Corporate & Commercial

Biographical Info

Avodah Advocates is a boutique corporate and commercial law practice with its clientele in mind. Our value add comes in the form of our lawyers; all of whom have at least 15 to 20 years of practice-experience behind them. Our clients have been able to appreciate the personable advice and guidance that our lawyers have brought to the negotiation table; particularly in equity investment projects where investors have come in the form of venture capitalists.

Our clients range from small businesses, SMEs, start-ups, social enterprises, corporations, VWOs, fintech – platforms, small fund management companies and recently, family offices.

We provide legal solutions for our clients’ businesses because we know business. Our clients receive personable services and are always assured they are in good hands.

We cater to all aspects of our clients’ business and operations; from structuring to supply of services, to transactions, to acquisitions, to regulatory compliance and collaborations and asset-protection.

Company legal services:

• company secretarial services, nominee directorships and incorporation;
• shares and shareholder issues;
• board of directors; and
• company regulatory and compliance matters under the Companies Act.

Corporate legal services:

• structuring your divestments and investments;
• structuring your acquisitions of shares and assets;
• structuring your venture equity or venture loan exercises;
• reviewing financial documentation;
• conducting due diligence; and
• rendering advice on risk management issues.

Commercial legal services:

• sale of goods and supply of services contracts;
• vendor, supply and procurement contracts;
• marketing, branding and distribution agreements;
• services and service level agreements;
• I.T. and software development agreements, e-commerce contracts;
• tenancy;
• franchises and licenses;
• joint ventures and other collaboration and business agreements; and
• legal framework of fintech (crypto and NFT) and e-commerce platforms.

Regulatory:

• issue of Legal Opinion;
• compliance advice and services;
• advice on regulatory guidelines for instance MAS guidelines; and
• application for licences.

We know our clients, like you, budget costs for your legal matters and we work on the Pareto Principle. We always seek to give you back 80% of the results and value for 20% of the costs.

With Avodah Advocates, you can always be assured of a fair fee in return for quality services and advice as we operate costs-effectively with our team of contract legal counsels, locum lawyers and paralegals.

Avodah Advocates operate on a fair-fee assurance.

We are, after all, Business Advocates who advocate your business.

OUR LAWYER:

Elaine Phang Director

Elaine Phang holds a LL.B (Hons) degree from Queen Mary College, University of London where she graduated in 1992. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 1994. She is an Associate Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre, a Court-appointed Volunteer Mediator and an Associate Mediator with the Law Society Mediation panel. Elaine has had more than 20 years’ of experience in legal practice which focused on Company Law and Corporate and Commercial Law and Estate Planning. She began her career in the Banking Litigation department of a major law firm and later moved in-house for the next 10 years across 3 global MNCs before moving back into corporate and commercial legal practice. Her experience in commercial transactions covering lease and tenancy management; vendor and procurement; marketing, branding and distribution; software development and service level agreements. Elaine has represented both purchasers and vendors in a number of mergers and acquisitions; one of which was a reverse takeover and another, an acquisition of a formerly publicly traded company. In funding exercises, she has provided advice at the seed, mezzanine and bridge financing stages; which involved preferred equity financing and convertible loan note financing. Her experience also includes project financing of utility projects such as tolls, waste-management and water projects. In these project financings, she negotiated and drafted key project and financing agreements. During her stint as Legal Counsel in a US MNC, she carried a dual portfolio which comprised of legal work of a corporate and commercial nature and risk management. There, she single-handedly built the Asia-Pacific risk management framework to mitigate risks in all areas, in particular legal and actuarial risks. Some areas of her continuing legal education include International Financial Law Executive Program conducted by the New York Institute of Finance; Knowledge Management; Risk Management.