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When a Singapore company goes into liquidation, its liquidator inherits every contract and every piece of property the company held, including the bad ones. An unprofitable lease on premises the business no longer needs, a supply contract locked in at above-market rates, or shares in a subsidiary that costs more to maintain than it is [...]