CHOU Sean Yu heads the Banking & Insolvency Practice.

Sean Yu's main areas of practice are domestic and international litigation and arbitration work with particular expertise in banking and trade finance disputes, commercial and corporate disputes, insolvency and restructuring, corporate fraud, investigations and asset recovery, shareholder litigation, and tort and contractual claims.

Matters of significance which Sean Yu has been involved in include acting for an international private equity firm in a shareholders dispute arising from a US$260 million leveraged buy-out of a technology company; a Singapore listed company in a minority oppression action concerning a S$80 million electrical products company; the directors of a Singapore listed company relating to regulatory issues arising from a high-profile accounting irregularities scandal; the majority shareholder in a high-profile minority oppression action concerning a S$100 million family company; an Indonesian company in an international arbitration involving a US$10 million contractual dispute; liquidators and creditors in various insolvencies and work-outs in Singapore and the region (including the B$6 billion liquidation of the Amedeo conglomerate of companies in Brunei); a syndicate of international banks concerning the recovery of a US$600 million loan; and an international bank in a documentary credit dispute involving novel points of construction of the UCP 500.

Sean Yu graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Bristol and was admitted to the English Bar (Middle Temple) and to the Singapore Bar. He was a Justices' Law Clerk with the Singapore Supreme Court before entering private practice.

Sean Yu is a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore and a member of INSOL International (the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals). He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Sean Yu was a contributing editor to Singapore Civil Procedure 2007. He was appointed a member of the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law from 1995 to 2006. In this capacity, Sean Yu has been part of numerous law reform initiatives including co-authoring a paper on reforms to the law of restitution on mistakes of law, that was cited in a judgment of the Singapore High Court in Management Corporation Strata Title No 473 v De Beers Jewellery Pte Ltd [2001] SGHC 207.

Sean Yu is recommended as a leading lawyer in IFLR 1000 - The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms 2008. He is also recognised for his restructuring work in the PLC Cross-border Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook 2008.

You can contact Sean Yu at seanyu.chou@wongpartnership.com.sg.

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