by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 18, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Whenever a Singapore company’s directors change — whether a new director is appointed, a director resigns, dies, or has their particulars updated — Section 173 of the Companies Act 1967 requires the company to notify ACRA within strict timelines. Failure to...
by Willie Tan | Jun 18, 2026 | Running Your Company
Introduction Many companies in Singapore discover historical gaps in their compliance — missing annual returns, incomplete statutory registers, late tax filings or unrecorded director resolutions. Knowing how to rectify past non‑compliance and clean up your company...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
A shareholders’ agreement is a private contract between the shareholders of a Singapore company. It governs matters that the company constitution typically does not — reserved matters, board composition, anti-dilution protection, drag-along and tag-along rights,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
One of the most common ways a minority shareholder in a Singapore private company gets pushed out is through dilution — a new share issue that the majority engineers in a way that mathematically shrinks the minority’s proportional stake without offering them a...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Singapore directors carry personal legal exposure that few appreciate until something goes wrong. A claim under section 216 oppression, a regulatory enforcement action, an aggrieved minority shareholder, a creditor pursuing insolvent trading, an IRAS investigation —...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Every Singapore company is required by law to keep a set of statutory registers. They are not optional, and they are not just paperwork — they are the legal record of who owns the company, who controls it, who runs it, and whose interests touch the share capital....
