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.
Value vs Costs
We have often heard: Singaporeans know the COSTS of everything but do not know the VALUE of anything. This is a criticism of our small mindedness and small businesses. What [...]
Why Is Our Law Firm Named After An Ice Cream Flavour?
VANILLA = PLAIN & SIMPLE Prior to the present name of the law firm, my firm was called “MG Chambers”. Then in 2013, I decided I needed a name change. [...]
Singapore’s “Hawkergate”: Were There Other Ways To Handle It?
Set your search settings to cover the past year or so, and key in the words ‘hawkers’, ‘social enterprise’ and ‘Singapore’ and you will be greeted with article upon article [...]
Big Brand Illusion: How Not To Regret Partnering With Big Companies
I read the story of Google-backed Chinese tech startup Mobvoi’s travails with Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. The crux is how the nascent startup was so excited to partner with Xiaomi that [...]
VanillaLaw LLC @ TechLaw.Fest 2018
We were recently invited to TechLaw.Fest 2018 to share our journey and how we embraced technology. Below is a short description of the panel, folowed by the full speech Mark [...]