Dentons LuatViet is pleased to announce that we have advised Daikin Air Conditioning (Vietnam) Joint Stock Company on all aspects of Vietnam competition law, including developing strategies to address potential competition concerns, in connection with its acquisition of Anh Nguyen Solutions Joint Stock Company. The transaction was cleared by the Vietnam Competition Commission following its examination.

Kurt B. Gerstner, a Senior Attorney at Dentons Lee, has been recognized in Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal)’s Product Liability Defence 2025 guide and South Korea – Product Liability Defence 2025 guide.

Singapore: This article highlights the key reforms introduced under the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025, with the first tranche taking effect on 6 May 2026, aimed at strengthening corporate governance, enhancing accountability and shareholder protection, and streamlining compliance for companies.

New Zealand: On 4 May 2026 the Financial Markets Authority released its ‘Consultation: Related party transactions insights’. Despite its title, the Consultation Paper takes the form of a regulatory guidance on related party transactions involving registered managed investment schemes (MIS), punctuated by a number of consultation questions. Strip out those questions, and you have the guidance. In this Financial Law insight, we take a bird’s eye view of the Consultation Paper and the regulatory settings for RPBs, pluck out a couple of aspects of potential concern with the draft FMA position and consider what’s missing.

Canada: Construction contracts often include arbitration clauses, providing parties with an alternative path to dispute outside of court. In a recent BC Supreme Court decision, the Court ordered a stay of a lawsuit filed by an owner in favour of arbitration, concluding that although the owner was not technically a signatory to the construction contract containing the arbitration clause, there was an arguable case the owner could be bound by the arbitration clause.

Australia: A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia considered an application under Section 444GA of the Act where Administrators of a Deed of Company Arrangement sought leave to transfer the shares of an insolvent company to in circumstances where that transfer of shares would result in a return to shareholders of the insolvent company which the court referred to as “unique”.