In 1982 Thümmel, Schütze & Part­ner be­came the first Ger­man law firm to re­ceive a for­eign law firm li­cence in Sin­ga­pore, which pre­pared the ground for the launch of its own of­fice in 1984. Since 15th Novem­ber 2005 all ad­vice giv­en by the firm in Sin­ga­pore has been ren­dered by Thümmel, Schütze & Part­ners LLP, which is reg­is­tered as an in­de­pen­dent en­ti­ty. Lawyers in the Sin­ga­pore of­fice fo­cus on im­por­tant busi­ness and le­gal is­sues re­lat­ed to Ger­man and South East Asian com­pa­ny law, in­ter­na­tion­al trade law, in­ter­na­tion­al bank­ing law, labour law in Ger­many and South East Asia as well as rep­re­sen­ta­tion in court and ar­bi­tra­tion pro­ceed­ings in all mat­ters re­lat­ing to South East Asia, or Ger­many and the Eu­ro­pean Union. Le­gal ad­vice to clients is fre­quent­ly re­lat­ed to the fol­low­ing ar­eas:

• in­cor­po­ra­tion of sub­sidiaries, reg­is­tra­tion of branch­es and rep­re­sen­ta­tive of­fices;
• con­tracts (merg­ers and ac­qui­si­tions, joint ven­tures and oth­er cor­po­rate agree­ments, dis­trib­u­tor­ship and agen­cy agree­ments, em­ploy­ment, tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer and li­cence agree­ments, gen­er­al con­di­tions);