Advisers working through a marked-up legal file
Our Approach

How a file is run from this office

We read the papers first, write the scope second, and only then draft or lodge. You always have a named adviser and a date for the next step.

Facts before advice

Bring the contract, the title, the will you already have, or the letter you received. We ask who signed what, and which date cannot slip. Advice that ignores those facts is unused paper.

Options with costs

Where the law allows more than one path — settle or write a letter, exercise or walk away from an OTP, a short will or a longer one — we say so, with the time and fee each path needs. You choose. We do not pretend there is only one “correct” commercial answer.

Adviser explaining a file to clients in a meeting room
Four Stages

Every instruction follows the same order

  1. Consultation

    We read what you brought, say whether we can act, and list the statute or registry steps that apply in Singapore.

  2. Engagement

    You receive tasks, dates, and fees in writing. Work starts only after you accept that note.

  3. Execution

    Drafts, mark-ups, and filings go out on the dates we agreed. You are copied on what the other side or the registry sent.

  4. Completion

    You get the originals or lodgement proof and a short list of any later date — a CPF refund, an annual return, or a review of the will.

Client and adviser shaking hands after agreeing the next steps on a file

Written notes you can keep

Verbal discussion is for questions. Decisions go in a letter or an email you can file: what we will lodge, what you must sign, and what the other party still owes.

Other advisers

With your say-so we speak to your accountant, banker, or company secretary so the resolution, the tax treatment, and the ACRA form match.

Deadlines

OTP exercise dates, stamp duty windows, and regulator reply dates are treated as hard. If we cannot meet one, we say so before you instruct — not the afternoon it falls due.

Office Rules

What we will and will not do

We decline some files

If the work is outside Singapore law, or needs a court advocate we are not, we say so and do not take the fee.

The file stays closed to others

Staff on your matter see the papers. We do not discuss clients in the lift or on a shared call.

You leave knowing the next date

Every meeting ends with who does what by when. If that is unclear, the meeting is not finished.

Start with a consultation

Write a short account of the papers you have. We reply within one business day.

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