A Singapore company involved in litigation often needs evidence that is not sitting in its own files or its opponent's files at all. It is sitting with a bank, an auditor, a corporate secretary, a former employee, or some other outsider who has nothing to do with the dispute but happens to hold a document, [...]
A company's records are only as reliable as the register they sit in, and that register is not one document but several: the company's own internal registers, and the registers that ACRA, as Registrar, keeps under the Companies Act 1967. When something in an ACRA-held register turns out to be wrong, most directors reach instinctively [...]
When a Singapore family sets up a private trust company (PTC) to act as trustee of the family's wealth, the governance question that eventually surfaces is not who owns the PTC's shares, it is who actually controls what the PTC does once nobody in the ordinary sense "owns" it. In an orphan structure, where the [...]
When a Singapore company needs to go to court, whether to restore a struck-off entity, resolve a shareholder dispute, rectify the register of members, or wind up a company that has run its course, the business owner is often already working with a corporate service provider (CSP) for the day-to-day secretarial and compliance side of [...]
When a takeover offer for a Singapore private or public company attracts acceptances from holders of 90% or more of the target's shares, the offeror does not need to keep chasing the last few holdouts. Section 215 of the Companies Act 1967 lets the offeror serve notice on any dissenting shareholder and compulsorily buy out [...]
On 26 June 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore issued Circular No. IID 04/2025, Governance and Management of Variable Capital Companies (VCCs), addressed to chief executive officers of fund management companies holding a Capital Markets Services licence and to institutions exempt from that licence. The circular set out the findings of a thematic review MAS [...]
Tax and CPF treatment differences for a sole proprietorship, LLP and Pte Ltd in Singapore, with CPF, Medisave and personal liability compared.
Foreign director vs local director requirements for a Singapore Pte Ltd: who qualifies, nominee options, and appointing your resident director.
Subsidiary of foreign parent? Avoid director residency and paid-up capital mistakes that delay ACRA incorporation for your Singapore entity.
A minority shareholder suspects the board has been siphoning value to a related entity, but has no board seat, no access to the accounting records, and no way of knowing whether the suspicion is even worth pleading as an oppression claim. A trade creditor believes a company is insolvent and wants to know who else [...]