by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
The terms “receiver” and “receiver and manager” are often used interchangeably, but in Singapore insolvency law they describe two different offices with two different jobs. A plain receiver takes control of charged assets and turns them into...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
When a lender enforces security over a Singapore company, or a court steps in to protect assets in dispute, a receiver is often appointed to take control. But what can a receiver actually do once appointed, and what duties constrain how they do it? A receiver is not a...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Registering a branch in Singapore is the easy part. Keeping it compliant, year after year, is where foreign parents often stumble. A registered foreign company (a branch) does not file the same annual return as a locally incorporated company, but it does have its own...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
When a Singapore company grants security over its assets to secure a loan, that charge is registered with ACRA so the world can see it. But what happens when the loan is repaid and the security is released? The charge does not disappear from the public register by...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
A foreign company that once registered a branch in Singapore does not simply walk away when it decides to leave. Whether the parent has closed the Singapore operation, restructured into a subsidiary, or wound down the whole group, the branch must be deregistered...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Most Singapore companies pay dividends in cash. But there are times when a company wants to distribute an asset instead, a parcel of shares in a subsidiary, a piece of investment property, or a portfolio of securities, rather than write a cheque. That is a dividend in...
