From 6 May 2026, CALA 2025 introduced a mandatory two-tier approval process for selective share buybacks in Singapore. A guide for company secretaries, directors and shareholders.
From 6 May 2026, Singapore audit reports must name the individual engagement partner under CALA 2025. A practical guide for company secretaries, audit committees and boards.
From 6 May 2026, every audit report issued for a Singapore company must do something new: it must identify by name the individual public accountant who was primarily responsible for that audit engagement. This change, introduced by the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 (CALA 2025), is one of the most significant shifts in [...]
From 1 July 2026 — just weeks away — Singapore's statutory retirement age rises from 63 to 64. The re-employment age rises simultaneously from 68 to 69. These changes are mandatory and carry significant consequences for employers who fail to comply. Directors, HR managers, and company secretaries should be reviewing their employment documentation and HR [...]
Singapore company law provides several grounds on which the court may order a company to be wound up compulsorily. Among the less commonly invoked but legally significant grounds is the power to wind up a company whose formation was for an illegal purpose, or whose business has been carried on fraudulently. These grounds intersect with [...]
Singapore's food and beverage (F&B) industry is one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the country. Between the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), the Ministry of Health, the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the National Environment Agency (NEA), the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), and the Singapore Police Force (SPF), an F&B business operating in Singapore must [...]
When the Corporate and Accounting Laws (Amendment) Act 2025 (CALA 2025) commenced on 6 May 2026, it brought a raft of changes affecting Singapore company law. Among the most practically significant — and least widely discussed — is the new double-hurdle approval requirement for selective share buy-backs. For directors, company secretaries, and shareholders of Singapore [...]
Of all the grounds on which a Singapore court may wind up a company, the just and equitable ground under Section 254(1)(i) of the Companies Act 1967 is the most discretionary and the most fact-sensitive. Among the various circumstances that can give rise to a just and equitable winding up, the irretrievable breakdown of mutual [...]
On 9 May 2026, Singapore's business classification system underwent its biggest overhaul since 2020. The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) officially migrated all registered entities — companies, limited liability partnerships, sole proprietorships and more — from the Singapore Standard Industrial Classification 2020 (SSIC 2020) to the updated SSIC 2025 framework. The migration was automatic: [...]
Few situations are more frustrating for a business owner, creditor, or shareholder than discovering that a company has been struck off the ACRA register — only to find that the company has an unresolved legal claim to pursue, an ongoing court case to defend, or assets that cannot be recovered without the company first being [...]