Vikna Rajah

Office Location

Singapore

Short Biography

I am a member of Rajah & Tann’s Executive Management Committee and head of the firm’s Tax and Trust & Private Client Practices. As a leading Trust & Private Wealth lawyer in South-east Asia, I am regularly engaged to advise leading trust companies and ultra-high net worth families to create family offices and multi-generational trusts that best address their succession planning needs. Most recently, I won “Lawyer of the Year” for Trusts and Estates in Singapore by The Best Lawyers in Singapore 2022, as well as “Private Client Lawyer of the Year” at The Asia Legal Awards 2017. I am recognised as one of the world’s Top 250 Private Client Lawyers by Legal Week’s Private Client Global Elite 2018. I am also ranked as a Leading Individual for Private Wealth by both The Legal 500 Asia Pacific since 2017 and the Chambers High Net Worth Guide since 2017.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

1880 Singapore

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

"If you're not moving forward then you're falling behind."

What was your first job?

Commercial Litigation and International Arbitration

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Book by Bill Gifford and Peter Attia

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

An increase in Family Governance work