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SIAC Annual Report 2025: Key Statistics, Trends, and Takeaways for International Arbitration Practitioners

The Singapore COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act 2020 (the "COVID-19 Act") provides, amongst other reliefs, temporary relief to businesses unable to perform certain contractual...

Passed by the Singapore Parliament on 10 March 2017, the Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 significantly amended the Companies Act (Cap 50) (the "Act") to:

On 30 January 2020, the World Health Organisation made a declaration that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was a public health emergency of international concern.

If your payment terms are to pay "upon order confirmation" and "upon materials delivered to site", you may think this is very clear.

One great concern for litigants, and something that is often cited as an important issue for individuals and companies seeking to defend legal proceedings, is the legal costs involved.

Manipulating the stock market can be done in a variety of manners, and the law has sought to identify and curb stock market manipulation by prohibiting certain actions

Singapore has launched the Variable Capital Company framework with effect from 15 January 2020 in a bid to attract more investment funds and foreign private capital to Singapore

Where some or all claims at issue clearly lack merit, however, there is a mechanism that allows parties to bring about a swift resolution to such claims (whether in whole or in part) without going through the full arbitral process, sparing them the time, cost, and resources that a complete evidentiary hearing (i.e., the hearing at which evidence is presented and tested through cross-examination) would otherwise demand

Every director has a duty to act in the best interests of his or her company. But how are the best interests of a company, an inanimate legal person, to be understood? Further, which stakeholder's interests.

On 17 May 2021, the Monetary Authority of Singapore ("MAS") issued a consultation paper inviting public comments on proposals to mandate reference checks not only to representatives...

In this article, we provide a high-level overview of recent developments in the venture capital industry and the action that can be taken by investors and startups to mitigate the impact of the challenges...

Because the FA(CHR)Regs only apply to complaints received by FA firms from retail clients, clients who are accredited investors ("AIs") would not benefit from the regime of the FA(CHR)Regs.

In Anupam Mittal v Westbridge Ventures II Investment Holdings [2023] SGCA 1, the Singapore Court of Appeal ("SGCA") held that the law governing the arbitration agreement governs arbitrability...

The CA held that the rejection of the JEI Proposal should have been disclosed and it was difficult to believe that the Scheme Companies were unaware of the same.

Commercial contracts commonly include clauses providing for liquidated damages, accelerated repayment or late payment interest in the event one party breaches the contract.

Next generation business owners, high net worth individuals (HNWI) who are founders of fast growth companies or Principals starting single family offices and looking to relocate