Yi-Shun Teoh

Partner

Yi-Shun Teoh's practice focuses on international arbitration, commercial litigation and regulatory investigations and enforcement.

Yi-Shun is recognised in The Legal 500's Arbitration Powerlist: Hong Kong 2023 and Asian Legal Business' (ALB) Hong Kong Rising Stars 2023 as one of the most accomplished young lawyers, with clients commending "Yi-Shun is very experienced and knowledgeable in international arbitration, he is a persuasive advocate, tactically sharp and extremely diligent, he was always ready to help us at all hours" and "superior analytical and drafting skills".

Yi-Shun represents private equity firms, financial institutions, insurers, technology, hospitality, major corporates and high net worth individual clients in complex Hong Kong court litigation proceedings and international arbitrations under the leading institutional rules (including ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, CIETAC and UNCITRAL) seated in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Beijing, Shenzhen and Jakarta.  He has acted in some of the most high-profile and landmark set aside / enforcement cases in the Hong Kong courts over the past decade.

Yi-Shun is a Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience in civil proceedings before the Hong Kong High Court and Court of Final Appeal.  He has extensive experience of applications for interim relief, asset freezing injunctions and emergency arbitrations, and appears as advocate before arbitral tribunals and the Hong Kong courts.

Yi-Shun is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and a member of the Arbitration Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong and the Arbitration and ADR Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Hong Kong.  He is on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) and the South China International Arbitration Centre in Hong Kong (SCIAHK).  Yi-Shun has spoken and published widely on international arbitration, and was a visiting lecturer at the Tsinghua University School of Law in Beijing.

Yi-Shun also represents clients in SFC and HKMA regulatory investigations and enforcement, including before the Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal (SFAT), and cases involving the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) of the Hong Kong Police Force, corporate fraud, professional negligence, market misconduct (including insider dealing and disclosure of false or misleading information), internal control failures, foreign bribery, cyber incident and ransomware.

Yi-Shun is triple-qualified in Hong Kong, England and Wales and New South Wales (Australia).  Prior to joining RPC, he worked at international firms in London, Singapore and Sydney.  Yi-Shun read law at the University of Sydney and clerked for Justice Richard Edmonds of the Federal Court of Australia.