Jasamine Yung
Senior Associate
Jasamine Yung is a Senior Associate in the Disputes & Restructuring team in Hong Kong.
Jasamine’s her practice focuses on a wide range of contentious matters, with a particular focus on contentious insolvency and restructuring, shareholders’ disputes, funds disputes and commercial litigation.
Jasamine has extensive experience acting for listed companies, investment funds, liquidators, creditors and high-net-worth individuals in complex cross-border proceedings, including light-touch provisional liquidations, winding up petitions, derivative actions and contractual disputes across Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Prior to joining Conyers, Jasamine practised at a US law firm in Hong Kong, where she handled a broad range of commercial litigation, international arbitration, fraud, internal investigations, regulatory and competition matters.
Jurisdictions
Experience
- Acted as Cayman counsel for HyalRoute Communication Group Limited, a regional telecommunications infrastructure operator, in successfully opposing a USD 26 million winding-up petition presented by PRC state-owned insurer China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation based on alleged subrogated rights. The Grand Court dismissed the petition, finding bona fide disputes on substantial grounds as to the characterisation of the insurance under PRC law and the petitioner’s entitlement to exercise rights of subrogation against a guarantor (China Export & Credit Insurance Corp v Hyalroute Communication Group Ltd (No. 2) [2026] CIGC (FSD) 37)
Prior to joining Conyers, Jasamine has:
- Acted for the Hong Kong Competition Commission in the first ever bid-rigging case filed under the Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619).
- Acted for a global retailer in an arbitration against its franchisee for breach of contract.
- Acted for a Canadian oil and gas development company in a US$1.8 billion arbitration against a major Chinese oil company on disputes arising from a coal-bed methane (CBM) and shale gas production sharing contract.
- Acted for the Special Investigation Committee of a Hong Kong-listed company in an investigation into the irregularities of the company’s shares.
- Acted for individuals on Securities and Futures Commission’s notices and requests for information/interviews in relation to contravention of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) and the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions) Ordinance (Cap. 615).
- Acted for a global e-commerce company in an investigation by the Hong Kong Customs & Excise Department in relation to the sale of alleged counterfeit goods.
- Acted for a minority shareholder of a Hong Kong subsidiary of a Taiwanese company in an unfair prejudice action against the majority shareholder.
- Acted for a high net-worth individual in proceedings in several jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, the United States, and the British Virgin Islands, involving contentious probate action, an application for provision under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependents) Ordinance, and various trust litigations.
Qualifications
Professional Background
- Associate, Winston & Strawn, Hong Kong
Education
- Chinese University of Hong Kong, PCLL, 2013
- King’s College, London, LLB, 2012
Associations
- Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong
Bar Admissions
- British Virgin Islands, Solicitor, 2021
- Bermuda, Registered Associate, 2021
- England and Wales, Solicitor, 2021 (not currently practising)
- Ontario, Barrister and Solicitor, 2021 (not currently practising)
- Hong Kong, Solicitor, 2016 (not currently practising)
Languages
- Cantonese
- English
- Mandarin