We were delighted, but even more so, overawed, to have been given this opportunity to contribute an article on company law towards this festschrift in honour of the Chief Justice of Singapore, Chan Sek Keong. Both of us were in law school during his first stint in the Judiciary from 1986 to 1992, first as judicial commissioner and then in what was in effect, from our perspective at least, the position of a Chancery judge. Company law has been very much a part of our lives since although, as was said in a different context, it is something we “never learned, but … never quite forgotten”. But this piece will focus less on company law per se and so contains little discussion on areas such as corporate finance, in which Chan CJ has had vital decisions both at first instance and in the Court of Appeal. Rather, it is about the legal prism through which a company can be viewed, and consequently the different images generated once the position of the subject matter or the viewer shifts even slightly. While we believe that the concept of the company will continue to surprise us going forward, we embrace this opportunity to re-examine the way we have looked at the corporate structure, particularly through a close study of the Chief Justice’s judgments, over this past quarter of a century or so. We also heed the Chief Justice’s point about his being jointly responsible for the other Court of Appeal judgments with which he has concurred since 2006.