French Desk

A full-service Singapore law firm

KGP Legal LLC is a full-service firm of Singapore advocates and solicitors, licensed by the Legal Services Regulatory Authority (licence LSRA/LLC/2017/00023). It advises on company formation and corporate administration, corporate and commercial law, contracts, employment and work passes, banking and finance, crypto and digital assets, private client matters and dispute resolution, so that a client from the French-speaking countries can have all of its Singapore work done in one place.

Litigation in the Singapore courts

As a Singapore law practice, KGP Legal LLC is authorised by law to conduct litigation and to represent clients before the Singapore courts. Foreign law practices in Singapore, including the local offices of French and other European firms, are generally not permitted to practise Singapore law or to represent clients in proceedings before the Singapore courts, apart from limited exceptions such as offshore cases before the Singapore International Commercial Court. A client of KGP Legal LLC therefore keeps the same team from the first letter to the judgment.

Your point of contact

Dr Alexander Ressos, Of Counsel at KGP Legal LLC, is admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Switzerland and in Germany and as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong. His Swiss admission and his work with clients from Geneva, Lausanne and the wider French-speaking world make him familiar with the civil law concepts that French, Belgian, Luxembourg and Swiss clients bring to a Singapore matter.

Dr Ressos coordinates the KGP team working on the matter and facilitates the client relationship throughout, so that clients always have one point of contact who knows the whole file. He can be reached directly at [email protected]. All communication with the French Desk can be in French, as Dr Ressos speaks French; the Singapore law work itself is carried out and filed in English by KGP Legal LLC. SingaporeIQ is also available in French at fr.singaporeiq.com.

Working with your advisers at home

Dr Ressos conveys Singapore law advice by KGP in terms that civil law boards of directors, avocats, notaires and experts-comptables recognise, and he coordinates the Singapore work with your advisers at home so that decisions on both sides are taken on the same facts, including questions under the double tax agreements that Singapore has concluded with France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Typical matters

• conduct of litigation in the Singapore courts;
• setting up a Singapore subsidiary, branch or regional holding company;
• acquisitions, joint ventures and shareholder agreements;
• distribution, agency, supply and service contracts;
• employment contracts and work passes for staff sent to Singapore;
• licensing of crypto and payment businesses;
• debt recovery and commercial disputes before the Singapore courts;
• enforcement of French, Belgian, Luxembourg and Swiss judgments and of arbitral awards in Singapore.

En bref

Le French Desk de KGP Legal LLC s’adresse aux entreprises, entrepreneurs et familles de France, de Belgique, du Luxembourg, de Monaco et de Suisse romande ayant un projet ou un litige à Singapour. Le conseil en droit singapourien et la représentation devant les juridictions de Singapour sont assurés par KGP Legal LLC, cabinet singapourien d’advocates and solicitors dûment agréé et habilité par la loi à plaider devant ces juridictions. Le Dr Alexander Ressos, avocat admis en Suisse et en Allemagne et solicitor en Angleterre et au pays de Galles ainsi qu’à Hong Kong, y est Of Counsel, coordonne l’équipe chargée de votre dossier et reste votre interlocuteur tout au long de la procédure. Toutes les communications peuvent se faire en français. SingaporeIQ est également disponible en français sur fr.singaporeiq.com.