Business Translation Services Singapore

No, and please do not let anyone tell you it does. Your contract should name one version as the governing text, and that clause is what a court follows. Our job is to make the other version say the same thing as closely as language allows. When we deliver, we mark clearly that ours is a translation and not the governing text. If your contract has no governing language clause at all, tell your lawyer before you sign. That gap causes more disputes than any wording we could fix.

This one matters more than people expect. If the parent has ever used an English name on a bank account, an invoice or an earlier filing, we use that exact name and stay consistent. If there is genuinely no English name on record, we write the name in its original script, add a plain reading beside it, and note that the reading is ours. Never let two different English spellings of one company appear across your bundle. A reviewer treats them as two separate companies and asks you to start again.

We do not convert, and you should be glad we refuse. Exchange rates move, so a converted figure would be wrong within days and your paper would no longer match the original. Same with dates. What we do instead is keep the original figure exactly, then add a bracket note where a format could be misread. So a date written 03/04 gets a note saying which is the day and which is the month. Your finance team gets clarity without the paper being changed.

Not on certified work, and never through a free public tool. Anything you paste into a public tool can be stored on someone else's server, which for a live deal is a real risk. Our translators use a private word list built from your own past files, which is a very different thing from a machine writing your contract. If you would like this written into your agreement with us, ask and we will put it in. More companies are asking for that clause now, and we think they are right to.

Straight answer. We put our name and stamp on the work, so if the error is ours we correct it, restamp it and cover the cost of redoing the file. What no translation firm can promise is to cover your commercial loss on the deal itself, and you should be careful with anyone who says otherwise. That is why we send an unstamped draft first. Your legal team reads it, signs off, and the risk drops for both sides. If your company needs specific liability terms in writing, send them and we will discuss what we can agree to.

No. Send us the new version with your changes marked, and we only charge for the parts that actually changed. The rest of the file is already done and stays as it is. Tell us at the start that the document is still moving, and we will hold the file open for you instead of closing the job. Deals that go through five or six rounds are completely normal here, and nobody should be paying five or six times for the same page.

Yes, and this is one of the easiest ways to save money with us. Send two or three of your old files at the start. We pull out your product names, job titles and standard clauses and build a word list from them. Your new files then read like the old ones, so nobody internally has to relearn anything. That list belongs to you. If you ever leave us, you can take it with you.

Yes. Send your firm's version and we sign that one. Most corporate legal teams prefer it that way and we have no problem with it. The translator assigned to your job signs one as well, so the cover reaches the person actually reading your papers. If your NDA needs signing before you can even send the file, tell us the document type and rough page count and we will still quote you first.