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Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP Offices

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
9 STRAITS VIEW
MARINA ONE WEST TOWER #06-07
SINGAPORE 018937
018937
Singapore
Visit website 65 6535 3600 65 6225 9630

Vikna Rajah

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+65 6232 0597 vikna.rajah@rajahtann.com

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Head, Tax, Private Client

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Vikna Rajah is recognised as a leading lawyer in both Tax and Trust & Private Client practices. He, who also has a degree in accountancy, is praised in the legal directories as being an “experienced litigator” with “extensive tax knowledge”, who is “an extremely intelligent man” and is “excellent to work with”. He also combines “very deep technical expertise with acute commercial acumen", while "carefully listening to his clients and putting himself in their shoes”.

Vikna won “Private Client Lawyer of the Year” at The Asia Legal Awards 2017 and is recognised as one of the world’s Top 250 Private Client Lawyers by Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2018 and one of the world’s Leading Experts in Private Client Practice by Who’s Who Legal 2017. He is also ranked as a Leading Individual for Private Wealth by both The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 and the Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2018. The Private Wealth Practice which he leads is also ranked Band 1 by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018.

Vikna led the Tax Practice to clinch Singapore’s Tax Disputes and Litigation Firm of the Year by the International Tax Review 2017 and he is ranked Tier 1 for Tax by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 and a leading tax lawyer by Chambers Asia Pacific 2018. Aside from being recognised by the Singapore Business Review 2015 as one of Singapore’s Top 40 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under, Vikna was also one of Prestige Singapore’s 40 Under 40 (2017), being heralded as one of the “movers and shakers and the dream makers to watch”.

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Singapore > Tax: local firms

(Leading individuals)

Vikna Rajah – Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Praised as an ‘excellent tax team, recognised as a leading practice amongst peers and the industry alike’, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP handles a broad range of mandates, from cross-border tax advisory and tax controversy to goods and services, in addition to stamp duty and property tax. An expert in tax disputes against the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Vikna Rajah leads the practice and is ‘at the top of his game, achieving results for clients due to his strategic thinking and attention to detail’.

Singapore > Private wealth and family law – local firms

(Leading individuals)

Vikna Rajah – Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP advises a substantial number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals and wealthy families in Asia and worldwide, along with a range of institutional clients. It continues to work intensively in the establishment of family offices and in business succession planning. It has a prestigious record in wills and probate, family and matrimonial law, real estate, integrated tax, and trusts and estate wealth planning and structuring, among other areas. Vikna Rajah heads the tax and trust practice, co-heads the private client group, and has an outstanding record in the establishment of family offices. Chandra Mohan Rethnam co-heads the private client team and is an experienced figure in disputes involving private wealth. Kee Lay Lian heads the family law practice.

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