singapore fight over properties every year

Why an average of 10 families in Singapore fight over properties every year

Many cases involve legal owners' wrong assumption that they are absolute owners of the real estate.

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