Case Studies
Explore practical case studies and business lessons from VanillaLaw’s work with SMEs, founders, investors and cross-border companies. These articles show how legal structure, negotiation strategy, intellectual property protection and commercial decision-making affect real business outcomes.
Use this page as a starting point if you want to understand how legal issues appear in day-to-day business rather than in theory. The articles below cover examples involving contracts, expansion, brand value, finance, disputes and SME growth. For readers comparing legal options, the strongest next step is to identify the business problem first, then read the case study that most closely matches the decision you are facing.
Why Should SMEs Choose To Do Business In Singapore?
Stratospheric Economic Growth In order to properly answer this question, we need to take a quick inside look into the overall development and evolution of Singapore’s economy and its approach [...]
Mediation During The Pandemic & Beyond
The pressure of confinement, non-fulfillment of contractual obligations, unemployment, and divorce have all weighed heavily on global citizens during this pandemic. As a result, both at home and at work, [...]
Don’t Forget the Hippos
The current geopolitical scene today is dominated by two elephants, namely the USA and China. The USA remains the world’s largest economy and the American military remains the only military [...]
Conflict!
Often get a quizzical look from SME (small and medium sized enterprises) owners when I ask them whether they know the difference between “conflict resolution” vs “conflict management”.It is tragic [...]
Don’t Lose Your Business In This Crisis!
As a dispute resolution lawyer of more than 26 years, the most common question which I get asked is what is the difference between negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation? I understand [...]
Business Is Non-Binary
Having practised litigation work for more than 25 years, one would not be wrong to reduce the work to this simple formula: Someone has to win and someone has to [...]