German and Swiss 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 German-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 German and Swiss 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 who instructs a foreign firm in Singapore therefore usually has to bring in a local firm once a dispute reaches court, whereas a client of KGP Legal LLC keeps the same team from the first letter to the judgment.

Singapore law advice in German

Dr Alexander Ressos, Of Counsel at KGP Legal LLC, is a German citizen and a native German speaker. He is admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany and in Switzerland and as a solicitor in England and Wales and in Hong Kong.

Clients of the German and Swiss Desk discuss their matter, receive explanations of advice and court documents and prepare for meetings and hearings in German, while the Singapore law work is carried out and filed in English by KGP Legal LLC. 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].

For German-speaking clients, this combination of Singapore law advice and court representation from a licensed Singapore firm with a German-speaking Of Counsel qualified in both home jurisdictions is rarely available in Singapore.

Working with your advisers at home

Because Dr Ressos is qualified in German and Swiss law, he can convey Singapore law advice by KGP in the terms that German and Swiss boards of directors, Rechtsanwälte, Steuerberater, Wirtschaftsprüfer and in-house lawyers use, and he coordinates the Singapore work with your advisers at home so that decisions on both sides are taken on the same facts.

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 German and Swiss judgments and of arbitral awards in Singapore.

Auf Deutsch

Der German and Swiss Desk bei KGP Legal LLC richtet sich an Unternehmen, Unternehmer und Familien aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Österreich und Liechtenstein mit Vorhaben oder Streitigkeiten in Singapur. Die Beratung zum singapurischen Recht und die Vertretung vor den Gerichten Singapurs erfolgen durch KGP Legal LLC, eine in Singapur zugelassene Kanzlei, die das gesamte Spektrum an Rechtsdienstleistungen anbietet. Dr. Alexander Ressos, deutscher Staatsangehöriger, Rechtsanwalt in Deutschland und der Schweiz sowie Solicitor in England und Wales und in Hongkong, ist dort Of Counsel, koordiniert das mit Ihrer Angelegenheit befasste Team und betreut Sie als Ihr durchgehender Ansprechpartner und Client Coordinator auf Deutsch. Anders als die Singapurer Büros ausländischer Kanzleien, die nach dem Legal Profession Act 1966 (insbesondere Section 33) grundsätzlich weder zum singapurischen Recht beraten noch vor singapurischen Gerichten auftreten dürfen, ist KGP Legal LLC eine singapurische Kanzlei, die zu beidem gesetzlich befugt ist.