Corporate and Commerial Law

Singapore Flip Structure: How to structure a flip structure for Singapore Companies with India/China founders

翻转结构: 如何为印度、境内启动公司的发起人在新加坡设立境外的控股公司 Singapore Flip Structure: Many startup founders decide to raise offshore funding when expanding in large markets like China or India and it is at this stage, founders realise that they have local PRC/India legal obligations that they need to comply with.  In fact, not many people know that Flipkart the largest ecommerce player […]

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SME Founder : Why enter into Buy-Sell Agreements

SME Founder: Have you heard of a situation whereby two SME Founders start a successful business and then the business falls apart after one of the two founders passes away?  One reason for this is that the children of one founder (from their inheritance) have different ideas on running the business from the remaining founder. 

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知识产权控股公司: 如何在新加坡设立知识产权控股公司 /How to set up a Singapore intellectual property holding company

Singapore is a member of the Berne Convention which protects Copyright across member countries that are signatories to such treaty.  It is also a major hub for multi-national companies and as a national policy is focused on the protection of intellectual property rights for intellectual property rights owners.  Singapore is also a member of the

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Startup Founder : Trade sale options for startup founders

Startup Founder: Every year we see eye-popping merger and acquisition transactions and in this period of tech startups. For example In December 2020, Salesforce the Global MNC SAAS company acquired Slack for 27.7 billion and Chipmaker Nvidia in Sept 2020 acquired UK Chipmarker Arm for $40 billion.  Any potential sale transaction poses many legal issues

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Share Purchase Agreement Singapore : 5 Key Legal Issues To Note

Share Purchase Agreement Singapore : 5 Key Legal Issues To Note Share Purchase Agreement Singapore : Starting and growing a company is the dream of many an entrepreneur in Singapore but many at the point of selling their company (as a seller) are quite mystified with the legal concepts of a sale of shares.  This

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Understanding term sheets for Singapore Startups

Singapore Startups need to understand term sheets when negotiating each new funding round.  This article will set out a few key terms that a startup founder needs to know when reading term sheets from VCs.  #1: Board Representation for a Singapore Startup When a startup negotiates a term sheet, one of the most important thing

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RTO: How to list your SME company on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited via a reverse takeover transaction

RTO:  How to list your SME company on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited via a reverse takeover transaction Updated on 9th Oct 2023 Reverse Takeover Transaction Singapore – There are 4 ways for a business to be listed on the Singapore stock exchange (SGX).  Listing by way of introduction, listing by way of an

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SG Startup Business : 7 Tips to note when negotiating a term sheet with venture capital investors

SG Startup Business: The economics of negotiating a deal with venture capital investors is always different when negotiating with angel investors.  At the venture capital funding stage, the VC investors would want to see traction with users and a minimum viable product.  Some VCs will tag investment into several stages depending on whether the start

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IPO Singapore – Preparing your SME Company for an initial public offering on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited

IPO Singapore – Singapore is still a good place for IPO listing with its global investor base and global issuer base.  Many business owners have companies that have raised investment capital so need to give an exit to their investors without paying out cash or alternatively some companies need investment capital at a late stage

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SG Startup Company :  5 key points to note when raising seed funding

SG Startup Company: Seed investing as a concept largely originated from Silicon Valley and unlike most traditional business ventures where the shareholding is dependant on bargaining and negotiation and the amount of money invested into a venture, the seed investor in that funding round will usually get about between 15% to 20% of the shares

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