OPERA (Offers and Prospectuses Electronic Repository and Access) is an electronic system which allows for:
(i) lodgments of prospectuses for offers of shares, debentures, and units in business trusts and collective investment schemes
(“CIS”);
(ii) lodgments of offer documents in respect of mergers and acquisitions under the
Singapore Code on Take-Overs and Mergers;
(iii) submissions of applications for authorization/recognition of CISs and updates
on information on CISs; and
(iv) submissions of applications for registration,
and regulatory lodgments, of business trusts.
OPERA also allows any member of the public to:
(i)
view prospectuses lodged with or registered with MAS and comment on lodged prospectuses before MAS registers them;
(ii)
find out the status of prospectuses lodged with MAS;
(iii)
view offer documents concerning take-overs and mergers; and
(iv)
request for extracts of the register of business trusts.
