Corporations Law

30 Apr 2012

As Hong Kong entrepreneurs from the 1960s pass retirement age, their families are faced with the often difficult problems of succession. Liana Cafolla talks to both business experts and family...

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Business Digest

6 Aug 2012

Mainland regulator may cap staff shares at 10pc

11:04PM

Hontex ruling a valuable deterrent

23 Jun 2012

Hong Kong ranks as one of the IPO capitals of the world, but it faces stiff competition from New York, London and Shanghai. If the city wants to maintain its position as an important fund-raising...

6:16PM

Disliked headcount rule to be replaced

29 May 2012

The government has decided to abolish the unpopular 'headcount rule' governing the process of taking a company private.

4:05PM

Get only the financial experts on board

29 May 2012

JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon has accepted responsibility for the 'hedging' losses at the bank and presided over the mandatory human sacrifices of foot soldiers. But what is the role and...

4:05PM

Cost cuts to aid business

26 Mar 2012

Following a waiver of business registration fees from 2010 to 2011, the financial secretary proposed in his budget reintroducing the practice for a year starting next month.

11:15AM

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

Updated 7:12AM

Public approval at the heart of company caring awards

When the Caring Company award was launched 10 years ago, those of us involved saw it as a way to encourage the creation of closer ties between the business sector and, via social service groups,...

5:16AM

Firm bosses still pulling double duty

More than a quarter of locally listed companies still have the same person functioning both as chairman and chief executive in violation of a code of corporate governance laid down by the Hong...

4:58AM

Companies facing board juggling act

Get one in, or kick one out? That's the dilemma many listed Hong Kong companies are facing as the deadline looms for them to rejig their boards of directors in compliance with a new listing...

4:58AM

Law of demand

Despite the European debt crisis, 2012 still appears promising, and the legal recruitment industry looks set to continue to cruise.

4:45AM

Connected dealings and other sinkholes

The typical listed company is a well-oiled funding machine: it can borrow from banks, it can sell shares, it can issue bonds, it can seek advances from suppliers, and so on.

12:05AM

Charity events would not be out of place in a democratic socialist society

During the Occupy Central protest last month, I gave my views on charity events like the Central Rat Race ('Anti-Wall Street protest reaches Asia's capitals', October 16).

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