Haldanes, Solicitors and Notaries

Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Partner

With more than 13 years of experience as a civil litigator, Yu Kew provides professional advice and representation to both local and overseas clients, including listed and multi-national companies and their directors and various professional clients, with a primary focus on commercial litigation including complex commercial claims, shareholders’ disputes and matters requiring urgent applications for injunctive relief.

Yu Kew has also handled a diverse range of work involving fraud claims, property, tenancy, and building management disputes, personal injuries claims, bankruptcy and company winding-up proceedings, judicial review applications, professional disciplinary proceedings, probate disputes as well as some criminal matters, and non-contentious probate applications.

His recent notable experience includes a very substantial breach of contract claim involving parallel proceedings in Hong Kong and Mainland China, an appeal of great public importance to the Court of Appeal against a judicial review on the constitutionality of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance, and a complex shareholders’ dispute involving four companies and six separate sets of proceedings in the High Court.

In addition, Yu Kew practices as a Notary Public and regularly assists clients with the notarisation, authentication and legalisation of documents for use in various overseas jurisdictions.

English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Bachelor of Science, Imperial College, London (Major in Biochemistry and Management) Postgraduate Diploma of Law, College of Law, London Postgraduate Diploma of Legal Practice, College of Law, London Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, University of Hong Kong