An LLP is another form of doing business in Singapore. This means that instead of registering a business or a company in Singapore, interested parties may choose to register an LLP to carry out their business activities. The LLP will give the owners the flexibility of operating as a partnership whilst giving them limited liability. It combines the benefits of a partnership with those of private limited companies. However this comes with safeguards in law to minimize abuse and provide protection to parties who deal with the LLP. The LLP is a body corporate and has legal personality separate from its partners. The LLP has perpetual succession. Any change in the partners of a LLP does not affect its existence, rights or liabilities.

An LLP is capable of:

• Suing and being sued in its name
• Acquiring and holding property in its name;
• Having a common seal and
• Doing such other acts and things in its name, as bodies corporate may lawfully do and suffer.