When a Singapore company ends up in front of the High Court, whether to restore a struck-off entity, rectify the register of members, validate an improperly issued share, or answer a minority shareholder's oppression petition, someone still has to assemble the paperwork behind the paperwork. Long before a supporting affidavit is affirmed and filed, a [...]
When a Singapore company is hit with one winding-up petition, directors know they have a fight on their hands. But what happens when two different parties file two separate winding-up applications against the same company, weeks apart, on two entirely different legal grounds? That is exactly the scenario the General Division of the High Court [...]
Anyone who has chaired a shareholders' meeting for a Singapore private company knows the moment: a resolution is on the table, a shareholder's vote is cast, and someone in the room raises a question about whether that shareholder should really be allowed to vote at all, usually because their personal interests seem to pull in [...]
When a Singapore company goes into liquidation, the liquidator takes control of the company's assets, investigates its affairs and decides how creditors and members are eventually paid. Most liquidations run their course without incident. But directors, creditors, contributories and even the liquidator's own co-liquidator occasionally reach a point where they believe the person holding office [...]
When a company's litigation runs off the rails, most directors assume the worst that can happen is losing the case. That assumption is wrong. Under Order 21 Rule 6 of the Rules of Court 2021, the Singapore High Court (General Division) can look past the losing party altogether and order that party's own solicitor to [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]