PRACTICE AREAS

Corporate & Commercial

Mergers and Acquisitions

We have a large team of experienced and committed lawyers who have been involved in the most challenging, complex and high-profile mergers and acquisition transactions.

Our experienced corporate lawyers advise on a broad range of domestic and cross border investment transactions including joint ventures, mergers, divestments and acquisitions of businesses and assets, amalgamations, private equity investments, leverage buyouts, divestments, hive offs and spin offs, privatizations, schemes of reconstruction, capital restructuring and corporate reorganizations.

We have a wealth of experience to provide creative solutions to the regulatory and tax law problems inherent in today’s corporate transactions. Our law corporation delivers resourceful deal structures, planning, designing and implementing strategies for both acquirers and potential acquisition targets in domestic and cross-border transactions.

Our focus is to provide timely, practical and high quality advice to our clients with the aim of assisting them in achieving their commercial objectives in the most cost effective and efficient manner.

Our expertise extends to:

  • Advising on company group and share capital structures to meet clients’ objectives
  • Transaction structures and financing issues
  • Stamp duties and tax implications of transactions
  • Drafting transactional documents
  • Assisting in due diligence
  • Corporate governance issues
  • Ongoing regulatory compliance
  • Regulatory matters concerning the establishment of special purpose vehicles in Singapore
     

Takeovers and Reverse Takeovers

Where acquisitions involve listed companies, we also advise on takeovers and reverse-takeovers including preparation of the documents thereof.

Our expertise extends to:

  • Advising on The Singapore Code on Take-overs and Mergers and regulatory compliances thereof
  • Transaction structures and financing issues
  • Drafting transactional documents
  • Assisting in due diligence
  • corporate governance issues
     

Share Options

We advise companies on the law, mechanics and legal requirements of various share allocation and share option schemes including the design and implementation of dedicated employee share option schemes.