Practices
Focused expertise. Commercial perspective.
We advise on intellectual property, financing and security, corporate, and real estate matters. Across each practice, we combine detailed legal knowledge with a clear understanding of our clients' commercial objectives.
Intellectual Property
For the businesses whose ideas, brands and inventions are among their most valuable assets, from first clearance through to enforcement.
TALK TO THE TEAMWe handle the full range of intellectual property work, contentious and non-contentious, from first clearance search to contested proceedings.
Registration is the easy part. The value is in deciding what to protect, where to protect it, and what to do when someone gets close to the line — which is where a practice that files, prosecutes and litigates in the same room earns its keep. We work regularly before the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), and coordinate filings through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the Madrid Protocol.
We also maintain long-standing relationships with specialist IP counsel, patent agents and trade mark agents worldwide, so a portfolio that outgrows Singapore doesn't need to outgrow us.
- Trade mark clearance, filing and prosecution
- Oppositions, revocations and invalidations
- Patent drafting, filing and prosecution
- Copyright, designs and confidential information
- Licensing, assignment and franchising
- Enforcement, infringement and passing off
- Portfolio strategy and freedom-to-operate
- IP due diligence in transactions
Financing & Security
A financing practice with experience on both sides of the table, leveraging insights from each to deliver superior results.
TALK TO THE TEAMWe act for banks, financial institutions, corporate lenders, borrowers, fund managers, corporate trustees, private credit funds and high net worth individuals.
We advise lenders and borrowers on the full life cycle of secured and unsecured lending — from term sheet to completion and perfection across different financing structures — including working capital loans, acquisition finance, project finance and real estate finance.
- Structuring, drafting and negotiating facility and debt instruments, including letters of offer, facility agreements, loan notes, note instruments and subscription agreements
- Drafting and perfecting security packages, guarantees, third-party security, confirmations and releases, subordination and intercreditor terms
- Amendment and restatement, waiver and consent documentation
- Issue of formal legal opinions
- Co-ordinating foreign counsel in multi-jurisdictional transactions
- Refinancing
Corporate
Pragmatic legal frameworks and transactional advice that secure investments and scale businesses.
TALK TO THE TEAMWe act for founder-stage companies, funds, small and medium enterprises through to some of the region's larger corporations, both private and listed.
We spend real time understanding a client's business before advising on it. That is partly a service standard and partly self-interest: the advice is better when you know the risks and objectives which actually matter.
The team also carries the unglamorous but important work that keeps a company clean — resolutions, registers, filings, governance — because the deal is far easier when the house is already in order.
Corporate & Corporate Finance
- Share and asset acquisitions and disposals
- Capital reductions and share buybacks
- Legal and transactional due diligence and disclosure exercises
- Amalgamations and mergers
- Restructuring and corporate reorganisation
- Employee equity and incentive plans and arrangements
- Joint ventures, founder and shareholder arrangements
- Corporate governance and regulatory compliance advisory
Investments
- Seed, venture and growth and pre-IPO fundraisings
- Convertible instruments
- Private equity, venture capital and strategic minority investments
Commercial
- Commercial agreements and distribution, including terms and conditions of sale, purchase and supply
- Employment and confidentiality agreements
- Software and technology licensing
- Franchising and licensing structures
Corporate Secretarial & Compliance
- Incorporation and post-incorporation filings
- Company secretarial support
- Maintain Registers and compliance calendars
- Draft resolutions
Real Estate
Property work is deadline work. Our team moves at the speed of your property settlement to ensure a seamless closing.
TALK TO THE TEAMWe support clients navigating the acquisition, leasing, financing, management and disposal of real property throughout the entire property lifecycle from first offer to completion.
- Sale, purchase and conveyancing of properties and property-owning companies
- Commercial and retail leasing
- Mortgages and property finance
Not sure which team you need?
Describe the problem. We'll route it.
Most matters worth doing sit across more than one practice anyway. Tell us what's happening and we'll put the right people on the call.