If you are a founder, investor, or director of a Singapore private company, you have almost certainly encountered the term "drag-along rights" in the context of a shareholders' agreement. These rights are one of the most consequential — and often most contentious — provisions in any investment agreement or shareholders' agreement, yet many business owners [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
When founders and investors negotiate a Singapore shareholders' agreement, two clauses tend to dominate the exit discussion: drag-along rights and tag-along rights. Of the two, drag-along is by far the more contentious — and the more powerful. A well-drafted drag-along clause can be the difference between a clean 100% sale of your company and a [...]
The Register of Registrable Controllers (RORC) has quietly become the most heavily enforced ACRA register in 2026. Two reinforcing developments have driven this: the higher penalty regime introduced by the first tranche of the CALA Act 2025 on 6 May 2026, which raised the maximum fine for register failures to S$25,000, and the parallel rollout [...]
One of the most quietly significant changes in the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 (CALA Act) — which commenced its first tranche on 6 May 2026 — is the new permission for a sole director to also serve as the company secretary of a Singapore private company. For more than five decades, Section [...]
The first tranche of the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 (CALA Act) commenced on 6 May 2026, marking the most significant overhaul of Singapore's company law in over a decade. ACRA published its commencement notice on 16 April 2026, giving directors and company secretaries roughly three weeks to prepare. If you are a [...]
Getting your Singapore government grant approved is the easy part. The harder part — and the part that determines whether your grant actually pays out — is the post-approval phase: project execution, milestone tracking, claim submission, audit, and disbursement. This is where many SMEs stumble, and where claims get rejected, delayed, or partially clawed back. [...]
Running an e-commerce business in Singapore — whether you sell physical goods, digital services, or operate as an online marketplace — sits at the intersection of three regulatory regimes that did not exist in their current form a decade ago: corporate tax under the Income Tax Act 1947, GST under the Goods and Services Tax [...]
For mature foreign companies eyeing Singapore as their long-term operating base, the inward re-domiciliation regime is one of the most underused tools in the corporate toolkit. Introduced by the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 and operative from 11 October 2017, Singapore's inward re-domiciliation regime allows a qualifying foreign corporate entity to transfer its registration to Singapore [...]