YYC Legal LLP

Corporate Finance, Corporate and Commercial, Fund and Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Wealth, Succession Planning and Trusts, Wills and Probate

Managing Partner

Victor has decades of legal experience focused on corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisitions, securities and public listings and private wealth areas. He has acted for clients in many large cross border M&A transactions in the hospitality, media, property, food and restaurant businesses and assisted initial public offering of business in the shipping, container manufacturing, logistics, hotels and telecommunication industries.

He was a founding Partner of the Canadian law firm Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson, the first Canadian law firm approved by the China Ministry of Justice in 1992 to be licensed as a foreign law firm in China, and was the Chief Representative of the firm's representative office in Shanghai. Prior to establishing this law firm, he was until 2017 the Managing Partner of the Hong Kong office of a leading PRC law firm. In 2019, he set up a new Hong Kong law firm which became a member of the global legal network associated with one of the Big Four accounting firms and remained as its Managing Partner until 2023.

Victor had served as a director in many companies listed publicly on stock exchanges in the United States of America, Singapore and Hong Kong. He was the Executive Vice-Chairman and Director Emeritus of TerraLex, a global network of independent law firms. He is presently a Governor of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the President and Director of the Hong Kong Foundation of UBC Limited and a Council Member, Council of Advisor to the Dean of Law, the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Victor is recognised by Global Law Experts as the exclusive Hong Kong “Recommended Attorney” in International Commercial (2024-2025) and is selected as a finalist for the “Managing Partner of the Year” category of ALB Hong Kong Law Awards (2024).

English, Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Cantonese

The Law Society of Hong Kong

The Law Society of England & Wales

The Law Society of British Columbia, Canada

Governor of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce

President and Director of the Hong Kong Foundation of UBC Limited

Council Member, Council of Advisor to the Dean of Law, the University of British Columbia, Canada

Harvard Law School, TerraLex Leadership Education, Executive Leadership Program

University of British Columbia, Canada, JD (Law)

University of British Columbia, Canada, B.Com