by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company
When a buyer wants to acquire 100% of a Singapore private company but a handful of minority shareholders refuse to sell, the Companies Act provides a statutory squeeze-out mechanism under section 215. Properly invoked, it allows a buyer who has already acquired 90% or...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company
A patent gives your company the legal right to stop others from making, using or selling your invention in Singapore for up to 20 years. For technology businesses, life sciences companies, advanced manufacturing and any SME with a genuinely novel product, securing a...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 10, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company
A trade mark is one of the most valuable intangible assets a Singapore business can own. It protects brand identity, gives the owner exclusive rights to use the mark in connection with the registered goods and services, and provides a statutory basis for stopping...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company
Preference shares are a frequently overlooked but powerful tool in Singapore corporate finance. They sit at the intersection of debt and equity, offering structural flexibility that ordinary shares alone cannot match. For venture capital and private equity investors,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 6, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company
A bonus issue (or “scrip issue”) is the issue of additional shares by a Singapore company to its existing shareholders, free of charge, in proportion to their existing holdings. No cash changes hands. Instead, the company capitalises part of its reserves —...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 3, 2026 | Growing Your Company
MAS AML / CFT for licensed entities — Complete 2026 guide MAS AML / CFT for licensed entities is the framework that every Singapore-licensed financial institution must implement to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing. It sits...
