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Seah Ching Ling

Director, Tax and Private Clients Services

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Qualifications

  • LL.B (Hons), National University of Singapore
  • Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore
Overview

Ching Ling is one of Singapore’s most experienced private wealth lawyers, with more than two decades of continuous experience in trusts, succession and family wealth planning. She advises ultra-high-net-worth individuals, prominent business families, entrepreneurs and Forbes-listed billionaires from Singapore, Greater China, Southeast Asia, North Asia, India and Europe on complex cross-border wealth structuring and intergenerational succession.

Her practice spans the full spectrum of private wealth planning, including family and philanthropic trusts, private trust companies, family offices and investment structures, succession and estate planning, family governance, wills, lasting powers of attorney and probate. She regularly acts for first-generation wealth creators and multi-generational business families on the preservation and transition of family wealth, including the restructuring of existing trust arrangements and the establishment of governance frameworks for successive generations.

Ching Ling also advises family offices, trust companies, financial institutions and corporate clients on Singapore tax, trust and regulatory matters. Her practice includes philanthropy and legacy planning, and she has advised on the establishment and operation of charitable trusts, foundations and other non-profit structures.

Ching Ling is ranked Band 1 for Family Offices & Funds Structuring by Chambers High Net Worth and is also ranked for Private Wealth Law. She is recognised for Private Wealth & Family Law by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, and has also been recognised by International Tax Review, Doyle’s Guide and Lexology Index.

  • Advised a South Asian billionaire on the comprehensive restructuring of his worldwide assets and the establishment of a family office, multiple family trusts and a section 13U fund structure involving assets in excess of S$1 billion for succession purposes.
  • Advised a Singapore Forbes 10 family on restructuring its existing family trust and establishing new trusts for second-generation family members, including addressing significant cross-border tax and succession implications arising from family members relocating to high-tax jurisdictions.
  • Advised a Portuguese UHNW family on a multi-generational succession structure comprising a family office, a private trust company and several family trusts, including the separation of operating business interests from financial and investment assets.
  • Advised multiple Forbes-listed families on integrated family office, section 13U fund and trust structures, together with family governance and cross-border succession planning for multi-generational family wealth.
  • Advised Japanese, Taiwanese, Indonesian and Filipino UHNW families on the establishment and restructuring of family trusts and private wealth structures for intergenerational succession and asset preservation.
  • Advised a major Singapore sovereign investment institution on the establishment of its charitable trust and related foundation structure, including governance, regulatory and operational matters.
  • Advised one of Singapore’s leading banks on the establishment of its corporate philanthropic foundation, including structuring, governance and regulatory considerations.

The Asia Pacific Legal 500
Private Wealth & Family Law 2026 – Next Generation Partner

“Seah Ching Ling is our regular contact for high-net-worth practice. She is very reliable, trustworthy and thinks flexibly. She is the best lawyer in high-net-worth practice areas in Singapore. She is also efficient in providing to the point advice based on her abundant experience.”

Ching Ling is “technically strong and has good commercial sense. Easy to communicate and work with”.

“Seah Ching Ling is very experienced, commercial-minded and sensitive to client’s requirements in the area of tax and trusts, which is helpful when one has to navigate through concepts and issues which may be complex and confusing at times. She can always be counted on to provide advice that is practical and sensible.”

“Seah Ching Ling is very knowledgeable in her field of work and always willing to go the extra mile. Very responsive and clients can be assured that they are in good hands with her.”

“Seah Ching Ling is able to fully understand our needs and has great attention to detail. She also makes us feel comfortable and reassured. We feel that these qualities are crucial for a family office and trusts lawyer.”

“Ching Ling Seah is highly professional, very knowledgeable, very willing to share knowledge, highly responsive, very commercial and able to keep to budget.”

“Ching Ling gives very good advice which is very sound and commercial. The depth of experience really shows.”

International Tax Review: World Tax
Women in Tax Leaders 2026
Private Client 2026 – Notable Practitioner

Chambers High Net Worth
Family Offices & Funds Structuring 2026 – Band 1
Private Wealth Law 2026 – Band 3

“Ching Ling Seah is highly professional, very knowledgeable, very willing to share, highly responsive and very commercial.”

“Ching Ling gives very good advice, which is very sound and commercial. The depth of experience really shows, and she's very responsive and reasonable.”

“Seah is very responsive to client requests and queries. She is highly knowledgeable in ultra high net worth individual tax law.” 

Doyle’s Guide
Recognised as a Leading Lawyer for both Wills, Estates & Succession Planning as well as High Net Worth Succession Planning

Lexology Index
Recognised as a Recommended Lawyer for both Private Client & Offshore Services as well as Trust & Advisory Services

“Ching Ling provides practical advice that is clear and easy to understand.”

Best Lawyers International: Singapore
Tax Law 2025 – Endorsed individual

  • Member, Law Society of Singapore
  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law
  • TEP, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners