Tag: Banking and finance

RBI scrutiny forces India co-lending partners to prove risk, customer ownership and governance in practice

Firms guide parties involved in an update of IIFL Finance’s USD1 billion secured global medium-term note programme

Indonesia’s RBP Asia counsels the Export-Import Bank of China on an agreement to finance an aluminium smelter development project in Kalimantan

Singapore firms steer USD841m refinancing loan for Frasers Tower in the Lion City

The SEBI introduces a fast-track mechanism for processing AIF private placement memorandums to improve the ease of doing business

RBI 2026 guarantee rules strengthen cross-border transparency, oversight and reporting, while balancing commerce and compliance

SNG & Partners announces six annual promotions to partner and principal associate level across key practice areas

Rohit Tiwari joins Trilegal as Bengaluru capital markets partner, boosting equity partnership to 158

Firms assist on an USD880 million green loan for a Chonburi data centre in the largest such project financing completed in Thailand to date

Hogan Lovells bolsters corporate and finance practice in Singapore with the appointment of Eric Tan as a partner

Kudun & Partners integrates corporate and capital markets law firm Manunya & Associates with its founder Manunya Thitinuntawan joining as a partner

Global Vietnam Lawyers names Le Phuong Dang as a partner and head of its Hanoi office, effective 4 May 2026

Thailand’s Chandler Mori Hamada has brought back Siregran (Gahn) Sakuliampaiboon and Disaphon Kevin Saengpetch

Gilbert + Tobin advises CDC Data Centres on its multi-jurisdictional debt transformation and raises USD2.75 billion

King & Wood advises Singapore-headquartered BDx Data Centres (BDx) on a USD320 million syndicated loan to develop data centre infrastructure across Indonesia

Philippines shifts from crypto payments to tokenised structured finance, guided by regulation and investor protection

Jipyong advises the underwriters for KRW427 billion (USD288 million) in project financing for the construction of a Musinsa logistics centre in Yeoju

Malaysian law firm Adnan Sundra & Low welcomes Sharon Teoh’s return as a banking and finance partner

Beijing-headquartered V&T Law Firm has launched an office in Osaka, marking its second branch outside the Chinese mainland

Baker McKenzie Vietnam advises on a USD488 million unsecured syndicated loan to Techcom Securities, making it the largest of its kind in the country

Four lawyers launch their own firm, Puno & Partners, in the Philippines

Abir Lal Dey has been appointed as an equity partner and Satyadarshi Kunal as a partner at the Mumbai office of CMS IndusLaw, and bring their team of eight associates

TT&A announces 21 promotions, with four of them – Nakul Sonejee, Uzma Naseem, Pooja Menon and Pratha Agarwal – now partners

Ashurst has strengthened its global loans and global markets practice in Singapore with the hire of Arijit Tiwari

Cayman Islands and BVI subscription credit facilities provide flexible fund financing, secured by capital commitments, with strong legal frameworks and regulatory compliance

Garima Shahani has joined Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co (SAM) as a partner in its banking and finance practice in New Delhi

Rajendra Patil has joined SNG & Partners as a partner in its banking & finance practice at the Mumbai office

Bangkok-based Pisut & Partners has strengthened its corporate and commercial practice group with the addition of partners Kru Sukcharoen and Panida Doungrutana

Zeeshan Khan joins Luthra and Luthra to strengthen its banking and finance practice

DeHeng Law Offices has advised China Railway Construction Corporation on its first offshore green bond issuance, which raised RMB 4 billion

Baker McKenzie has significantly strengthened its finance and projects bench in the Asia-Pacific with the addition of project finance specialist Matthias Schemuth

Baker McKenzie has appointed Miles Wadley, formerly a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, as a partner in Melbourne

Commerce & Finance Law Offices has launched a new Chongqing office led by partner Liao Jun, expanding its presence in Southwest China

Ex-Kudun partners have launched Mediums, a new Thai law firm focused on M&A and business rehabilitation

The SCCA co-hosted the Global Trade Congress in Singapore, stressing collaboration in global trade

Rajah & Tann Singapore hires Michelle Zheng to boost banking and aviation practices

Bird & Bird launches Singapore restructuring group led by Ashok Kumar and Darius Tay to boost regional legal services

Han Kun appoints Christine Kang as partner in New York; she specialises in cross-border dispute resolution

Deacons hired Michael Sinn, a corporate finance partner, expanding its team for the second time this year

Tahota Law Firm opens first northeast China branch in Harbin, expanding influence to Russia and northeast Asia

Baker McKenzie and Freshfields advised GNMI on its EUR665M acquisition of Surface Solution from Germany's Merck

Burgeon Law has secured the addition of Ketan Mukhija as a senior partner and Abhinav Agnihotri as a partner from Dentons Link Legal

C&F has opened a Suzhou office in Jiangsu province, the ninth branch in China, creating a robust service cluster in the Yangtze River Delta region with its Shanghai and Hangzhou offices

The RBI has released a Master Circular on Prudential Norms for Capital Adequacy in Primary Co-operative Banks, which consolidates and updates all the instructions and guidelines on the subject issued up to 19 April 2023

After spending 12 years, including more than five as a partner, at Tilleke & Gibbins, Ho Chi Minh City-based corporate and commercial lawyer Nguyen Quoc Vinh joins Indochine Counsel as a senior counsel

SNG & Partners has promoted Soumyajit Mitra, Subrata Mukherjee and Aditya Vikram Dua to partner, and Sweta Mehta, Samreen Paloba, Rashmi Raveendran and Jahnavi Dwarkadas are now associate partners

Multiple firms have announced the advancement of talent among their various practice groups during April when annual promotions are made for the new fiscal year

The RBI is seeking public comment on a discussion paper on the Securitisation of Stressed Asset Framework (SSAF)

The Ministry of Home Affairs has mandated the State Bank of India (SBI) to report daily reporting on all details of overseas donors, including the purpose of remittances

The government will add virtual assets to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in a major step towards regulating the cryptocurrency market in India

Singapore-headquartered law firm Helmsman has established new practice groups – commercial disputes, employment, and corporate, banking and finance

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced an extensive mechanism to accelerate cross-border trade settlements in Indian rupees (INR) in a move to bolster trade in the Indian currency

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued notifications covering a range of foreign investment options to increase foreign exchange inflows in response to a weakening rupee and a tightening of global financial conditions

The Finance Act 2022 has inserted a new section in the Income-tax Act, 1961, under which a person responsible for paying to any resident for the transfer of a virtual digital assets (VDAs) will be able to deduct 1% of the paid amount from his or her income tax

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the deadline for card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation from 30 June to 30 September 2022, citing implementation issues highlighted by merchants

The Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) became the new lenders in the refinancing of wind turbine

Jindal Steel & Power’s subsidiary, Jindal Steel Odisha, has secured a loan from the State Bank of India (SBI) for INR157.27 billion (USD1.99 billion)

Hylands has appointed Tian Dapeng, Yin Yue, Cai Yuee, Lu Bing and Wang Yuan as partners at the firm’s Beijing headquarters

Two Indonesian law firms William & Hendrik and Siregar & Djojonegoro have merged into William Hendrik & Siregar Djojonegoro (WH&SD)

Phuong Tran has joined Allen & Gledhill as a partner in Ho Chi Minh City

Ogier claims to have become the first offshore law firm with an office in mainland China, having opened in Shanghai in July

SEBI fined Enam Securities INR2.5 million for lapses during Yes Bank’s IPO due to lack of due diligence