CORPORATE FINANCE

Our Corporate Finance and Commercial Group provides services relating to:-

• Asset securitisation
  
• Initial public offerings and secondary listings on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited, including placements and rights issues
  
• Listing of bonds, notes and other debentures of foreign companies and local public listed companies
  
• Offerings of securities and interests including unit trusts
  
• Convertible securities including bonds, notes and debentures
  
• Corporate restructuring and schemes of arrangement, including capital reduction
  
• Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers under the Singapore Code of Take-overs and Mergers
  
• Interested person transactions under the SGX Listing Manual
  
• Insider trading
  
• Fund management and establishment of funds
  
• Venture capital investments and related transactions
  
• Sale and purchase of shares and businesses
  
• Subscription agreements
  
• Joint venture, partnership and shareholders' agreements
  
• Due diligence exercises
  
• Intellectual property documentation including franchising, distributorship, agency, technical assistance agreements, computer law (see also the services provided by the Technology Department)
  
• Hotel management agreements
  
• Management agreements, consultancy agreements, service contracts
  
• Employee share option schemes
  
• Corporate secretarial matters
  
• Formation and incorporation of all business and corporate entities, including the establishment of fund management and other financial institutions in Singapore
  
• Insurance matters including establishment of insurance corporations and schemes of transfers under the Insurance Act
  
• Employment and immigration matters
  
• Stamp duty, including under Section 15 of the Stamp Duties Act
  
• Compliance by companies with all statutory and regulatory requirements, including the Singapore Companies Act, the Securities and Futures Act, the Moneylenders Act, the SGX Listing Manual and requirements of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Our corporate practice  involves complex and major corporate transactions. These transactions are handled by lawyers familiar with the pressures of time and market forces, and who also ensure that the expressed and perceived needs of the clients have priority.

The above is integral and critical to any corporate practice. We represent corporations for whom we provide a full range of advice on matters relevant to corporate activity.  Clients depend on reliable yet creative solutions in effecting their commercial objectives, especially in the restructuring of companies, schemes of arrangement and share buy-backs.

We base our advice on our knowledge and understanding of the Singapore business environment. The ability to focus legal resources in these circumstances at short notice is often critical to the outcome of the transaction.