Short-Term Accommodation (“STA”) or Short-Term Rental Accommodation (“STRA”) has become a popular option amongst tourists, offering affordably priced accommodation coupled with different choices of…

On 28 October 2022, the State Administration Council passed a new law on Organisation Registration (“OR 2022”) repealing the previous Registration of Organisation Law…

Introduction: real estate fund structures Real estate funds in Singapore, whether listed or unlisted, have conventionally been constituted as unit trusts. A unit trust…

On 19 September 2022, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued Memorandum Circular No. 8, series of 2022, or the Guidelines on the…

On 16 September 2022, the Department of Labor and Employment (“DOLE”) passed the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (“IRR”) of the Philippine Telecommuting Act….

Introduction: what is venture debt? In this increasingly austere period of fundraising, debt financing is for many start-ups the only option to tide over…

The Microfinance Supervisory Committee of the Ministry of Planning and Finance has issued Directive No.4/2022 (“Directive”) to implement anti-money laundering and combating the financing…

On 15 September 2022, the Cabinet-level Committee on the Build-Operate-Transfer (“BOT”) Law Implementing Rules and Regulations (“IRR”) approved new revisions to the recently amended…

On 7 September 2022, the Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”) published the first two guidelines in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act B.E….

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (“BSP”), in Circular No. 1153, series of 2022, approved the adoption of the Regulatory Sandbox Framework (the “Framework”). The…