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 [...]
A supplier's finance manager receives a signed deed of guarantee. One director's signature is on it, witnessed by a colleague. The company's constitution actually requires two directors to sign anything over a certain value, and this director signed alone. Is the company bound anyway? This is not a hypothetical worry. It is the exact fact [...]
Annual Return (AR) filing with ACRA: Frequently asked questions. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance. Practical 2026 walkthrough covering deadlines, fees, and requirements.
On 28 August 2026, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop the Company Director Fundamentals (CDF) programme, a structured training curriculum aimed at every director sitting on a Singapore company board, from first-time appointees at family businesses to seasoned independent [...]
Deed of Novation vs Deed of Assignment: Transferring Contracts Alongside a Singapore Share Transfer When a Singapore private company changes hands, the share transfer itself is usually the easy part. A signed instrument of transfer, board approval, an updated register of members and the ACRA notice under section 126 of the Companies Act 1967 will [...]
Annual General Meeting (AGM): dispensing, EOT, virtual: Frequently asked questions. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance.
Company Secretary statutory duties under the Companies Act: Frequently asked questions. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance.
When a Singapore private company is struck off the register or wound up, most directors assume the story ends the moment ACRA's final gazette notice is published. It rarely does. Companies routinely leave behind small pockets of cash: an overlooked bank balance, an unclaimed tax credit from IRAS, a dividend cheque nobody banked, or a [...]
When a Singapore family sets up a private trust company (PTC) to act as trustee of the family's wealth, the governance question that eventually surfaces is not who owns the PTC's shares, it is who actually controls what the PTC does once nobody in the ordinary sense "owns" it. In an orphan structure, where the [...]
On 26 June 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore issued Circular No. IID 04/2025, Governance and Management of Variable Capital Companies (VCCs), addressed to chief executive officers of fund management companies holding a Capital Markets Services licence and to institutions exempt from that licence. The circular set out the findings of a thematic review MAS [...]