EGM mechanics: resolutions, quorum and minutes: Common mistakes and rejection reasons
EGM mechanics in Singapore: how to convene an EGM, resolutions, quorum and minutes. Common mistakes company secretaries make, and how to avoid them.
DTSP Licensing in Singapore: MAS Requirements Under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2022
Since 30 June 2025, a Singapore incorporated company, or an individual or partnership operating from a Singapore address, that provides certain digital token services exclusively to customers outside Singapore can no longer sit outside the Monetary Authority of Singapore's licensing net simply because it has no local customers. Part 9 of the Financial Services and [...]
Whistleblowing Policies for Singapore Private Companies: What the Law Actually Requires
Singapore has no direct equivalent of the United Kingdom's public interest disclosure regime or the United States' Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd Frank whistleblower provisions. There is no single statute that gives a Singapore employee immunity from retaliation simply because they reported wrongdoing at work. That gap surprises many directors, especially after the Corporate and Accounting [...]
Drag-along, tag-along and shareholder agreements: Common mistakes and rejection reasons
Drag-along, tag-along and shareholder agreements: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance...
Striking off and members’ voluntary winding up: Common mistakes and rejection reasons
Striking off and members' voluntary winding up: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance....
Capital reduction (court vs solvency): Common mistakes and rejection reasons
Capital reduction (court vs solvency): Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance. Practical...
Single Family Office vs Multi-Family Office in Singapore: Costs, Control and Which Structure Fits
Singapore has become the default answer when a wealthy family asks where to base its wealth management operation in Asia. That success has created a choice that trips up many principals: should the family build its own Single Family Office (SFO), or should it join, or later spin up, a Multi-Family Office (MFO) serving several [...]
Purpose Trusts Holding PTC Shares in Singapore: The Governance Mechanic Behind “Orphan” Private Trust Company Structures
When a family sets up a Private Trust Company (PTC) to act as trustee of the family's wealth, one question is rarely asked out loud: who owns the PTC itself? If a family member holds the PTC's shares personally, those shares sit in that person's own estate, are exposed to that person's creditors and marital [...]
Share buybacks under CALA 2026: Common mistakes and rejection reasons
Share buybacks under CALA 2026: common mistakes and rejection reasons. Practical 2026 guide for Singapore company secretaries.
Share transfers and stamp duty on shares: Common mistakes and rejection reasons
Share transfers and stamp duty on shares: common mistakes and rejection reasons. Practical 2026 guide for Singapore company secretaries.