Victor Yang

Victor has decades of legal experience in the corporate and commercial, mergers and acquisitions, securities and public listings and private wealth sectors. He has represented on behalf of clients in numerous sizeable cross-border M&A transactions in the hospitality, media, property, food and beverage industries. In addition, he assisted on numerous initial public offerings for businesses in the shipping, container manufacturing, logistics, hotels, and telecommunication industries.

Victor was a founding Partner of the Canadian law firm Boughton Peterson Yang Anderson, the first Canadian law firm approved by the China Ministry of Justice in 1992 to be licensed as a foreign law firm in China, and was the Chief Representative of the firm’s representative office in Shanghai. Prior to establishing this law firm, he was the Managing Partner of the Hong Kong office of a leading PRC law firm until 2017. In 2019, he founded a new Hong Kong law firm which became a member of the global legal network associated with one of the Big Four accounting firms and remained as its Managing Partner until 2023.

He served as a director in numerous publicly traded companies listed on various stock exchanges i.e., Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. He was the Executive Vice-Chairman and Director Emeritus of TerraLex, a global network of independent law firms. He is currently a Governor of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the President and Director of the Hong Kong Foundation of UBC Limited, and a Council Member, Council of Advisor to the Dean of Law, the University of British Columbia, Canada.

The Firm

YYC Legal LLP (formerly known as Yang & Yang Solicitors LLP) is a Hong Kong law firm dedicated to providing comprehensive and efficient legal services to a wide variety of clients including corporations, financial institutions, funds, governmental and official authorities, family offices, individuals, charities and non-profit-making organizations.  With rich experience, extensive professional knowledge, and licenses in multiple jurisdictions, such as USA, Canada, England and Wales, the lawyers of YYC Legal LLP have established a global vision, diversified layout and license in Hong Kong.  A comprehensive law firm with first-class service capabilities. YYC Legal LLP has been in Association with East & Concord Partners (Hong Kong) Law Firm which is the Hong Kong office of a PRC-based law firm, East & Concord Partners.  Our alliance with East & Concord Partners which enables YYC Legal LLP to provide clients with a wide range of legal services in the Greater Bay Area (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong), including 7 other offices (Shanghai, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Nanjing and Xi’an) in mainland China, as well as an office in Vancouver of Canada and help the clients handle complex cross-border matters.

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