YAP YEONG HUI

EXPERIENCE AND CREDENTIALS

Prior to joining Chooi & Company, Yeong Hui was a Partner at another large firm in Malaysia. Before that he practised law in the Singapore office of a global law firm and prior to that he was with one of Singapore’s largest law firms.

Yeong Hui assists companies, local and multinational, as well as individuals in respect of a full range of employment and immigration matters. His experience includes:

• representing clients in unfair dismissal claims, trade disputes and suits relating to restrictive covenants, discrimination, harrassment and fraud and breach of fiduciary duties by employees;
• advising on employment contracts, employee benefits and compensation, employee terminations, reduction of workforce, employee policies, confidentiality duties, post termination obligations, harmonisation of employee benefits and complying with local employment and immigration laws;
• drafting employment contracts, employee policies and employee benefit plans and schemes;
• assisting in workplace investigations; and
• conducting compliance trainings, developing compliance programmes and providing advice on compliance issues for employers, covering areas such as employment regulatory compliance, anti-bribery and anti-trust.

In the field of Maritime and International Trade, Yeong Hui has been involved in arbitrations under the auspices of the KLRCA, SIAC, LMAA and CIETAC among others. Some of his notable experience in this area includes:

• acted for an international bank to pursue a claim pursuant to bills of lading pledged as security for loans granted by the bank; 
• represented ship owners and insurers of a vessel involved in a collision with another vessel in Malaysian waters which led to proceedings in both Singapore and Malaysia;
• assisted in a London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) arbitration in relation to a charter party dispute involving an underperformance and overconsumption of fuel claim;
  
• assisted in the arrest and subsequent sale of vessels for breaches of mortgages granted in favour of the owners of the vessels; and
• acted for a Malaysian national commodities company in a complex claim under the KLRCA Fast Track Arbitration Rules for defective goods supplied by a foreign supplier.

Yeong Hui was named as a Dispute Resolution Star by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2018 to 2024.  In 2021, Yeong Hui was named as “Up and Coming” Individual by Chambers Asia Pacific.

He is a contributor to several practitioner guides, including the Admiralty chapter of the Reissue of Halsbury’s Laws of Malaysia, Vol 1(1). Yeong Hui also speaks regularly at local and foreign legal conferences including the recent 2024 Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)’s Annual Conference in Tokyo and The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) Employment Law Conference 2023.