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Min-tze Lean

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Min-tze Lean is a principal in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow. He has worked on a number of high-profile corporate headline transactions in Asia, some of which won the "Southeast Asia Deal of the Year" and "Singapore M&A Deal of the Year" awards at the Asian Legal Business Awards. Sources highlight his responsiveness, commerciality and the pragmatic advice he offers. Min-tze has been recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific for his technical legal knowledge and principled approach to structuring solutions to complex legal issues, and his "solution-oriented approach and ability to interface well with regulators". A client commended: "What I like is his expertise. He knows the regulations inside out and what is the market standard and practice". He has also been praised by clients for having "strong grounding in M&A regulations and tactics", Legal 500 Asia Pacific. Min-tze is ranked in Chambers Global and Chambers Asia Pacific as a leading lawyer in Singapore for Corporate/M&A: Domestic.
In Corporate Compliance

Singapore: New corporate disclosures of nominee shareholders and individuals with executive control come into force

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With the coming into force of the Corporate Registers (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2022 on 4 October 2022, the Companies Act 1967 and the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2005 have been amended to subject nominee shareholders and their nominators and individuals with “executive control” over the daily or regular corporate affairs to new disclosure obligations. This further aligns Singapore’s regime on transparency and beneficial ownership of Singapore-incorporated companies, foreign companies and limited liability partnerships with the international standards set by the Financial Action Task Force.

In Asia-Pacific

ACRA Signals Setting up of Central Register of Controllers, Disclosure of Nominee Shareholder’s Nominators

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Setting up of a Central Non Public Register of Controllers Introduction of Register of Nominee Shareholders for companies At two recent Update Sessions organised by the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) announced several new initiatives, 2 of which being: implementation of a central,…