Careers @
Rajah & Tann south asia desk
What We Offer
We promise you a best in class mentorship and training experience and exposure to cutting-edge and complex work.
When you apply to join us, or during your interview, please let us know which practice group you would like to join.
If you’re not certain of your preferred specialist area at this stage, don’t worry, you won’t be boxed in. In addition to training in your chosen primary practice area, you will also be given exposure in at least one other area. If you have no preference at all, we assess your personality and work with you to identify an area of practice you may be suited to.
And if, after starting in one practice area, you realise that it is not the right kind of work for you, we’ll do our best within the bounds of the Firm’s needs to accommodate a switch.
There are three broad aspects to your training at Rajah & Tann:
With your Supervising Solicitor
He or she, a highly experienced partner and mentor, will take charge of your training, supervising and guiding you, providing feedback on your performance, and ensuring that you are achieving all your learning objectives.
With your Practice Group
You’ll have the opportunity to work with the other partners and lawyers within the group, who may supervise your work and critique it as part of your training.
With the Firm in General
With us, you will get a great foundation that will serve you well for the rest of your career. Our practice focused training programme, “Raising the Bar”, has been specially designed to equip you with the insight and practical skills you need to perform effectively in the modern legal profession.
As drivers of legal innovation, we never cease to reinvent ourselves and to prepare you for the transformative change in the legal industry, our RTA Academy is excited to be working with PeterConnor, CEO and Founder of AlternativelyLegal to groom you to be client-focused, business ready and tech-savvy lawyers within the RTA network based on his T-shaped Lawyer Framework™.
This collaboration will allow you to be trained in alternative ways of approaching the practice of law and develop non-traditional skills such as process improvement; design thinking; change management; business partnering and project management amongst others to enhance our value and service to our clients.
You know it’s going to be hard work and we don’t pretend otherwise, but we do our best to provide a good balance of fun, camaraderie and support.
Everyone in the firm is on first name terms, and we’re proud of our most senior lawyers’ commitment to taking a personal role in the development of our trainees and associates. You’ll find that all our partners are happy to take the time to teach you the finer points of the law and commercial practice – not something that happens in every law firm.
We constantly seek opportunities to offer both local and overseas secondments for promising associates who have worked with us for a reasonable period. We not only want to equip you with the skills you need to achieve your aspirations, but to spur you onto greater heights in your career.
At Rajah & Tann, we expect a great deal from our people, at all levels. In return for their talent and dedication, we ensure that they are appropriately rewarded, both financially and in terms of the generous range of benefits they receive.
Every Rajah & Tann lawyer can expect:
- Competitive remuneration, bonuses and related benefits.
- Top-grade technological and infrastructural support.
- Desk-top access to Lexis-Nexis, Lawnet and other essential research tools.
- Desk-top access to Rajah & Tann’s database of precedents, legal updates and other materials, O@SIS.
- Support from professional administrative staff.
- Regular and comprehensive in-house continuing legal education conducted by leading lawyers.
- Opportunities for external training courses, seminars and conferences, including overseas stints for deserving candidates.
As a trainee with Rajah & Tann, you’ll enjoy an attractive package that includes:
- Competitive honorarium.
- A sign on bonus for trainees who are retained.
- Reimbursement of various fees after completion of your practice training with us and acceptance to our offer of employment.
Why Join Us
As one of the top firms in Singapore with a full range of legal services, Rajah & Tann offers a unique opportunity to further your ambitions.
A career with Rajah & Tann promises to be a challenging and rewarding experience. We are always on the look out for outstanding lawyers with excellent written and verbal communication skills, initiative and drive. Integrity and sound judgment are also essential in potential candidates.
Rajah & Tann’s philosophy is to provide value to clients, to engage our lawyers to meet their full potential and to reward them for their efforts.
We value hard work, integrity and team players. We encourage our lawyers to use practical yet creative approaches to develop legal solutions. The challenging nature of our work constantly propels us to innovate and provide efficiently produced, quality work to meet every client’s expectation.
Lawyers joining us can expect exposure to news-making deals, as many of our practices are industry-leaders.
A career with Rajah & Tann translates into an opportunity to develop and hone your legal skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.
Vacancies
Is Rajah & Tann the law firm you are looking for?
Confident that you've got the qualities we're looking for?
If so, we warmly invite you to browse the application details on this page
and we look forward to meeting you.
