Dexter Yuen

DEXTER YUEN’s practice focuses on cross-border compliance, investigations, and regulatory matters relating to anti-bribery, fraud, crisis management, and corporate governance. Through years of acting for clients in civil fraud matters, he has developed in-depth experience in asset tracing and corporate investigations.

Dexter also has experience representing clients in high-profile regulatory and commercial disputes involving fraud charges, asset tracing and recovery, breaches of contract and/or tortious duties, and breaches of fiduciary duties. 

Dexter is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Dexter’s representative experience includes:

• Acted for a director of a Hong Kong subsidiary of a U.S. publicly traded company in a high-profile white-collar crime case concerning a major infrastructure project for the Hong Kong government, and advised on the whole process from arrest, bail application, and application for permanent stay of proceedings, to the trial and the appeal process.
• Acted for a US company in a high-value asset recovery litigation against multiple defendants and successfully resisted security for costs application pursued by one of the defendants by proving falsification of key commercial documents relied on by such defendant.
• Acted for a Japanese publicly traded company in a large-scale cyber fraud matter, and successfully obtained summary judgment for unjust enrichment and declaration of trust against a recipient of defrauded funds by defeating the defense of change of position and bona fide purchaser for value without notice by reason of foreign illegality.
• Acted for a Hong Kong subsidiary of a Japanese publicly traded company in an ICAC investigation regarding the suspected falsification of corporate documents by an employee.
• Acted for a Croatian company in a large-scale cyber fraud matter and successfully obtained continuation of proprietary injunction against a recipient of defrauded money.

• The Law Society of Hong Kong
• The Solicitors Regulation Authority