SFC License Type 9 – FAQs on SFC Asset Management Regulation
In these FAQs on SFC License Type 9, we provide guidance on SFC asset management regulation
The SFC's prioritization of enforcement action against listed companies and their directors for malfeasance has come into sharp focus, with announcements in respect of major cases against companies and their senior management concerning no less than 13 different issuers in the past year alone. Much of the regulatory attention has been concentrated in the area of how listed companies and their executives handle price sensitive information.
Join us for this lunch time seminar as a distinguished panel of speakers discusses the law governing the handling of price sensitive information and how directors can manage such information to comply with regulatory requirements.
This seminar is intended for senior business executives, in-house lawyers and compliance professionals at listed companies.
This seminar includes a buffet style lunch with choice of hot entrees.
Speaker
Timothy Loh, Managing Partner
Mr. Loh has extensive experience advising listed companies on regulatory requirements and handling SFC investigations and other enforcement action. His recent experience includes:
- Defending the non-executive Chairman in Re AcrossAsia, the first case brought by the SFC against a listed company and its directors for a failure to comply with the new statutory obligation to disclose price sensitive information
- Representing Pacific Sun before the Court of Final Appeal in the seminal case defining the scope of the professional investors exemption in investment offers to the public
- Representing Andrew Left in Re Evergrande, the first case anywhere in the world brought by a regulator against an activist short seller alleging market manipulation through the publication of a negative research report
Please join us for this lunch time seminar as a distinguished panel of speakers discusses the law governing the handling of price sensitive information and how directors can manage such information to comply with regulatory requirements.
In these FAQs on SFC License Type 9, we provide guidance on SFC asset management regulation
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