Jason Yu

Career

Jason maintains a broad practice with a particular focus on commercial, company, insolvency and intellectual property litigation. He is also regularly instructed to act as counsel in arbitrations and related court applications.

Jason is an experienced advocate in his own right, including in trials, appeals and arbitration hearings. He has been instructed to act as main advocate in a range of disputes, representing hedge funds, global investment banks and high-profile celebrities. Recently, he acted as sole advocate for an ad hoc group of noteholders in a Country Garden restructuring hearing.

He has also been led as a junior in notable high value cases, such as the Hang Seng Bank privatization, the China Evergrande liquidation, the Bank of East Asia litigation, the China Metal Recycling litigation, the China Forestry litigation, the Nan Fung probate litigation, the Convoy Global litigation, the China Shanshui litigation and the Ablyazov litigation.

Jason is often involved in cases with a cross-border or conflict of laws element. Of particular note is the Court of Final Appeal case of Ryder v Timely, where Lord Collins NPJ delivered one of the leading judgments in the common law on foreign illegality.

He is ranked as a Band 1 Junior by Chambers & Partners (Greater China) in 2026 and is recognized for his “very strong commercial awareness and excellent drafting and oral advocacy“. Previous editions of Chambers & Partners described Jason as “a complete star at his level” and “a leading, outstanding junior member of the Hong Kong Bar”, noted for his “talent and extensive experience”, “very powerful advocacy” and “really unrivalled knowledge of the law“. Who’s Who Legal (now Lexology Index) also highlighted “his superb litigation practice and strong expertise in company law, insolvency and IP”.

Prior to joining the Bar, Jason graduated from the University of Oxford in 2009 with First Class Honours, ranking first in his class in Contract Law and ninth overall. In 2011, he obtained a Distinction in his BCL degree at Oxford and was awarded the Bar Scholarship.