The SAL-INSEAD Legal Leadership Programme is a three-day intensive management programme specifically designed and contextualised to address the needs of law firm partners, general counsel and legal service officers. Participants from the private sector should currently have P&L remit in their roles or will soon be assuming P&L responsibilities in their organisations.
This unique programme applies business school methodologies to address business challenges faced by legal professionals including strategic planning, improving organisational alignment, managing growth and change, and motivating people and teams.

Overview

This seminar will discuss the use of Singapore law as a governing law in cross-border lending transactions. We will cover some of the key implications that follow where a loan transaction is governed by Singapore law, including in relation to documentation, lending and collateral structures, enforcement and foreign recognition, and the effects of insolvency and the IRDA. We will also discuss some of the differences between English law and Singapore law, particularly in the context of insolvency, as well as the recent English decision in Prosafe and its implications for the choice of Singapore law cross-border financings.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been one of the hottest asset classes in the United States equity market, with record numbers launched in the first quarter of 2021. The boom in SPACs has attracted a tremendous amount of attention. Last year, SGX announced that SPACs can be listed on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST.

This webinar explores how SPACs and business combinations are structured in the United States, and a comparison between the SGX SPAC listing framework and the regulations applying to SPACs and market trends in the United States.

In this review of the decisions of the Singapore courts in the preceding year, author of the chapter on civil procedure, Mr Chia Voon Jiet, will provide some comments and analyses on 2021 cases dealing with (amongst other issues) striking out, limitation of actions and appeals.

In this webinar, the speaker will discuss the cases in 2021 emanating from the MUIS Appeal Board that span a diverse set of issues including the principles for the adduction of fresh evidence, division of matrimonial assets, the pronouncement of talak and the jurisdictional limits of the Muslim Courts. The session will also involve a presentation on significant recent developments in the Syariah Court for practitioners to take note of, as well as a panel discussion with a senior practitioner and member of the MUIS Appeal Board on the recent developments in Muslim law and on other related matters