When a majority shareholder wants to sell a Singapore company, one of the most common deal-breakers is the minority shareholder who refuses to sell, holds out for a higher price, or simply cannot be located. Drag-along rights exist to solve this problem — they allow majority shareholders (or a defined threshold of shareholders) to require [...]
For decades, when a Singapore company's statutory audit was completed, the audit report was signed in the name of the firm — "Ernst & Young LLP", "Deloitte & Touche LLP", or any of the hundreds of smaller audit practices registered with ACRA. The individual public accountant who actually conducted and was responsible for the engagement [...]
On 6 May 2026, key provisions of the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 commenced operation in Singapore. This is one of the most significant updates to the Companies Act in recent years — and if your company has not yet reviewed its governance arrangements, you are already behind. The changes are not incremental. [...]
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Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration in Singapore is mandatory once your business crosses the S$1 million taxable turnover threshold — but the obligations around it are more nuanced than many business owners realise. With new InvoiceNow requirements introduced in 2025 and 2026, and enhanced IRAS enforcement, this is the right time for every Singapore [...]
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Something changed quietly on 6 May 2026 that will affect every Singapore company that goes through a statutory audit. With the commencement of selected provisions of the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025, every statutory audit report of a Singapore-incorporated company must now identify — by name — the public accountant who was primarily [...]
Singapore's Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 commenced 6 May 2026. Director fines now up to S$20,000. AML disqualification, audit partner naming rules explained.
One of the more technical introductions in the first tranche of the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025, which commenced on 6 May 2026, is a new statutory mechanism for selective off-market acquisition of shares. In plain terms: a Singapore company can now buy back shares from one or more identified shareholders, off-market, with [...]
If you have read a Singapore-law shareholders' agreement in the past five years, you have almost certainly seen a clause titled "Drag-Along Rights". It looks technical and is often skipped over in negotiation. That is a mistake. Drag-along rights determine, in plain language, whether the majority shareholders can force you to sell your shares on [...]