Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP

Head, Tax, Private Client

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”.