Yeeling Wan

A twenty-year veteran commercial litigator, Yeeling is KEMP’s pragmatist-in-chief. She approaches each case with her focus squarely on her clients’ business objectives and the real value her expertise can add. 

Clients value her straight-shooting guidance and trust her to fight determinedly for the right resolution. 

Commercial litigation chose Yeeling, rather than the other way around: it was a fit for her assertive, tenacious style, and propelled her to partnership in a Big Law environment at a young age. That fast-track success gave her a thorough technical grounding – and also a desire to practise in the setting most conducive to doing her best work. 

KEMP is that setting: a firm of friends who bring heavyweight expertise to helping power their clients’ success, and who cultivate a nimble, flexible and mutually supportive environment in which to do it. 

M.B. KEMP LLP (Partner)
September 2020 - present

Stephenson Harwood (Partner)
May 2019 - August 2020

Stephenson Harwood (Consultant/Partner)
June 2009 - April 2019

Stephenson Harwood (Solicitor)
September 2000 - May 2009

Legal Practice Course
Nottingham Law School 1996-7
Diploma in Legal Practice with Commendation

LLB
University of Leicester 1993-6
England and Wales admission: 2001
Hong Kong admission: 2000

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Commercial litigation 

Acting for claimants over properties in Hong Kong and New York valued in excess of US$20 million. Successfully obtained an injunction order over a valuable property situated in Hong Kong to restrain the property being dealt with pending the trust claims being resolved. Worked with offshore law firm resulting in the successful transfer of the New York property to the client.

Acting for a government on its asset tracing efforts in relation to funds misappropriated by various government officials (and their family members and associates). Liaised extensively with the Department of Justice. The value of assets in excess of HK$300 million was successfully traced and restrained. 

Employment 

Advising Court-appointed Receivers in relation to a global alternative investments firm and multi-jurisdictional disputes resulting from in-fighting between the shareholders and others. Defending claims made in Hong Kong which are valued in excess of USD10 million as well as handling other employee issues, specifically extensive data access requests, and terminations. Leading a team move project for a private bank hiring from a competitor in Hong Kong and Singapore. Providing strategy guidance and managing outside law firms advising individual employees.

Restructuring & Insolvency 

Acting for Liquidators of a group of companies in pursuing fraudulent trading and misfeasance claims against company officers as well as professional negligence claims against the former auditors. Former officers of the group were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment on nine counts of charges for defrauding a number of banks. Their fraudulent act has led to the insolvency of the group. The various pieces of ongoing litigation are currently being funded by a litigation funder.