Business Start-Up Services

This is a specialized one-stop service designed to meet the needs of both local and foreign investors/entrepreneurs who want to do business in Singapore. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, we help our clients set up business quickly. Our range of services include the following:

a. Singapore Company Incorporation

Our company incorporation services include the following:

• prepare the Memordandum and Articles of Association
• provide nominee directors, shareholders and secretaries, if required.
• prepare and lodge all prescribed forms and requisite documents with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (“ACRA”)
• obtain Certificate of Incorporation, common seal and rubber stamp
• Set up statutory registers
• prepare resolutions for the first Board of Directors' meeting.

b. Offshore Incorporation

We can assist in the setting up of companies in Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, China, Hong Kong, Lubuan, Mauritius, Samoa and the United States.

c. Registered Office

A company must have a registered office in Singapore from the date of incorporation. Our office is available for use as the registered office.

d. Immigration Requirements

We help companies to have the right people with the right skills at the right place by assisting with the following:

• Application for Employment Pass
• Application for Entrepreneur Pass
• Application for Personalised Employment Pass
• Application for Dependent Pass: spouse and children
• Social Visit Pass extension
• Transfer of employment / dependant pass to new passport
• Transfer of employer
• Application for Permanent Resident status

e. Government Licence Applications

Before a business firm or company starts operation, it may have to get licences and approvals from relevant government agencies, especially for certain business activities. Such governmental controls exist to safeguard public interests in Singapore. In this regard, we assist companies to identify and obtain the relevant licences required. Some of the licences and approvals that we assist our clients with are:

• CESS registration
• CPF Employer registration
• Customs registration
• Bonded Warehouse licence application
• Home Office Scheme
• Application for trader's code

f. Advisory Services

We assist foreign investors understand the business, tax and regulatory environment in Singapore by preparing customized reports on the relevant issues under consideration.

We also assist investors/entrepreneurs to decide on the type of business entity (e.g. company, partnership, sole-proprietorship) that they are going to start.

Other areas that we routinely assist our clients with are

• Drafting business plan for purposes of obtaining loans or venture capital
• Providing information on the various financial assistance schemes administered by governmental bodies
• Providing information on applicable tax incentives
• Cross-border tax planning

g. Other services

• Registering a branch of a foreign company in Singapore
• Setting up of representative office in Singapore
• Registration for Goods and Services Tax (“GST”)