CHOU Sean Yu

Chou Sean Yu is the Managing Partner of WongPartnership and Head of the Firm's Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group, specialising in arbitration and mediation, banking and finance disputes, and corporate fraud and asset recovery. He is also Head of the Banking & Financial Disputes Practice and a Partner in the International Arbitration, Financial Services Regulatory, and Malaysia Practices.

Sean Yu's main practice areas include banking and trade finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, corporate fraud, investigations and asset recovery, financial services regulatory, commercial and corporate disputes, shareholder litigation, tort and contractual claims, and domestic and international arbitration. He frequently sits as an arbitrator and is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the SIAC, the Asian International Arbitration Centre, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, the Maldives International Arbitration Centre, the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, the Hainan International Arbitration Court, and the Russian Arbitration Center. A Chartered Arbitrator of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a former Chairman of the Board of its Singapore Branch, Sean Yu is also a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore and is appointed to the Specialist Mediator Panel of the Singapore International Mediation Centre.

Sean Yu holds an LL.B. (Hons) with First Class Honours from the University of Bristol and is a Barrister-at-Law of Middle Temple. He is admitted to the English Bar and the Singapore Bar. He served as a Justices' Law Clerk with the Singapore Supreme Court before entering private practice.