What are vesting agreements? Most startups are founded by founders who are colleagues or school mates. When selecting a co-founder, you are essentially entering into a long term business arrangement that may last for 7 to 10 years or more. One way to see if you work well with your co-founder will be to work […]
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翻转结构: 如何为印度、境内启动公司的发起人在新加坡设立境外的控股公司 Singapore Flip Structure: Many startup founders decide to raise offshore funding when expanding in large markets like China or India and it is at this stage, founders realise that they have local PRC/India legal obligations that they need to comply with. In fact, not many people know that Flipkart the largest ecommerce player
Startup Founder: Every year we see eye-popping merger and acquisition transactions and in this period of tech startups. For example In December 2020, Salesforce the Global MNC SAAS company acquired Slack for 27.7 billion and Chipmaker Nvidia in Sept 2020 acquired UK Chipmarker Arm for $40 billion. Any potential sale transaction poses many legal issues
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Singapore Startups need to understand term sheets when negotiating each new funding round. This article will set out a few key terms that a startup founder needs to know when reading term sheets from VCs. #1: Board Representation for a Singapore Startup When a startup negotiates a term sheet, one of the most important thing
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新加坡是一个世界金融中心而有许多国际投资者选择来新加坡设立家庭办公室和在家庭办公室结构上面会有一个新加坡资产保护信托来保护资产。新加坡资产保护信托近几年来变了很受欢迎而许多国际投资者开始在新加坡设立家族信托。 #1: What is a trust? 新加坡资产保护信托的简单慨念 新加坡的法律制度是国际化而新加坡的法庭依法审案。新加坡是一个政治稳定的国家而许多国际投资公司来新加坡设立投资管理部门来管理他们国际投资资产。 在一个信托，委托人会转知产进入信托而信托人会帮受益人持有资产。 #2: A Trust is not a contractual arrangement unlike in China but is governed by a separate line of law in Singapore (equity) | 新加坡资产保护信托来之英国法律系统而跟中国的合同法不一样 新加坡的信托法律来之英国的法律系统而跟中国的合同法不一样。就应为是来之英国的法律系统所以信托法律要看信托官司的案例来了解。 #3: Trustee has strict obligations to protect the assets 新加坡信托法律对于资产保护是很在乎的 新加坡法律对于信托人的法律责任很看得重而新加坡法律对于信托人对于保护资产的法律责任看的很重所以在新加坡设立信托相当安全。 #4: Corporate Trustees in Singapore have a Trust
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SG Startup Business: The economics of negotiating a deal with venture capital investors is always different when negotiating with angel investors. At the venture capital funding stage, the VC investors would want to see traction with users and a minimum viable product. Some VCs will tag investment into several stages depending on whether the start
SG Startup Company: Seed investing as a concept largely originated from Silicon Valley and unlike most traditional business ventures where the shareholding is dependant on bargaining and negotiation and the amount of money invested into a venture, the seed investor in that funding round will usually get about between 15% to 20% of the shares
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新加坡近几年来有许多外国的商人来新加坡开公司而这群商人会申请新加坡的Employment Pass (就业准证)。这个文章会简单叙述新加坡的(就业准证) 制度。 #1: What is an employment pass? 新加坡的(就业准证)的简单的介绍 新加坡有几个级的出入凭证而 就业准证就是让要在新加坡开公司或就业的人士申请。要到新加坡的公司的高官人士通常会向新加坡人力部申请就业准证。 The employment pass is usually used by business owners and senior hires of companies. This is an article providing a quick summary of the requirements of the employment pass which is usually used for business owners and senior hires. #2: What is
Singapore Startup Business: At an early stage, you may have a product idea or a minimum viable product but are trying very hard to raise minimal funds to do some marketing. At the early stage of growth, most startups would want to look for angel funding and enter into term sheet negotiations with potential investors.