Applying for a Training Contract
TC 2025 will give our trainees a meaningful opportunity to train in more than one practice area, with a focus on your allocated major seat. Each application must be accompanied with the following information and documents:
- A cover letter of no more than one page setting out:
- your preferred major seats (if any) and why you believe yourself to be suited to these areas;
- reasons why you believe yourself to be a unique proposition to Rajah & Tann Asia; and
- anything interesting about yourself which you would like the firm to know.
- A curriculum vitae of no more than three pages setting out:
- contact details;
- academic history, awards and achievements;
- extra-curricular activities; and
- prior work experience.
- A copy of your latest law school transcripts.
Please submit your application online:
SINGAPORE LAW GRADUATES | OVERSEAS UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
If we would like to interview you, we will usually reach out to you within one to two weeks of selection by our Recruitment Committee. We will nonetheless endeavour to inform all candidates of the outcome of their application within three to four weeks of your application. Please bear with us as our Recruitment Committee reviews every application thoroughly.
We are still accepting applications for TC 2023 and TC 2024. Candidates who wish to apply for training seats with a view to qualifying in 2023/2024, please email us at recruitment@rajahtann.com.
Candidates should apply with:
- A cover letter of no more than 1 page, which sets out
- preferred areas of practice; and
- reasons why the candidate believes himself or herself to be a unique proposition to Rajah & Tann Asia;
- A CV of no more than 3 pages, which sets out
- contact details;
- academic record and achievements (including predicted class of honours upon graduation);
- extra-curricular activities and achievements;
- prior work experience; and
- a copy of law school transcripts where available, including the grades for the academic term immediately preceding the application.
To apply, please write in with your detailed CV, educational certificates and transcripts to recruitment@rajahtann.com.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN APPEALS & ISSUES PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 3 years post qualification experience.
- Strong academic credentials.
- Sound foundation in legal knowledge and skills.
- Commitment to technical excellence and delivering excellent client service.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Excellent communication, research and drafting skills.
- Meticulous and well organised.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN BANKING & FINANCE PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 4 years post qualification experience.
- Relevant experience in banking & finance work.
- Sound foundation in legal knowledge and skills.
- Commitment to technical excellence and delivering excellent client service.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Excellent communication and drafting skills.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN CAPITAL MARKETS / MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 6 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in capital markets/M&A work.
- Good grounding in legal knowledge and skills.
- Works well in a team as well as independently.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen.
- Good communication skills.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN CONSTRUCTION & PROJECTS, ENERGY & RESOURCES PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with 1 to 3 years post-qualification experience.
- Relevant experience in an established law firm with sound foundation in construction law or front-end project transactional work.
- Commitment to technical excellence and delivering excellent client service.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Good research and drafting skills.
- Keen interest in the construction and energy and resource sectors.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE / JUNIOR PARTNER IN CORPORATE REAL ESTATE PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 7 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in transactional corporate real estate matters focusing on commercial and industrial properties.
- Sound foundation in property laws, regulations and conveyancing practice and procedures.
- Commitment to technical excellence and delivering excellent client service.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Excellent communication and drafting skills.
- Excellent research skills.
- Keen interest in the real estate sector.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 1 to 3 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in banking and finance / M&A practices.
- Possesses initiative, drive, commercial acumen and can work independently.
- Good communication skills.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION & INVESTIGATIONS PRACTICE
We are looking to bolster our market leading dispute resolution and investigations practice in Singapore with dynamic, passionate and collaborative lawyers. The role will involve your working primarily on cross-border corporate, commercial, and financial disputes, contentious insolvencies and restructurings, and fraud and regulatory investigations and litigation.
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 1 to 5 years post qualification experience.
- Relevant experience gained in a top tier practice.
- Strong academic credentials.
- Well-rounded individual, outgoing personality, self starter, with a passion for advocacy.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE / JUNIOR PARTNER IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 3 to 7 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in financial products and services regulation and documentation work would be a plus.
- Good grounding in legal knowledge and skills.
- Possesses initiative, drive, commercial acumen, and works well in a team.
- Good communication and drafting skills.
LEGAL POSITIONS IN FUNDS & INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICE
Rajah & Tann’s award-winning Funds & Investment Management Practice is inviting applications from committed and driven lawyers to join our practice.
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 1 year post qualification experience.
- Positions available for both offshore qualified lawyers and Singapore qualified lawyers.
- Some experience in funds and investment management preferred although not necessary.
- Good grounding in general corporate law.
