Businesses will face a raft of legal challenges in their lifecycle – many will be simply routine while others more complex. This can have a significant impact on your company's turnover, profits and long-term health.

At Aequitas we give you the right legal advice at the right time to protect your business, while adding value to your commercial goals.

Our team have a wealth of legal experience representing commercial and corporate clients, from family-owned businesses to large international enterprises. By providing you with legal advice to achieve your business objectives, we help to manage your legal risks and protect your business relationships.

Our corporate advice includes:

• Buying and selling companies
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Company formation
• Corporate governance
• Management buyouts
• Shareholder agreements and articles of association
• Shareholder disputes and unfair prejudice

Our commercial advice includes:

• Competition law
• Data Protection compliance
• Intellectual property, trademark and licensing
• Distribution agreements
• Limitation of liability
• Supplier and customer contracts

Our Strata Title Law practice is a subset of our Construction Law Practice where we act for groups of owners living in strata title properties. Our team are specialists at Strata Title Law providing a high level of strata and community title law advice and services to the strata industry. With our experience in strata law we have drafted hundreds of by-laws for strata and community schemes in Singapore.

Our team advise councils of strata developments to resolve internal disputes and represent them when they need to pursue claims against parties outside the strata developments.

All construction projects need attention to detail and support at all stages of the construction process. At Aequitas, our team provides bespoke legal advice to ensure you attain your commercial objectives and long-term ambitions.

We have a wealth of experience and expertise in drafting, advising and negotiating on the entire suite of construction legal documentation – including dispute resolution. Whether your project is straightforward or complex, our team will provide advice on the legal framework you need.

International arbitration addresses any case or potential dispute between parties – usually located in two different countries – and is the most common form of alternative dispute resolution (ADR).

At Aequitas, we are recognised as one of the top Singapore law firms for commercial and investment arbitrations. As experts at cross-border arbitration, our team are strategically focused and multilingual, with the capability of handling cases in all industry sectors.

We can hold your hand through every stage of the arbitration process from pre-arbitration litigation to post-award enforcement. As our clients are at the heart of our practice, our team act in the interests that are best for you and your business and this is why we are the go to law firm for ADR in Singapore.

Given the sensitive nature of family disputes, our team's philosophy in family practice is geared towards therapeutic justice with a focus on de-escalating conflict and providing support to our clients. We are experienced in handling all aspects of matrimonial and child-related disputes such as divorce proceedings, ancillary matters, spousal and child maintenance proceedings, family violence and child custody disputes.

The team is helmed by Lim Tat. Tat is a member of the panel of Child Representatives, appointed by the Family Justice Courts. He is also a member on the panel of Collaborative Family Practitioners and a Principal Mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre and Singapore International Mediation Centre. He is an International Mediation Institute certified mediation advocate and an International Mediation Institute certified mediator.

Tat's family practice includes appointments as counsel, collaborative family practitioner, child representative and mediator in domestic and international family and parental child abduction, custody, and access cases.

Given our team's approach to family practice and wealth of experience in the mediation process, we are committed to assisting our clients in reaching the most desirable outcome tailored to each family by managing and easing the intensity of such disputes. We have represented individuals in both contentious proceedings before the Courts and during private mediations and are well-equipped to recommend the ideal course of action to manage each particular dispute.

Aequitas Law LLP has an established track record of advising and consulting with organisations and individuals on the establishment and administration of all matters connected with the collection, use and disclosure of personal data by organisations.

The firm's deep expertise in data protection and privacy encompasses both technical expertise in the fields of information privacy and privacy programme management as well as legal expertise in contentious and non-contentious matters. Recent work and representation in this area includes consulting and representing a town council, commercial corporations, and residential and commercial developments.

Described by the Legal 500 as "punch[ing] above its weight in heavyweight commercial litigation", we have built a humble but formidable disputes team that is recognised for our personalised service and client-oriented approach regardless of the quantum or complexity of the dispute. With the right touch of combativeness and pragmatism, we are dedicated to achieving the best possible legal outcome for our clients whilst managing their commercial concerns.

Our dispute resolution team handles a broad spectrum of disputes on behalf of multinational corporations, SMEs and individuals at all levels of Courts in Singapore, as well as international and domestic arbitration and mediation. Our team has expertise in various fields such as directors' and/or shareholders' disputes, construction and defects disputes, employment disputes and strata title law.

Aequitas has established a notable criminal practice that is well versed in handling both white-collar and blue-collar crime.

Our team has represented clients charged for serious offences ranging from rape and drug trafficking offences to criminal breach of trust and cheating.

With a common ethos that every accused person deserves to be represented and to put forward his side of the story, the criminal practice team at Aequitas is regularly involved with Criminal Legal Aid Scheme cases as well as the Legal Assistance Scheme for Capital Offences. We work tirelessly in fighting our clients' corner and ensuring they have an understanding of the full picture so that they can make an informed decision to obtain the fairest outcome given the circumstances of their case.