11 June 2019
Cybersecurity & Singapore - Overview of Cybersecurity in Singapore
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/cybersecurity-and-singapore--overview-of-cybersecurity-in-singapore

Recently, the Singapore public health system was hit by a major cyber attack compromising the personal data of an astonishing 1.5 million patients. As a result of this cyber attack of "unprecedented scale and ...

14 June 2019
Singapore Court: setting aside a portion of an arbitral award (BAZ v BBA)
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/singapore-court-setting-aside-a-portion-of-an-arbitral-award-baz-v-bba

This arbitration analysis examines the Singapore High Court’s decision in BAZ v BBA and the implications of having a portion of an international arbitration award set aside as being contrary to a country’s public policy ...

06 June 2019
Court of Appeal renders decision on counterfeit goods in transit, and liability for trade mark infringement
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/ip-legal-update-court-of-appeal-renders-decision-on-counterfeit-goods-in-transit

The Singapore Court of Appeal has clarified that liability for trade mark infringement can be established notwithstanding the fact that the infringing goods were merely in transit and never intended for entry into the ...

14 June 2019
Singapore court: failure to call witness no reason to set aside arbitration award
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/singapore-court-failure-to-call-witness-no-reason-to-set-aside-arbitration-award

This arbitration analysis examines the Singapore High Court's decision in BVU v BVX that an arbitration award would not be set aside on the basis of public policy or fraud simply because the successful party had failed ...

18 January 2019
Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/venture-capital-investment-model-agreements

This is an update on a previous article we published in November last year on the Venture Capital Investment Model Agreements ("VIMA"). The launch of the VIMA is to facilitate early stage financing transactions in ...

25 January 2019
Further Update on New Trade Mark Laws in Myanmar
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/further-update-on-new-trade-mark-laws-in-myanmar

There have been several developments since our last update in July 2018 (click here to view the previous update).

02 July 2019
Cybersecurity & Singapore - Disclosures for Listed Companies
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/cybersecurity-and-singapore-disclosure-for-listed-companies

With the spate of cybersecurity incidents on large listed companies, cybersecurity risk has increasingly become a key point that affects investor risk appetite and companies are now subject to certain disclosure ...

15 January 2019
S$75 Million Grant to Pave the Way to Singapore's Equity Market
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/75-million-grant-to-pave-the-way-to-singapores-equity-market

Come February, enterprises will be able to tap into a S$75 million grant administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for help with fund raising through Singapore's equity market. The Grant for Equity Market ...

06 September 2019
Bird & Bird ATMD selected to participate in the new Payments Regulatory Evaluation Programme
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/bird-and-bird-atmd-selected-to-participate-in-the-new-payments-regulatory-evaluation-programme

New initiative by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law helps payment firms easily access specialised legal services to meet compliance needs

11 July 2019
Making Singapore Patents More Robust
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/singapore/making-singapore-patents-more-robust

The Intellectual Property (Dispute Resolution) Bill was tabled in Parliament this week. The Bill seeks to make extensive changes to how intellectual property ("IP") rights may be enforced in Singapore