Since 6 May 2026, Singapore companies with more than one class of shares have had to operate under a new statutory floor when it comes to changing the rights attached to any class. The Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 (CALA 2025) codifies, for the first time in the Companies Act 1967, a minimum [...]
Extension of Time for Financial Statement Audit Completion: A Different Deadline From the AGM and Annual Return EOT Directors sometimes ask whether there is a separate "extension of time" they can apply for when their auditor simply has not finished the audit yet. It is an understandable question: the audit is often the single biggest [...]
Sector compliance — F&B, healthcare, education, fintech — Documents required and templates. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA complian...
From 31 December 2026, organisations must stop using NRIC numbers as an authentication factor. Here's what this PDPC deadline means for company secretaries' KYC and onboarding checks.
Sections 162 and 163 of the Companies Act make most loans from a Singapore company to its directors, or to people connected with them, a criminal offence. Here's what's actually allowed.
Shelf companies are legal in Singapore, but the premium price rarely justifies the due diligence gaps. Here is what to check before buying one.
Singapore PDPA compliance for SMEs: required documents and templates, DPO appointment, breach notification, and the NRIC authentication deadline.
Singapore's Companies Act (Cap. 50) contains a rule that catches many directors off guard: a company generally cannot use its own money, or its own assets, to help someone buy its shares. This is the "financial assistance" prohibition in Section 76, and it sits quietly in the background of ordinary corporate life until a shareholder [...]
A managing director based in London needs someone to stand in her seat at Singapore board meetings while she is travelling for a quarter. A family business wants a trusted lieutenant to vote on the founder’s behalf during a long medical leave. Both scenarios point to the same underused tool in Singapore company law: the [...]
A single wrong entry in a company’s register of members rarely looks urgent. It might be a shareholder’s name spelt slightly differently from their NRIC, a transfer that was recorded a week late, or an allotment that never quite made it onto the record after a fundraising round. Until, that is, the company needs to [...]