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- SIAC Releases New Arbitration Rules
The rules will come into effect on 1 January 2025, aiming to enhance the overall efficiency and integrity of SIAC’s arbitration proceedings. On 9 December 2024, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) released its new SIAC Rules for 2025 (SIAC Rules 2025), which will come into effect on 1 January 2025.
- Establishing a Business Entity in Singapore (Updated)
Registration of Business Entities - Unless exempted, business entities must be registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) via their business filing portal: BizFile+. A foreigner residing overseas would need to engage the services of a registered filing agent (for example, a law firm, accounting firm or corporate secretarial firm) to submit the online application on his behalf. Goodwins Law Corporation is a registered filing agent.
- Singapore’s New Significant Investments Regime Comes Into Law
The Significant Investments Review Bill (the Bill), introduced by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI), was passed by parliament on 9 January 2023 and is likely to enter into force in mid to late 2024. The Bill aims to protect the national interests of Singapore by regulating significant investment in, and control of, critical entities.
- Singapore’s New Significant Investments Regime
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) introduced the Significant Investments Review Bill (the Bill) to parliament on 6 November 2023. The Bill aims to protect the national interests of Singapore by regulating significant investment in, and control of, critical entities. Entities that are considered critical to Singapore’s national security will be designated under the regime and will be regulated accordingly. The Bill also provides scope for the Minister of Trade and Industry to review transactions involving entities that have acted against Singapore’s national interests, even if such entities are not designated under the Bill. Therefore, the scope of the proposed new legislation is not finite.
- Singapore Expands Scope of Shareholders Excluded for Calculating Compulsory Acquisition Threshold
New legislation strengthening the compulsory acquisition regulatory framework in the Companies Act 1967 is welcome news for minority shareholders. On 9 May 2023 the Parliament of Singapore passed the Companies, Business Trusts and Other Bodies (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (the Bill), which, among other changes, excludes shares held by certain persons connected with the offeror from the computation of the 90% threshold for compulsory acquisition under section 215 of the Companies Act 1967 (the CA). The Bill is expected to come into law later this year. Please see full Alert below for more information.
- Establishing A Business Entity In Singapore (Updated)
Registration of Business Entities - Unless exempted, business entities must be registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) via their business filing portal: BizFile+. A foreigner residing overseas would need to engage the services of a registered filing agent (for example, a law firm, accounting firm or corporate secretarial firm) to submit the online application on his behalf. Goodwins Law Corporation is a registered filing agent. Please see full Chapter below for more information.
- Buying and Selling Real Estate in Singapore (Updated)
KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SINGAPOREAN LAW - INTRODUCTION - There are two systems of land registration in Singapore: registration under the Registrations of Deeds Act, known as “unregistered land”, and registration under the Land Titles Act, known as “registered land”. Currently, most land in Singapore has been converted and brought under the latter registration system. As such, most of this article will be concerned only with land registered under the Land Titles Act. The entity overseeing the land registration in Singapore is the Singapore Land Authority (“SLA”). Please see full Chapter below for more information.
- The Variable Capital Company (VCC): a new corporate structure for funds in Singapore (UPDATED)
The Variable Capital Company (VCC) is a new corporate entity structure under which several collective investment schemes (whether open-end or closed-end) may be gathered under the umbrella of a single corporate entity and yet remain ring-fenced from each other. Please see Publication below for more information.
- Singapore allows “No-Win, No-Fee” and “No-Win, Less-Fee” arrangements for arbitration and SICC proceedings from 4 May 2022
Historically, Singaporean law prohibited third party funding arrangements and outcome-related fee structures (ORFS) such as “No-Win, No-Fee” or “No-Win, Less-Fee”. However, other common law jurisdictions, such as England and Wales and Australia, have relaxed their equivalent laws and now permit some third party funding and ORFS to some extent. Singapore took its first steps towards levelling the playing field when it legalised third party funding for arbitration and the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) proceedings in 2017 and 2021 respectively. However, the prohibitions on ORFS remained. Please see full Publication below for more information.
- Establishing A Business Entity In Singapore (Updated)
Registration of Business Entities - Unless exempted, business entities must be registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) via their business filing portal: BizFile+. A foreigner residing overseas would need to engage the services of a registered filing agent (for example, a law firm, accounting firm or corporate secretarial firm) to submit the online application on his behalf. Goodwins Law Corporation is a registered filing agent. Upon successful registration, the business entity will be issued with a system-generated Unique Entity Number (UEN). The UEN is an identification number that all business entities need to use when transacting with government agencies. Please see full Chapter below for more information.
Featured documents
- Prime Minister of Singapore Moves for Summary Judgment in Novel Defamation Lawsuit
In papers filed today with the High Court of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong moved for summary judgment in his defamation lawsuit against blogger Roy Ngerng Yi Ling. The prime minister’s action is the first defamation suit of its kind against an online critic and has wide-ranging...
- Global Investor Programme – Attracting high net worth individuals to Singapore
High net worth individuals (“HNWI”) looking to relocate to Singapore may wish to consider the Global Investor Programme (“GIP”) for the purposes of obtaining residency status in Singapore. The GIP offers Permanent Resident (“PR”) status to these HNWI to relocate to Singapore or at least move part...
- Remission of stamp duty on certain conveyance directions - Licensed housing developers
Introduction - 1. Where a party (Vendor) enters into an agreement (Main Contract) to transfer any immovable property (Property) to another party (Initial Purchaser), and before having obtained a conveyance of the Property, the Initial Purchaser issues a direction in writing (Conveyance...
- Sanctity of an arbitration award: When does a breach of natural justice tip the balance? - A case study of ASG V ASH [2016] SGHC 130
The plaintiff applied to set aside three arbitral awards. The first was awarded on the merits which was challenged on the basis that the arbitrator had totally failed to consider or understand the plaintiff’s evidence and submissions and therefore, there was a breach of natural justice which...
- Singapore Court Rules on Buyout Provisions Under the Companies Act
The seminal ruling dictates when a buyout order under the new Section 254(2A) may be made as an alternative remedy to a winding up order....
- Listing framework for Dual Class Shares - A closer look into safeguards
The subject of Dual Class Shares (DCS) has given rise to much debate in the context of public listed companies. Briefly, a DCS structure departs from the default one-share, one-vote concept by allowing companies to issue different classes of shares with different voting rights (e.g. non-voting...
- Singapore: Consultation Exercise on Draft Cybersecurity Bill
The unveiling of the draft cybersecurity bill sheds light on proposed cybersecurity compliance standards and the broad, sweeping powers of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency....
- Establishing a chain of title - Leveraging blockchain for the real estate industry
Establishing a good title and guaranteeing speedy acquisition of real estate is of paramount importance to investors, funds, and real estate developers. For example, if salient information on prior encumbrances, easements and restrictive covenants is not easily obtainable, land ownership disputes...
- Paving the way for third-party dispute resolution funding in Singapore
The Civil Law (Amendment) Act 2017 - In 2017 Parliament aligned Singapore with other leading arbitration jurisdictions, such as London, Paris and Geneva, in embracing third-party funding as a viable method in increasing the access to justice of parties involved in specific arbitration...
- Singapore Announces Greater Project Financing Support
During the recent Budget Statement for 2018, Singapore’s Ministry of Finance announced the creation of an Infrastructure Office to be established by Enterprise Singapore and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The Infrastructure Office is intended to connect stakeholders, enable information...