Corporate Restructuring
Companies periodically assess and deliberate ways to improve their financial results, and one way of achieving this may be through a successful corporate restructuring exercise, undertaken pursuant to the applicable laws.
A corporate restructuring exercise may involve the acquisition, disposal, consolidation or amalgamation of assets or shares. Other reasons that may compel a company to restructure may be to prepare the company for a sale, merger or management buyout. In almost all cases, legal and financial reasons will dictate the approach and outcome.
By leveraging on our corporate and insolvency law practices within the firm, we aim to help clients achieve their restructuring objectives by offering strategic advance planning, assessing the possible business outcomes and legal restrictions, and managing the interests of the stakeholders involved, namely the shareholders, creditors, customers, and employees.
Our work includes:
- Restructuring and hiving-off of businesses for strategic reasons
- Advising clients on employment-related issue
- Redomiciliation of overseas companies to Singapore
- Restructuring companies ahead of IPO
- Use of schemes of arrangement and other court processes
- Debt restructurings
- Capital reductions to allow return of value to shareholders or to create distributable reserves
- Acting for companies in financial difficulties and advising their directors
- Privatisations of listed companies
The team works closely with other advisers (and, where relevant, our colleagues who handle court processes) to develop innovative ideas and practical solutions for our clients.
Accolades
Rankings Received From Professional and Commercial Publications
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The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2021 : Recommended for Corporate and M&A
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Asialaw Profiles, 2021 : Notable for Corporate and M&A
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IFLR1000 Thirtieth Edition : Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Ranked
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Best Lawyers Thirteenth Edition : Two Partners are ranked for Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and one Partner is ranked for Corporate Law
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Practice Highlights
Client Testimonials
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Work Highlights
- CNPLaw LLP advises Pison Investments Pte. Ltd. on its invitation to senior unsecured creditors of the Hyflux group to offer their debt to Pison in a reverse Dutch auction
- CNPLaw LLP advised on the restructuring of AirGSM Pte Ltd
- CNPLaw advised a multi-national company on transferring employees within the group to create a regional sales hub in Singapore
- CNPLaw advised a large French consortium on its internal amalgamation and restructuring exercise
- CNPLaw advised a multi-national company on separating the ownership structures of its various businesses in Singapore in preparation for a global sale of one of its businesses
- CNPLaw advised the target company listed on SGX-ST on a proposed takeover by way of a scheme of arrangement
- CNPLaw advised Bilcare Singapore Pte. Limited on its restructuring of US$45.5m of convertible bonds and US$44.5m bonds with warrants to subscribe for shares of Bilcare Limited
- CNPLaw advised a leading hedge fund manager on a proposed debt restructuring of a large cross-border business by means of a Singapore scheme of arrangement
- CNPLaw advised GuardTime on restructuring its group under a Singapore holding company and raising equity of US$8 million to help fund its global infrastructure
- CNPLaw advised the controlling shareholder of Want Want Holdings Ltd. on the US$850 million financing of the delisting offer for the company’s shares
CNPupdates – publications written by our Corporate Restructuring Lawyers
- CNPLaw Business Guide Series: Singapore government grants and incentives
- Corporate Insolvency, Restructuring, and Recovery in the COVID-19 world – Part 2
- Wrongful trading under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018
- Corporate Insolvency, Restructuring, and Recovery in the COVID-19 world – Part 1
- Fortitude Budget to help businesses and individuals adapt and build resilience amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- Interlaw tax webinar – tax policy measures overview
- Structuring your business for survival – developing a sound strategy for post-pandemic growth
- A new economic normal – assessing the immediate and longer-term prospects for Asian economies post COVID-19 with Manu Bhaskaran of Centennial Advisors
- How to use the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act to protect you and your business from an economic downturn
- Solidarity Budget: COVID-19 supplementary relief programmes
- Resilience Budget: COVID-19 supplementary relief programmes
- Unity Budget: COVID-19 relief programmes
- A quick reference guide for companies in financial distress
- Enhancing the existing insolvency legal framework – Ipso facto clauses
- CNPLaw’s partner, Mr Bill Jamieson featured in IFR Asia article on “Singapore changes restructuring law”
- CNPLaw’s partner, Mr Subramanian Pillai featured in article on “MAS seeks further boost to enforcement power with amendments to Securities and Futures Act”
- Retention of title clauses – Decision by the English Court of Appeal in PST Energy 7 Shipping LLC v OW Bunker Malta Ltd
- Corporate Insolvency – Proposed Insolvency Act