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Corporate secretarial

AGMs, written resolutions, directors and company secretaries — the statutory housekeeping every private company has to keep in order.

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Corporate secretarial
How money leaves your company: salary, fees, dividends and loans
Company money reaches a founder through a route with a defined legal character. Understand what salary, director's fees, dividends and director's loans each pay for, and how each is approved, taxed and recorded.
8 Sep 2026 · 11 min read
Corporate secretarial
Higher director fines — and what else changed on 6 May 2026
Four changes now affect some ordinary private companies, while separate registered-office relief has not commenced. Here is what owners and directors should check.
26 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Corporate secretarial
Dispensing with an AGM: what does it really save?
Written resolutions are available whether or not you dispense. What dispensation removes is the annual meeting itself — the reporting and resolution work remains.
3 Aug 2026 · 10 min read
Corporate secretarial
Free VC documents exist — here's what closing the round triggers
Singapore publishes model venture financing agreements at no cost. They cover the deal; they do not cover the ACRA, tax and reporting consequences that follow from allotment, conversion and completion.
3 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Corporate secretarial
The company's money is not your money: a director's rules
A separate bank account, no personal withdrawals, no casual loans to yourself — the habits that keep a founder-director on the right side of fiduciary duty.
2 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Corporate secretarial
When a private company can skip its AGM
Three different mechanisms get confused: the s175A exemption, a resolution dispensing with AGMs, and written resolutions. Which one applies to you.
28 Jun 2026 · 2 min read