This article is second in a series entitled A New Corporate Landscape: Key Changes under the Companies Bill 2015 that our clients should know about. Since our first article in this A New Corporate Landscape series, the Companies Bill 2015 has received royal assent and has been gazetted as the Companies Act 2016 (from hereon [...]
As alerted in the last issue of The Legal Link, the Securities Commission (SC) had in August 2016 launched the revised Malaysian Code on Takeover and Mergers 2016 (“revised Takeover Code”), together with the accompanying Rules on Takeovers, Mergers and Compulsory Acquisition 2016 (“new Takeover Rules”). The revised Takeover Code sets out 12 general principles [...]
Janice Gan provides an overview of the implications for housing developers from the recent amendments to the Housing Development (Control & Licensing) Act 1966 The Housing Development (Control & Licensing) Act 1966 (“HDA”) is an Act to provide for the control and licensing of housing development in Peninsular Malaysia as well as protecting the interest [...]