M-01
Mergers & acquisitions
Control transactions on both sides of the table — the sale you have planned for years and the approach that arrived on Tuesday. Price is negotiated in the drafting, not the term sheet.
Privileged & confidentialHV/2026/001
Halcourt & Vance
Corporate advisory · Singapore · Est. 2003
Begin the record↓
Folio 01 — the opening leaf
In the matter of your next decisive move
- File
- HV/2026/001
- Prepared by
- Halcourt & Vance LLP
- For
- The principal reading this
- Jurisdiction
- Singapore, and wherever the matter leads
What follows is not a brochure. It is a case file — the way we think, the matters we take, the people who take them, and the record we stand on. Read it the way we would read yours: carefully, and to the end.
Folio 02 — Position
We act for principals, not process.
When the matter is consequential — a sale, a dispute, a restructuring — you do not need more people in the room. You need the right three.
Good advice is unpopular before it is correct.
We are retained for judgment, not for reassurance.
Every opinion we give is one we would sign in court.
Halcourt & Vance is deliberately small. Four partners, one office, no leverage model — the person you brief is the person who does the work. We decline more matters than we take, and we put every position in writing, because writing is where loose thinking goes to die.
Folio 03 — Practice
Five matters. Taken whole.
We do not sell hours across forty service lines. We act in five kinds of matter, and in each we act to conclusion.
M-02
Disputes & arbitration
SIAC, SICC, and the quiet resolutions that never reach either. We prepare every dispute as if it will be tried, which is usually why it settles well.
M-03
Private capital
Family offices, founders and the structures between them — holdings, side letters, succession. Documents that keep working after the people who signed them stop speaking.
M-04
Restructuring
When the numbers stop working, sequence matters more than sentiment. Creditor tables, schemes, workouts — the order of operations is the outcome.
M-05
Counsel on call
A standing line to senior counsel — board matters, regulator letters, the message you should not send. No juniors learning on your file.
Folio 04 — Method
How a matter proceeds.
Four stages. Each one ends in writing, and each one is stamped before the next begins.
Stage I
The brief
We take the file whole — the documents you think matter and the ones you don’t. First conference is with a partner; there is no one to be handed down to.
Stage II
The position
Within fourteen days you hold a written position: what we would do, what it costs, what we would not do at any price. Most clients tell us this document alone was worth the call.
Stage III
The work
Negotiation, documentation, appearance — conducted by the partner you briefed. You hear from us before you wonder; the file is annotated as it moves.
Stage IV
The close
Matters end. We close files formally — a closing memorandum, the complete record, and what we would watch for next. Nothing trails off.
Folio 05 — Counsel
Four partners. No bench behind them.
The firm is the four people below. Their admissions and records sit opposite, as exhibits should.
Eleanor Vance
Managing partner · M&A
Twenty years of control transactions. Sellers ask for her twice: once to sell, once to buy back.
Marcus Halcourt
Partner · Disputes
Arbitrator’s habits, advocate’s instincts. Writes the closing submission before the first hearing.
Priya Raghavan
Partner · Private capital
Counsel to three generations of the same families. Her structures survive weddings, divorces and IPOs.
Daniel Koh
Partner · Restructuring
Creditors trust his tables; boards trust his timing. Calm is his only visible strategy.
Folio 06 — Record
The record is the argument.
- S$0.0B
- advised across control transactions
- 0
- matters taken to a formal close
- 0
- years on the record in Singapore
We publish no league tables and buy no directories. The record above is audited the way everything here is audited — file by file, in writing.
Folio 07 — Engagement
Three ways to hold the file.
Fees in writing before work begins. No discovery calls, no proposals deck — a conversation with a partner, then terms.
Form A
Retainer
For principals with recurring exposure. A standing engagement: priority conflict clearance, counsel on call, quarterly file review.
- Monthly, fixed
- 48-hour written positions
- Named partner
Form B
Project
One matter, taken whole — a transaction, a dispute, a restructuring. Scoped in writing at Stage I, priced to the close.
- Fixed or capped
- Stage-gated
- Closing memorandum
Form C
Counsel on call
The standing line, without the retainer. Senior counsel for the board meeting, the regulator letter, the difficult Tuesday.
- Day terms
- Same-week access
- No minimum
Folio 08 — Filed
Filed
Put us on the record.
One conversation with a partner. If we are not the right firm, we will tell you who is.
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