When a majority shareholder agrees to sell their stake to a buyer, there is often a sticking point: the buyer wants 100% of the company, but minority shareholders may be reluctant to sell, are holding out for a higher price, or are simply unresponsive. Drag-along rights are the contractual mechanism that resolves this impasse — [...]

Attracting and retaining strong employees in Singapore's competitive labour market often requires more than a salary. Equity-based incentive schemes — whether real shares, options over shares, or cash-linked equivalents — give employees a stake in the company's success and align their interests with those of founders and shareholders over the long term. For private companies [...]

When a Singapore company reaches a point of irreconcilable breakdown — whether through deadlock between shareholders, the collapse of the mutual trust on which the enterprise was founded, or the abandonment of its original purpose — the court may order the company wound up on the ground that it is "just and equitable" to do [...]