
Stefanie Yuen Thio
Joint Managing Partner
Expertise
- Capital Markets
- Corporate/Commercial Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
TSMP Law Corporation
Singapore
WSG Leadership
DealMaker GroupIt is about Foreigners or Fairness?
TSMP Law Corporation, September 2020
The issue is not foreign talent but transparency in the process. DBS was last week named world’s best bank – the third consecutive year it has received such accolade. It was thus more than a little ironic that in the same week, its chief executive Piyush Gupta was cited by a Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) as a disappointing example of a non “home-grown” CEO. Mr Gupta has been a Singapore citizen since 2009 and has helmed DBS for more than a decade...
When is a Financial Institution not a Financial Institution? When it’s Wirecard
TSMP Law Corporation, August 2020
How Wirecard skirted regulatory scrutiny by jurisdiction-shopping and canny intra-group structuring. It would have been the quintessential business success story. Founded in Munich in 1999, this small payment processor for online gambling and pornography sites grew so massive that, by 2018, it had displaced Commerzbank from Germany’s prestigious Dax 30 index. At its peak, the juggernaut was valued at more than €24 billion (S$38.6 billion)...
Of A$$holes, Art and Alternative Asset Classes
TSMP Law Corporation, July 2020
What lies in the new frontier of investment regulation? On May 26, the New York Times reported that the US Justice Department had dropped investigations into three US senators’ stock trades conducted shortly after they had been privately briefed on the novel coronavirus in January. The politicians had dumped millions of dollars of shares in Exxon Mobil, tech giants and real estate companies, some of which later lost value when markets plunged...
Additional Articles
Wrote an article titled "Is Singapore Ready for Dual-Class Shares?" which was published by The Business Times on 14 October 2015 (http://business.asiaone.com/news/singapore-ready-dual-class-shares)
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