- Possesses initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Good communication and drafting skills.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN INTEGRATED REGULATORY PRACTICE
As an Associate, you will have the opportunity to work in a close-knit and collaborative team that handles a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters. On the regulatory front, you will be involved in regulatory and advisory work in the forefront of legal developments relating to privacy, anti-corruption and bribery, consumer, competition and telecommunications, to name a few. As Singapore becomes the “hub” for ASEAN and Asia, you will frequently be involved in cross border and regional work. Additionally, you will gain experience and be involved in a variety of regional transactions, joint ventures and other regional strategic corporate transactions, advising clients and stakeholders and managing key aspects of due diligence, drafting documents and execution.
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 4 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in regulatory advisory matters including privacy, antitrust compliance, anti-corruption and bribery, consumer etc.
- Experience in general transactional and corporate matters.
- Good grounding in legal knowledge and skills.
- Possesses initiative, drive, commercial acumen, and works well in a team.
- Good communication and drafting skills.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, SPORTS & GAMING PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with 7 to 10 years post qualification experience.
- Sound foundation in legal knowledge and skills.
- Commitment to technical excellence and delivering excellent client service.
- Possess initiative, drive and commercial acumen, and can work well both independently and in a team.
- Excellent communication and drafting skills.
- Established and portable client portfolio.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN LEGAL BASIX, RAJAH & TANN SINGAPORE LLP
Legal Basix is a specialised practice group in Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP that focuses on providing baseline and growth-stage legal advice and representation to businesses, from emerging enterprises, start-ups and SMEs to high growth companies. We provide holistic solutions to help businesses negotiate, revise and draft basic agreements, trade/commercial terms, advise on and create appropriate corporate and employment structures, resolve disputes by negotiation, mediation and litigation and navigate and manage relationships with statutory bodies such as the Ministry of Manpower, Central Provident Fund Board and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. To find out more
about us and what we do, please read here.
Legal Basix is inviting applications for an associate (PQE 1-3) to join the team with a focus on commercial and employment disputes.
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 1 to 3 years post qualification experience.
- The successful candidate will have the following attributes:
- Has good grounding in legal knowledge, research capabilities and basic drafting skills.
- A fast learner and able to apply law to facts.
- Good communication skills.
- Works well in a fast-moving team and comfortable operating in a high-performance environment.
- Meticulous, well organised, is proactive and takes ownership of issues.
- Experience and familiarity in handling commercial disputes and/or employment matters (contentious and noncontentious) will be a plus.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE IN SHIPPING & INTERNATIONAL TRADE PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 4 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in shipping practice in top tier firms.
- Possesses initiative, drive, commercial acumen and can work independently.
- Excellent communication skills.
LEGAL ASSOCIATE / SENIOR ASSOCIATE IN TAX PRACTICE
This is your opportunity to join a top-tier and award winning practice, with the unique position to be involved in both advisory, transactional and dispute work. You will work on the most complex tax litigation matters, including GST,
income tax and property tax disputes, involving landmark points of law. In addition, you will advise on high-profile, cross-border restructuring and transactions.
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 2 to 7 years post qualification experience.
- Relevant experience in tax practice, either in private practice or IRAS.
- Advance Tax Programme certification would be a bonus.
- Attributes
- Relishes the challenge of working in a top-tier practice.
- Strategic thinker and commercial minded.
- Possesses initiative and drive.
- Meticulous and well organised.
SENIOR ASSOCIATE / JUNIOR PARTNER IN TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA & TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRACTICE
Requirements
- Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 5 years post qualification experience.
- Experience in data protection, cybersecurity, technology, or other related areas of practice.
- Strong interest in legal aspects of technology related work.
- Good grounding in legal knowledge, research capabilities and drafting skills.
- Ability to think laterally, possesses initiative, drive, and commercial acumen.
- Works well in a team as well as independently.
Current Openings with our Knowledge Management team:
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Working closely with the Regional Director of Knowledge Management, the successful candidate will be framing and implementing knowledge management initiatives to bring our firm’s publications, learning & development framework and knowledge sharing process and platforms to the next level.
You will have close engagement with the lawyers to ensure that their knowhow needs are met.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and implementing robust frameworks and creative initiatives that promote knowledge-sharing culture.
- Participating in projects that introduce new resources, including innovation tools, for our lawyers.
- Engaging actively with our practice groups to curate, collate, organise, draft and/or maintain standard forms, practice notes and precedents.
- Engaging actively with our practice groups to identify their knowhow and learning & development needs.
- Drafting, editing and proofreading publications and thought leadership pieces.
