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Government Investigations in Singapore 2025
We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
A number of recent cases involving blockchain platforms illustrate the difficulties that sometimes emerge in understanding what roles software coders do and don’t play when it comes to such systems, and thus whether they may potentially be faced with liability.
Some 425 years ago, a villainous character in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI, Part II” famously exclaimed, “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers” (Act IV, Scene II). Were Shakespeare today a lawyer litigating blockchain cases, would his character be suggesting that the first thing we should do is sue the software coders, or even the code itself?
A number of recent cases involving blockchain platforms illustrate the difficulties that sometimes emerge in understanding what roles software coders do and don’t play when it comes to such systems, and thus whether they may potentially be faced with liability. These cases also show how confusion can arise in distinguishing between code itself and the actions and interests of the humans and entities who may lie behind that code.
Robert A. Schwinger explores recent developments in this edition of his New York Law Journal Blockchain law column.
Download the full New York Law Journal article, "Going after blockchain coders—and perhaps even the code?"
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We have contributed the Singapore chapter of Getting the Deal Through, Government Investigations 2025.
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The private credit market and direct lending have grown and diversified immensely in the past decade, offering alternative sources and terms of debt compared to those historically provided by the syndicated leveraged loan and public issuance markets. Consequently, they are fast becoming pivotal components in the capital ecosystem, so much so that the Bank of England consider that the private credit market is currently responsible for approximately $1.8 trillion of debt issuance, which is four times its size in 2015. This growth has been particularly pronounced in Europe and the US but there has also been significant activity in Asia.
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The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Regulation, commonly referred to as the AI Act, is expected to come into force during the summer of 2024 (the AI Act). The AI Act will be the first comprehensive legal framework for the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI), and is intended to ensure that AI systems developed and used in the EU are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory and environmentally friendly.
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