Every Singapore private limited company must have at least one director who is ordinarily resident in Singapore. For foreign entrepreneurs, international businesses, and offshore holding companies that have no physical presence here, this creates a practical challenge: who fills that role? The answer is often a nominee director — a person appointed to serve as [...]
Treasury shares are a lesser-known but practically significant feature of Singapore company law. When a company buys back its own shares and holds them — rather than cancelling them — those shares become treasury shares. They sit on the company's books in a kind of corporate limbo: neither outstanding nor cancelled, carrying no voting rights, [...]
When founders compare corporate secretarial services in Singapore, price is usually the first filter. A quick search throws up packages ranging from a few hundred dollars to well over a thousand dollars a year, and the temptation is to pick the cheapest option that covers the legal minimum. This approach often works — right up [...]
When a Singapore private limited company prepares to raise venture capital — whether a seed round, a Series A, or a later-stage financing — the company secretary becomes one of the most important people in the deal. Investors, their lawyers, and the company's own counsel will scrutinise the statutory records and corporate governance framework before [...]
RORC and beneficial-owner register under CSP Act 2024 — Documents required and templates. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance...
Annual Return (AR) filing with ACRA — Documents required and templates. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance. Practical 2026 w...
Annual General Meeting (AGM) — dispensing, EOT, virtual — Documents required and templates. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA complian...
When a company grants a charge over its assets — whether to secure a bank loan, a bond issue, or a debenture — the charge must be registered with the Registrar of Companies (ACRA) within a prescribed period. In Singapore, that period is 30 days from the date of creation of the charge. What happens [...]
Hiring your first employee is a significant milestone for any Singapore company — and one that comes with a set of statutory obligations that every employer must meet from day one. Get it right and you build a compliant, productive team. Get it wrong and you face MOM investigations, CPF penalties, and potential employment disputes. [...]
Every Singapore company that buys equipment, furniture, computers, or other business assets is entitled to claim capital allowances — tax deductions that reduce chargeable income over time. Yet capital allowances are one of the most under-utilised tax reliefs in Singapore, largely because the rules under the Income Tax Act are not well understood outside of [...]