Digital & Fintech

Rajah & Tann Singapore advised Hoyoverse, a global interactive entertainment brand owned by game developer miHoYo, on various legal issues relating to e-sports and metaverse, including internet content regulation, gaming, personal data protection and consumer protection laws. Genshin Impact is an action role-playing game developed by miHoYo and published by miHoYo in mainland China and …

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Rajah & Tann Myanmar acted for Myanma Apex Bank (“MAB”) in their strategic partnership with True Money to undertake mobile financial services in Myanmar. As part of the strategic partnership, MAB will support True Money’s customers in domestic remittance and other payment services, including e-wallet functionalities. The partnership allows for comprehensive financial services to be …

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Rajah & Tann Singapore led the first successful debt restructuring of a cryptocurrency company using Singapore’s restructuring regime. In April 2023, the applicant company, Defi Payments Pte Ltd, obtained leave of the Singapore Court to convene a meeting of creditors for the purposes of presenting a scheme of arrangement for voting by its creditors (“Scheme”). …

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Rajah & Tann Singapore successfully acted for plaintiff in obtaining the first ever proprietary and mareva injunction against “persons unknown” for stolen cryptocurrency in Singapore in CLM v CLN [2022] SGHC 46. This is the leading authority on two novel questions of law:- (1) can stolen cryptocurrency be subject to a proprietary injunction; and (2) …

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Rajah & Tann Singapore was engaged by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (“UNCTAD”) to support the UNCTAD TrainForTrade blended learning course on Digital Identity for Trade and Development (“DITD”) for the Small Island Developing States (“SIDS”) of Africa, the Caribbean and Asia and the Pacific. We were previously engaged by UNCTAD in 2019 …

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Rajah & Tann Singapore has been assisting the Association of Banks in Singapore (“ABS”) with drafting and negotiating the contracts relating to the development and implementation of the Trade Finance Registry (“TFR”) platform, including the developer and operator vendor agreements, as well as the participant rulebook. We also advised the ABS on relevant regulatory issues …

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