Virtus Law LLP

Yi Lei is a senior associate at Virtus Law. His practice area is in litigation and dispute resolution and he has assisted in a wide range of commercial disputes.

Yi Lei assists clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes before the Singapore Courts, arbitrations as well as out-of-court proceedings such as mediation. He has a strong focus in insolvency and restructuring matters, assisting both companies in distress as well as creditors seeking to maximise their recovery. Most recently, Yi Lei has been assisting in cryptocurrency-related disputes which often bear an international element.

Yi Lei has assisted in handling a wide range of contentious matters, including international trade fraud actions, defamation actions and cryptocurrency-related disputes. These matters are often international in nature, and Yi Lei has assisted his clients to manage litigations, and pre-litigation work in Dubai, Holland and USA.

Yi Lei is also regularly involved in insolvency and restructuring matters, assisting in the first application for a scheme of arrangement moratorium by a foreign company under the 2017 Companies Act amendments (which resulted in the first reported judgment on the requirements of a scheme of arrangement). Yi Lei also assists major secured lenders to recover assets from the restructuring of various large corporations such as the Bourbon Corporation, the Hin Leong Trading group and Agritrade International. Yi Lei further successfully assisted liquidators and bankruptcy trustees in Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China to obtain recognition orders from the Singapore Courts to assist the respective liquidations / bankruptcies.

He has acted for and assisted in a number of cryptocurrency related matters, including successfully obtaining judgments and arbitration awards in relation to SAFT disputes, winding up a counterparty in a SAFT dispute, and acting in relation to coin issuance and cryptocurrency fund management disputes.