Doing legal business 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.

On this page:

• practising in Singapore
• the legal profession
• legal system and courts
• legal services market
• foreign law firms
• qualifying as a foreign lawyer in Singapore
• requalifying in England and Wales
• the Law Society and Singapore
• resources