In recent years, the phenomenal rise of tech companies, specifically in Asia, has seen as many as 35 startups achieving unicorn status in Southeast Asia alone. Some of these companies call Singapore home. But as they began making waves in the market for their plans to go public, their decisions...

Twelve-year old Benyamin Ahmed recently launched two NFTs and made close to half a million dollars. He is not the only one to benefit from NFTs. The surging popularity of NFTs means that a greater understanding of NFTs would be required and regulators would need to deal with this new asset class...

In every capital raising exercise, there will be various obligations and requirements imposed by the stock exchanges, securities laws and investors. These obligations and requirements are then represented by a disclosure document (commonly known as a prospectus or offering circular). The...

Blockchain technology and its various applications have been gaining momentum rapidly in recent years. With the ability to disrupt whole industries and multi-national corporations, regulators have become aware of its potential as much as being wary of its inherent risks. This article seeks to...

For some years now, the motor trading industry has come up as Number One or Two on the complaints list of the Consumer Association of Singapore (Case). The consumer watchdog has recently said that from December 2018 to September this year, it had received 26 complaints involving over S$820,000...

Historically, an aggrieved minority shareholder, “X”, is faced with two primary conundrum, (a) X does not have standing to sue an errant director or require the board to account as a result of the rule in Foss v Harbottle (1843) 2 Hare 461 (“Foss v Harbottle”); and (b) companies operate...