by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
The last few months before a Singapore company enters liquidation are a legally dangerous time for directors. Cash is short, creditors are calling, and there is a natural temptation to prioritise the loudest, closest or most sympathetic creditor — a supplier who has...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Changing a Singapore company’s name is a common request. Founders rebrand, groups reorganise, and mergers force alignment of trading names. The process itself is simple — ACRA can approve and effect the change in less than a working day — but the ripple effects...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Grant
The Letter of Offer arrives, the celebratory email goes around the office, and everyone feels the grant is done. It isn’t. For every Singapore government grant — from the Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) to the Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) to the Market...
by Willie Tan | Jul 5, 2026 | Running Your Company
Introduction Preparing your company for an exit requires more than financial preparation: it demands disciplined secretarial and governance housekeeping. Preparing Your Company for an Exit: Secretarial and Governance Housekeeping explains the corporate records,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 4, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Every Singapore private company must, in general, hold an Annual General Meeting (AGM) each calendar year — but the actual rules are more nuanced than most directors realise. Since the 2017 amendments to the Companies Act 1967, dormant companies and private companies...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 4, 2026 | Accounting, Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Payroll in Singapore looks simple on paper — a single national social-security scheme (CPF), a well-documented set of statutory contributions, and a mature tax-reporting infrastructure — but employers routinely trip up on the details. Wrong CPF ceilings, missed IR8A...
