by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 31, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
Most people picture a Singapore company as a private limited company with shares and shareholders. But there is another form that suits a very different purpose: the company limited by guarantee. It has no share capital and no shareholders. Instead it has members who...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 31, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Since 2017, every Singapore company has been legally required to know who really owns and controls it, and to write that information down in a register. That register is the Register of Registrable Controllers, universally shortened to the RORC. It is one of the most...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 31, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
Every company incorporated in Singapore must have a company secretary. It is not an optional back-office role or a title you hand out for convenience. The company secretary is a statutory officer under the Companies Act 1967, and the law is specific about who can hold...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Sometimes the danger in a company dispute is not that money will disappear, but that a specific asset will. A director on the way out sells the company’s only property to an associate at an undervalue. A controlling shareholder tries to transfer the business...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
A shareholders’ agreement is only as strong as the remedies available when someone breaks it. When a shareholder is about to do something the agreement forbids — transfer shares in breach of a pre-emption clause, vote against an agreed position, compete...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Becoming a Singapore Permanent Resident is a milestone — but many new PRs are surprised to learn that PR status is not automatically permanent in the everyday sense of the word. To travel in and out of Singapore, and indeed to remain a PR at all while overseas,...
