Edmund Leow SC

Practice Areas

Edmund is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group and Head of the Tax practice. He is also Co-Head of the Trust, Estates & Wealth Preservation/Family Office practice. He has three decades of experience in advising multinational organisations on cross-border tax planning, transfer pricing and tax disputes. He also advises on international trade issues such as customs, WTO and free-trade agreements.

Edmund also leads the firm’s Trust, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice and advises high net worth individuals, private banks and trust companies in personal tax, as well as in trust and estate planning matters. He is the Singapore representative of Dentons' Family Office and High Net Worth (DFO) Sector (which offers legal services to ultra-high net worth individuals, families, and family offices spanning numerous practices and jurisdictions), and he advises affluent Singapore and global families with succession planning. Edmund provides a broad range of advice to assist these individuals and their families in business and legal activities across the globe.

Edmund was invited by the government to serve as a Judicial Commissioner at the Supreme Court. On stepping down, he was appointed Senior Counsel in 2017, making him the first and only Tax and Trust lawyer to be given this accolade nationwide.

Edmund is a highly recognised individual in various legal directories for his expertise in the area of tax and private wealth law. His views on tax and wealth management are widely sought and publicised in the media, such as Bloomberg, BBC, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, The Financial Times and The Straits Times. He was also a founding partner of a Singapore law firm that was associated with an international law firm, where he headed up the Tax and Wealth Management practices in Singapore.

Edmund is the President and an honorary member of the Singapore Trustees Association (STA). He is a co-founder of the STA which represents the interests of trust companies in Singapore.

In addition, he was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Income Tax Board of Review, which is a statutory tribunal which hears income tax disputes between the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and taxpayers.

Career

Senior Partner – Dentons Rodyk (2017 – Present)

Senior Counsel since 2018

Supreme Court of Singapore (2013 – 2016)

Baker & McKenzie, London, Hong Kong and Singapore (1987 – 2013)

Professional Memberships

Member, WMI Global-Asia Family Office Partners Circle Membership Committee, Wealth Management Institute

President, Singapore Trustees Association

Deputy Chairman, Income Tax Board of Review

Publications

2021 Budget tax developments

Substance, Structures, Service and Singapore

Looking Beyond the Label into the True Quality of Severance Payments – GCT v Comptroller of Income Tax

Personal

International Tax Review Asia Tax Awards: Asia Tax Practice Leader of the Year, 2019