Wai Yue specialises in shipping, trade, commodities and insurance law. He regularly advises clients on sale of goods disputes, issues arising from charterparties/ contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, contracts for port services, unsafe port and cargo claims, and ship building/ship sale & purchase disputes. He also acts for parties involved in marine casualties.
Qualified to practise law in Singapore, England & Wales and Hong Kong, Wai Yue also has extensive experience in institutional and ad hoc international arbitrations in Singapore, London and Hong Kong. Aside from his local practice, he has worked in the Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong offices of top tier international law firms.
Wai Yue is counsel of choice for many international commodities traders, shipowners and their insurers whom he also assists with issues relating to coverage and subrogated recoveries.
Wai Yue is ranked in various legal directories and is noted for being ‘brilliant in the way he deals with complexities’, the lawyer who ‘understands the business practices and operations’, and a ‘strategist who can come up with detailed solutions’.
In 2021, Wai Yue made it onto the China Business Law Journal’s The A-List 2021, a list which honours the top 100 elite lawyers (foreign firms) in China, and now maintains his strong Chinese practice from Singapore.
Wai Yue is concurrently the Senior International Consultant of Dowway & Partners, a Chinese law firm headquartered in Beijing which has multiple offices across China.