Archive:April 12, 2023

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Singapore: MAS Publishes Observations From Inspection of Venture Capital Fund Managers
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People’s Republic of China: Overseas Listing via VIE Structure Becoming Subject to CSRC Filings

Singapore: MAS Publishes Observations From Inspection of Venture Capital Fund Managers

By Edward Bennett and Jordan Seah

Earlier this year, selected market participants were issued a report from MAS on observations from its 2022 inspection of licensed Venture Capital Fund Managers (“VCFMs”).

Having requested that MAS publish its report more widely, the circular is now publicly available here.

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People’s Republic of China: Overseas Listing via VIE Structure Becoming Subject to CSRC Filings

By Chloe Duan and Grace Ye

As one of a series of new regulations reforming the securities offering regime by China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) released in February 2023, Trial Administrative Measures of Overseas Securities Offering and Listing by Domestic Companies (the Measures) came into effect on 31 March 2023. The Measures require companies incorporated within Mainland China seeking offerings and listings of securities in overseas markets (Overseas Offering and Listing) to make filings with CSRC. The Measures are applicable to both direct listings and indirect listings (e.g., red chips, via Variable Interest Entity (VIE) structure, or via Special Purpose Acquisition Company). Hence, VIE is no longer a grey-area scheme for Chinese companies to be listed in overseas markets.   

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