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Overseas Investment Series: Singapore Investment Risks and Family Business Wealth Succession

Leadvisor LawLeadvisor Law is a leading PRC business law firm. We focus on serving private equity and venture capital investors, start-ups, multinational corporations, and listed companies, providing comprehensive, effective, and innovative legal solutions for domestic and cross-border investment, M&A, business transactions, and capital market operations. We help clients shape business strategies and make informed decisions, combining legal rules with insight into commercial fundamentals to integrate legal analysis, risk control, and business strategy. Our team has deep industry experience across pharmaceuticals and healthcare, automobile and clean energy, e-commerce and new retail, and education and training. We leverage industry resources and work closely with ecosystem participants to create value, helping clients prevent risks, resolve disputes, reduce losses, and generate outsized value in transactions and capital markets. Longstanding cooperation with other professional institutions, together with our developing professional institutions platform, enables us to deliver coordinated, cross-disciplinary, one-stop services. We offer holistic capabilities across antitrust, commercial litigation and arbitration, data protection and cybersecurity, intellectual property and technology licensing, and related areas.

WMH Law CorporationWMH Law Corporation is a medium-sized boutique full-service law firm based in Singapore, strategically located in Raffles Place. The firm specialises in dispute resolution and corporate law and is equipped with strong regional capabilities via the WMH Regency network in Greater China, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The firm has been routinely recognised by Thomson Reuters’ Asian Legal Business (ALB). It was selected as a finalist for the two most coveted categories in the ALB South East Asia Law Awards for a number of years, including most recently in 2025: Singapore Law Firm of the Year and Singapore Litigation Law Firm of the Year. Since its commencement, the firm has also been finalists annually in other regional categories reflecting the quality of its services and cross-border capabilities: Dispute Resolution Boutique Law Firm of the Year; Rising Law Firm of the Year; Corporate Citizenship Law Firm of the Year; Matrimonial and Family Law Firm of the Year; Medical and Healthcare Law Firm of the Year; Transactional Boutique Law Firm of the Year; and Young Lawyer of the Year. In 2019, WMH Law was named one of eight law firms to watch in Singapore. WMH Law was established by a group of lawyers formerly from a Singapore Big Four law firm to provide premium legal services at accessible rates. Notably, all three founding partners were selected as finalists for regional legal awards. The firm serves individuals and corporations, including a foreign listed company with an annual turnover of approximately USD 1 billion, as well as local companies listed on the SGX. It is experienced in complex, high-quantum international arbitration, and its lawyers’ work has been featured in major publications including The Straits Times, Channel News Asia, The Business Times, Law Gazette, and the Chinese papers. WMH Law is one of the few firms in Singapore with a specialised Defamation and Reputation Protection practice and, with leadership also handling construction disputes, is uniquely positioned to advise construction companies in defamation claims. The firm adopts cutting-edge legal technology and is recognised as a “SmartLaw” Singapore Law Practice by the Law Society of Singapore. It is committed to hiring top talent and offers market-leading remuneration to ensure clients are in capable hands. Through its Community Assist Outreach (CARe) initiative, the firm offers reduced rates to lower-income individuals for both contentious and non-contentious matters, subject to documentary verification.

Categories

01Singapore

02Business Services

03Legal Services

04Wealth Succession

05Cross-Border Investment Opportunities

06Global Legal Entity Management

07Compliance Advisory

08Policy Risk Alert

09International Market Strategy

Dec 4, 2024

Overseas Investment Series: Singapore Investment Risks and Family Business Wealth Succession

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Amid the wave of globalization in business, Singapore has leveraged its unique business environment and status as a financial hub to offer unprecedented opportunities for Chinese entrepreneurs and investors. However, alongside these opportunities come a range of complex risks and challenges, with business and family disputes increasingly becoming focal points for investors. Renowned for its stable political environment, robust legal system, and open business climate, Singapore has attracted numerous family businesses and high-net-worth individuals seeking to invest or establish family offices. Yet, due to a lack of proactive planning or improper asset management, family businesses often face challenges such as asset division, management disputes, and even potential operational disruptions during the succession process. To assist family businesses, high-net-worth individuals, and investors in effectively addressing these challenges, Linklaters Law Firm, in collaboration with its Singapore member firm, WMH Law Corporation, is hosting a special online seminar on overseas investment titled **"Singapore Investment Risks and Entrepreneurial Family Wealth Succession"** on **November 8, 2024, at 2:00 PM**. We have invited seasoned legal experts, **Mark Lee** and **Sarah Yeo**, from WMH Law Corporation, a member of Linklaters Global, to join us online to discuss common corporate and family dispute cases in Singapore, along with strategies for dispute resolution. The seminar will explore how to devise preemptive plans to help you and your business respond swiftly and effectively to potential conflicts. Through these invaluable insights and strategies, you will be better equipped to mitigate risks and take appropriate measures when necessary, safeguarding your commercial interests and legal rights.