The role will challenge you to think out of the box, explore innovative solutions and harness technology to develop solutions that drive productivity in our workplace. If you fit the following criteria and would like to work in a team with a driven, collaborative and supportive culture, please apply to us:
Requirements
- Possess at least five years’ experience in a legal professional role in a law firm (experience in legal KM would be an advantage).
- Have a law degree (Singapore or foreign).
- Have good English communication skills (written and verbal).
- Keen interest in law and keeping up to date with legal & regulatory developments in Singapore and in the region.
- Interested in technological advances and their potential impact on law firms.
- Possess good legal research skills.
- A team player with a can-do attitude.
Applications
All applications should be addressed to:
Human Resource Partner
Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
9 Straits View #06-07 Marina One West Tower
Singapore 018937
Email: recruitment@rajahtann.com
The application window for internships with us in 2023 opens at 9.00am SGT on 12 December 2022 and closes on 31 January 2023.
Internships are a great opportunity for you to get to know us and see first-hand what the life of a practising lawyer is like. Our programme is designed to take you on a tour of the firm and provide a platform to participate in the culture that defines us Rajah & Tann. Interns can expect to work alongside our lawyers as they attend court proceedings and meetings, be involved in transactions and assist in tasks such as research and the preparation of legal documents.
Our programme is also a means for us to get to know each other and understand your perspectives and aspirations. If you are considering a permanent position with us, our lawyers are always on the lookout for aspirants who would make solid additions to our teams.
We hope to achieve a lot during your time with us and each placement will run for a period of four weeks.
For 2023, our internship programmes will be conducted from:
- From 8 May to 1 June 2023
- From 3 July to 28 July 2023 and
- From 7 August to 1 September 2023
In addition to the above 4-week structured internship programmes, we also accept applications for internships outside of these periods on an ad hoc basis.
Law undergraduate and postgraduate interns will be entitled to receive an honorarium during their period of internship with us.
The practice of law is multi-faceted. That is why our firm has several teams, each with their own specialised skills and unique personalities. You may apply for a placement with any of the following practice groups:
Disputes
- Commercial Dispute Resolution
(includes the sub-practice groups of Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Appeals & Issues, and Fraud, Asset Recovery & Investigations) - Family, Probate & Trusts
- Intellectual Property, Sports & Gaming
- International Arbitration and Construction & Projects
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Shipping & International Trade
- White Collar Crime
Corporate
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets
- Competition & Antitrust and Trade
- Corporate Commercial
- Corporate Real Estate
- Corporate Shipping & Finance
- Financial Institutions
- Funds and Investment Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Projects, Infrastructure, Energy & Resources
- Tax & Private Client
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
We hope to meet as many applicants as we can. However, as spaces are limited, we will prioritise students who are in their second year and above, and who are able to commit to the full four-week programme.
Do share a bit about yourself when you apply. Your application should be accompanied with the following information and documents:
- Application Documents comprising:
- A 1-page cover letter setting out your (i) preferred area(s) of practice, and (ii) how you intend to contribute to Rajah & Tann Asia.
- A CV of no more than 3 pages, setting out your (i) contact details, (ii) academic record and achievements, (iii) extra-curricular activities and achievements, and (iv) prior work experience.
- A copy of your law school transcripts if they are available. If they are not available, please include your grades and subjects taken in your CV.
If you are ready to apply, click here!
We will let you know of the outcome of your application by the middle of February 2023.
It’s NOT All Work and No Play
We believe in working and playing hard and seek to encourage a balanced lifestyle. That is why we were the first major law firm to introduce a flexible dress code. It is also why we were the first firm to have a dedicated in-house café and lounge area, more affectionately known to our lawyers and staff as The Courtyard.
The typical day at Rajah & Tann starts with breakfast served at The Courtyard. Everyone, from the Managing Partner to our newest trainee, can feel at home at The Courtyard, sipping their morning cuppa or tucking into their morning sustenance.
At lunch or in the evenings after work, those of us with energy to spare battle it out on the foosball table. It’s a great way to bond or, simply to blow off some steam after a hard day’s work.
Because we understand the importance of building strong interpersonal relationships, we organise social activities for our trainees and lawyers in informal settings. It is one of our traditions that at such functions, roles are reversed occasionally and trainees become the organisers for some of our annual bashes. Again, we believe that this is a great way for our trainees to feel at home with us and vice versa
We would love to hear from you. Please do contact us if you have any further questions about careers with Rajah & Tann.
