Legal Services
Legal startup LawCanvas spreads its wings to three more countries
Singapore-based legal startup LawCanvas is expanding to Australia, Malaysia and Hong Kong, with a closed beta to refine its services.
Legal eagles: The computer science-law mashup Legalese.io
Singapore startup Legalese.io has just launched, hoping that ‘software will eat the law’ when it comes to drafting legal documents for startups and VCs to use. Benjamin Cher reports.
Fledgling legal startups take flight in Singapore
Legal services still remain relatively untouched by the startup boom in Asia. Obfuscated terms and legal jargon provide high barriers of entry, giving lawyers a monopoly. But that might change with a couple of new startups making their debut, writes Benjamin Cher.
Investments, and navigating South-East Asia's legal morass
Differences in culture, economic growth and technological development all notwithstanding, perhaps the most formidable challenge affecting the unrestricted flow of venture capital across South-East Asia is the sheer complexity in navigating the legal environments within each respective market, writes Justin Hall of Golden Gate Ventures.
Singaporean duo releases open-source angel investment templates
Singaporean angel investor Bernard Leong and lawyer Huifen Zheng have launched a set of open source term sheets and share transfer documents that they believe would help both entrepreneurs and angel investors navigate the complexities of the legal documents associated with the fundraising part of startups.
In Thailand, Stein Advisors aims to plug ecosystem gap
Julian Leitner’s own frustrations with trying to do business in Thailand compelled him to co-found Stein Advisors, a legal advisory firm which provides very focused services to innovative startups.
