Sim Mong Teck & Partners (SMTP) is a Singapore private client law firm founded in 1994, focused on legal matters that intersect with long-term personal, family and commercial interests. The firm positions itself as a trusted adviser for discerning private clients, with a stated mission built on clarity, foresight and purpose, guiding individuals and families through pivotal decisions and helping safeguard continuity across generations.
SMTP's practice spans four core areas: Immigration, Family Office & Corporate Secretarial Services, Real Estate & Conveyancing, and Family Legacy Planning. The firm's Family Office team advises on establishing single family offices — including under the Global Investor Programme — and on applying for relevant tax incentive schemes under Sections 13O, 13U and 13D of the Income Tax Act, while its Corporate Secretarial Services team handles company incorporation, statutory filings, ACRA compliance, CRS/FATCA registration and reporting, bookkeeping, payroll, CPF and IRAS tax compliance.
SMTP is a member of TAGLaw, a worldwide alliance of independent law firms founded in 1998 with 290 member firms across more than 110 countries, recognised as an Elite Law Firm Network by Chambers Global 2025. The firm operates from a main office at Paragon Tower on Orchard Road and a branch office at Shaw House, also on Orchard Road.
Since 1994, Sim Mong Teck & Partners (SMTP) has built its practice around a specific kind of legal work: matters where decisions carry long-term personal, family and commercial weight. Rather than positioning itself as a general practice, SMTP focuses squarely on private client law — advising individuals and families where discretion and judgment matter as much as legal knowledge.
SMTP's work is organised into Immigration, Family Office & Corporate Secretarial Services, Real Estate & Conveyancing, and Family Legacy Planning. Each area is described as delivered with precision, discretion and care — language that reflects the firm's private-client focus rather than transactional, high-volume legal work.
One of SMTP's more specialised areas is advising on the establishment of single family offices, including structures set up under the Global Investor Programme's Option C route to Permanent Residency. The firm has advised on applications for, and ongoing compliance with, tax exemption schemes under Sections 13O, 13U and 13D of the Income Tax Act — technical territory that requires close familiarity with Singapore's evolving family office regulatory landscape. Beyond initial setup, SMTP also provides ongoing legal and administrative support for family office operations, covering governance and reporting obligations that continue long after a structure is first established.
SMTP's Corporate Secretarial Services team handles the operational side of running a company or family office in Singapore: incorporation, statutory filings, and ongoing ACRA compliance. A separate Annual Maintenance function covers CRS/FATCA registration, reporting and annual filing, along with bookkeeping services including payroll and CPF, preparation of financial statements, and IRAS corporate and personal tax compliance. Together, these services give private clients and their family offices a single point of contact for both legal structuring and the recurring administrative obligations that come with it.
SMTP's Family Legacy Planning practice covers wealth, philanthropy and succession planning through asset holding vehicles, including advice on setting up trusts and donor-advised funds, as well as intergenerational wealth transfer. Combined with the firm's immigration advisory work — covering cross-border residency planning for principals and their family members — this gives SMTP a fairly complete offering for high-net-worth families managing complexity across jurisdictions.
SMTP is a member of TAGLaw, a worldwide alliance of independent law firms founded in 1998. The network spans 290 member firms across more than 110 countries, with 380 offices and over 20,000 lawyers collectively, and has been recognised as an Elite Law Firm Network by Chambers Global 2025. TAGLaw members are selected based on reputation, track record and recommendations from existing members — giving SMTP clients access to vetted legal expertise beyond Singapore when cross-border matters arise.
SMTP operates from a main office at Paragon Tower 1 on Orchard Road, and a branch office at Shaw House, also on Orchard Road — placing the firm within Singapore's central business and shopping district. The firm publishes regular articles on private client topics, including recent pieces on advance care planning, succession planning from a single family office perspective, and practical property matters like recovering from a lost title deed before a sale completes.
For individuals and families navigating immigration, family office structuring, property transactions or legacy planning in Singapore, SMTP offers a specialised, discretion-first alternative to a general commercial law firm.