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Denis Chang’s Chambers Offices
9th Floor, One Lippo Centre
89 Queensway
Admiralty
Hong Kong
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Richard Yip
Career
Richard’s broad civil practice has a focus on companies practice, commercial litigation, financial regulation and competition law. He is noted for his experience in shareholder disputes and matters involving breach of directors’ duties.
Richard also has a thriving practice in cross border commercial arbitration, having acted as Counsel for both claimants and respondents in arbitrations seated in and outside Hong Kong. In particular, Richard has ample experience in arbitrations administered by the HKIAC, and is very familiar with its emergency arbitrator procedure and expedited procedure.
Prior to joining Denis Chang’s Chambers in 2011, Richard was a corporate finance solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Richard is actively involved in the community and academia. He is a part time lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.
Memberships
Election Committee of the Chief Executive of HKSAR, Legal Subsector
Part-time Lecturer (Constitutional Law), Department of Law, University of Hong Kong
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law, King’s College London (2016)
PCLL, University of Hong Kong (2005)
LLB, University of Hong Kong (2004)
St Paul’s Co-Educational College
Lawyer Rankings
Hong Kong Bar > Commercial disputes
(Leading Juniors)Richard Yip – Denis Chang’s Chambers ‘Richard is solid in legal knowledge and advocacy. He has courage to put forward the case of his client, but at the same time, he is not pushy.’
Denis Chang’s Chambers is ‘one of the strongest chambers in Hong Kong’ and it ‘houses many great commercial litigators’. Head of chambers Denis Chang SC has a notable record of high-profile and complex commercial disputes, and he continues to act in the case of Xu Ying v China Gas Co, which concerns the inter-relationship between contractual rights and duties and different economic torts and directors’ duties. Simon Wong is a reputable senior junior who frequently handles high-value shareholder, banking, and contractual disputes with cross-border elements, while Richard Yip specialises in commercial litigation, with particular expertise in disputes concerning listed companies. Yip acted in the case of ZS Capital Fund SPC & Ors v Astor Asset Management and Zundiao Securities Limited, which concerned an injunction following the defendants’ alleged selling of pledged shares on the market without the required authorisation from the plaintiffs.