Doing legal business in Singapore

Everything you need to know about practising in Singapore as an English or Welsh solicitor, setting up a law firm office, or requalifying as a lawyer in Singapore.

Singapore is Southeast Asia’s leading commercial and financial hub. It’s renowned for its outward-looking economy, political stability and first-rate infrastructure.

Singapore ranks second in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index 2020.

This tremendous growth has been stimulated by a stable and business-friendly regulatory structure – also attributing to a burgeoning legal services industry in the country.

The country has a longstanding trade relationship with the UK and is home to over 1,000 British companies and 30,000 British expatriates.

As an English speaking, ultramodern business centre, Singapore has a lot to offer English and Welsh law firms and their clients.

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