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20 May 2025
Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions Directors, Benjamin Gaw and Joel Tan, co-authored the Singapore Law and Practice chapter in the Chambers Global Practice Guide: Corporate M&A 2025.
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14 May 2025
Intellectual Property (IP) plays an important role in the success of all types of companies, including startups. Unfortunately, many startups underestimate the importance of IP, viewing it as too expensive and they cannot afford or a problem to addre...
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14 May 2025
It is common for companies to invest (both time and money) in research and development and eventually obtaining a patent. A patent grants the owner (Applicant or Proprietor) of the invention, the right to prevent others from using the invention witho...
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14 May 2025
Patent linkage systems play a key role in protecting pharmaceutical patents, particularly for innovator drugs facing competition from generics or biosimilars. These systems link the approval of generics to the patent status of the original product, p...
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08 May 2025
WVH v WVG [2025] SGHCF 22 concerned the appointment of deputies for a man who lacked mental capacity. The Court held that it was both more appropriate and in the man’s best interests for his children, rather than his partner, to be appointed as deput...
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07 May 2025
The chapter titled, “Emerging Technologies, the Law and Disruption” considers some of the most important technologies today and tomorrow and how they could interact with the law, such as user content, artificial intelligence, digital signatures and v...
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07 May 2025
Being a director is a serious responsibility. Breach of the director’s duty to use reasonable diligence is a criminal offence, and the High Court in PP v Zheng Jia [2025] SGHC 76 has set out a revised sentencing framework where imprisonment is the st...
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30 April 2025
In Sapura Fabrication Sdn Bhd and others v GAS and another appeal [2025] SGCA 13, the Court of Appeal held that the Singapore Courts have no mandatory obligation to grant a carve-out to moratoriums in restructuring proceedings to allow a creditor t...
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22 April 2025
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Employment and Labour laws and regulations applicable in Singapore, addressing topics such as termination procedures, worker protections, compensation, common challenges faced by employers, and upcomi...
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22 April 2025
In CIX v DGN [2025] SGCA 10 (“CIX”), the Court of Appeal (“CA”) affirmed that the extended doctrine of res judicata (“Doctrine”) would apply to an action before the Court, if the issue in that action could, and ought to, have been raised in an earlie...
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