Vicky Yap

Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution 

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Vicky Yap

Contact

Email: vickyyap@leenlee.com

Phone: +65 65574624

Expertise

  • Family Law

  • Wills

  • Probate and Administration

Education & Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of Warwick, United Kingdom

  • Barrister-At-Law, Inner Temple, United Kingdom (1995)

  • Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore (1996)

About Vicky

Vicky Yap is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department at Lee & Lee.

Vicky joined Lee & Lee as a pupil in 1995 and has over two decades of experience dealing with family and private client work concerning wills, estates, trusts, probate and administration in both contentious and non-contentious settings.

Her work includes:

  • Advising high net worth clients on succession planning and drafting wills

  • Advising on inter-vivos and testamentary trusts

  • Acting for local and overseas clients and institutions in applications for grants of probate and letters of administration

  • Advising trustees and administrators on their duties

  • Advising on Lasting Power of Attorney applications and court applications for deputyships under the Mental Capacity Act (2008)

  • Litigating contentious estate matters

Vicky has served on the Probate Practice and Succession Planning Committee of the Law Society of Singapore and has been a lecturer and a subject co-ordinator of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education’s course on Wills, Probate & Administration (Part B Singapore Bar Examinations)

Memberships & Directorships

  • Member, Law Society of Singapore

  • Member, Singapore Academy of Law