Corporate Agreements

Strong corporate structures form the legal foundation of a successful business. Yet, in practice, many disputes arise not from bad intentions, but from agreements that fail to anticipate how a business and the relationship between its stakeholders will evolve over time.

Poorly drafted corporate agreements often lead to misaligned expectations, decision-making deadlocks, and shareholder disputes that can disrupt or even paralyse the business.

We recognise that each business operates within its own unique dynamics and that effective agreements must go beyond standard provisions to address practical realities and future uncertainties.

At Huei Sze & Co, we advise on and draft a range of corporate agreements, including shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements, and share sale agreements. In doing so, we place particular emphasis on areas that commonly give rise to disputes, including governance structures, allocation of decision-making powers, reserved matters, funding obligations, and exit mechanisms. We also carefully consider minority protection, transfer restrictions, and dispute resolution frameworks to ensure that the agreement remains workable, balanced, and commercially viable even in challenging circumstances.

Commercial Agreements

Day-to-day business operations rely heavily on contracts. Yet, many disputes arise not from complex issues, but from unclear, incomplete, or overlooked commercial terms.

In practice, the absence of a properly structured agreement often steams parties proceeding on trust, relying on piecemeal correspondence such as emails or messages, hesitating to assert their bargaining position when dealing with larger counterparties, or underestimating the risks involved.

Such arrangements may appear workable at the outset. However, when a dispute arises, these fragmented records often prove difficult to reconcile, as material terms may be incomplete, inconsistent, or open to interpretation. This makes it challenging to ascertain the parties’ true intentions, rights, and obligations, and frequently results in protracted disputes, increased costs, and unnecessary commercial strain.

At Huei Sze & Co, we assist clients in drafting and reviewing commercial agreements with the objective of enabling them to navigate transactions with clarity and confidence across the entire lifecycle – from performance, delivery, payment structures, obligations of parties, and risk allocation to expiry or termination arrangement.

Our experience spans distribution agreements, supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, service agreements, collaboration agreements, agency agreements, marketing agreements, reseller agreements, and so on. We place particular emphasis on ensuring that these agreements are not only legally sound, but also commercially practical and aligned with the realities of day-to-day business operations.