Personal bio
CHOU Sean Yu is the Deputy Managing Partner of WongPartnership LLP, Singapore, and heads the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. He is also the 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 as counsel are in banking & trade finance disputes, insolvency & restructuring, corporate fraud, investigations & asset recovery, financial services regulatory, commercial & corporate disputes, shareholder litigation, tort & contractual claims and domestic & international arbitration.
Sean Yu frequently sits as an arbitrator. He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, 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, the Borneo International Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, and the Russian Arbitration Center at the Russian Institute of Modern Arbitration. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and was a past Chairman of the Board of the Singapore Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a member of the LCIA Court.