A company's constitution looks like an administrative document until two directors, or a director and a shareholder, read the same clause and reach opposite conclusions about what it means. At that point, the constitution stops being paperwork and becomes the subject of a genuine legal dispute, one that, if it cannot be resolved around the [...]
Every Singapore company director eventually encounters, directly or indirectly, the moment when evidence of wrongdoing exists somewhere just out of reach: an anonymous defamatory post whose author is unknown, a competitor suspected of holding stolen trade secrets, a former employee whose new laptop might contain copied client data before it is wiped. In each of [...]
A shareholder finally clears the hurdle: notice has been given to the board, the court is satisfied the application was made in good faith, and leave has been granted to bring a derivative action on behalf of the company. Months later, the parties start talking settlement. At that point, many directors and even some shareholders [...]
When a company suspects that a director, business partner or counterparty is about to destroy evidence, shift assets or simply disappear, the standard inter partes route for obtaining documents may be too slow. Singapore's civil procedure allows an applicant, in narrow circumstances, to approach the General Division of the High Court without telling the other [...]
A creditor who discovers that a debtor company has quietly filed to strike itself off the register faces a genuine fork in the road. One path is to object to the striking off under section 344C of the Companies Act 1967, using the narrow window ACRA gives before the company disappears. The other is to [...]
When a dispute lands in the Singapore courts, the documents and electronic records that decide the case rarely sit neatly in one place. Emails live on cloud servers, WhatsApp threads sit on personal phones, accounting records are hosted on third-party software, and board deliberations are scattered across shared drives and messaging apps. For companies involved [...]
From 1 April 2026, Amendment No. 1 of 2026 to the Supreme Court Practice Directions changed how contested asset-freezing injunctions are heard and added a new checklist for creditors seeking bankruptcy orders.
When a company's financial statements do not comply with the Companies Act 1967 or the Accounting Standards, the first port of call is usually a quiet, voluntary fix by the board. But what happens when the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) is not satisfied with the directors' explanation, or the directors and the Registrar [...]
A scheme of arrangement is meant to be the product of negotiation, not litigation. Directors and their advisers spend months structuring terms, circulating an explanatory statement, and persuading creditors or shareholders to vote in favour before the matter ever reaches the General Division of the High Court for sanction. So what happens when a creditor [...]
When a shareholder, creditor, judgment holder, or foreign litigant needs company records for a Singapore dispute, the first instinct is often "just get it from ACRA." In reality, that instinct is only half right. The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) holds a narrow band of public filings that anyone can buy over the counter [...]