Corporate

Overview

We are well aware that our clients expect that they need a team with flexibility, understanding and determination to work with them in today’s challenging commercial and regulatory field for corporate transactions. Our team works on the full range of corporate transactions in a global scale and we provide constructive and responsive advice, innovative solutions and strategic planning. Our practical approach allows our client to drive their businesses in an effective and efficient way. Our corporate professionalism is grounded in sector understanding and practice. We deliver cutting-edge, commercially focused and practical advice so our clients are able to reach their business goals and effectively navigate through their business environment.

We advise and act for entrepreneurs, public and private companies, small and medium enterprises, on all aspects of corporate law, including corporate advice and company secretarial, corporate governance and services, joint ventures, market entry, mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

We regularly help our clients with full legal and commercial supports and guidance for their business requirements. We have developed an extensive network around the globe and cooperating closely with them to provide our international corporate clients and small and medium enterprises unrivalled commercial and legal services. 

Corporate Advice & Company Secretarial

We provide corporate advice and corporate secretarial assistances to domestic and multi-national corporations across all sectors we focus on, including:

  • Acting as company secretary and registered office
  • Arranging and attending company meetings, search services 
  • Compliance with companies’ statutory duties 
  • Company incorporations
  • Day-to-day corporate information
  • Dealing with notary services
  • Responsibilities and duties of directors


Corporate Governance & Services

In corporate governance issues, we act for board committees, company directors, corporate debtors, corporate purchasers, insolvency practitioners, institutional and private equity investors, major companies, underwriters, and others.

  • Business and strategy planning, structuring and advising 
  • Constitutional services 
  • Global networking
  • Partnerships
  • Public take-over bids 
  • Regulatory compliance 
  • Reorganisations, refinancing and demergers
  • Shareholder agreements/Shareholder disputes
  • Solving corporate disputes


Joint Ventures

We advise our clients on the core issues in joint venture attempts across all sectors we focus on, including:

  • Co-operative joint ventures (CJV)
  • Due diligence – scrutinising the credentials of the other party
  • Equity joint ventures (EJV)
  • Financial arrangements 
  • Foreign investors’ interests in buying a local company
  • Local firm acquiring an interest in an existing foreign firm
  • Obtaining government approvals 
  • Preparation and formulating joint ventures 
  • Planning and drafting objectives, structures and projected forms of joint ventures
  • Purchase rights and counter-bid 
  • Transferability of shares
  • Valuation of intellectual rights


Mergers & Acquisitions

We advise a broad range of clients, both public and private corporates and private individuals on all aspects of merger and acquisition matters across all our sectors both domestic and cross-border.

  • Acqui-hiring
  • Acquisition finance
  • Advising on strategic acquisitions and accessing new markets 
  • Brand considerations 
  • Business valuation including asset valuation and future maintainable earnings valuation
  • Commercial and legal structuring 
  • Horizontal, conglomerate and vertical M&As
  • Post-transaction issues e.g. reorganisations and business planning
  • Public and private M&As
  • Taxation in M&As