Woon Yu Jian
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yujianwoon@wyjchambers.com
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
Chambers of Woon Yu Jian
ADMISSIONS
- Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya (2025)
- Barrister-at-Law (Gray’s Inn), England and Wales (2024)
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Civil Fraud
- Corporate Restructuring
- International Arbitration & Related Court Applications
Career
• Advocate
Nov 2025 – present
Gopal Sreenevasan (part of Endeavour Group Law Practice)
• Pupil-in-Chambers
Nov 2024 – Oct 2025
Selected Experience
Corporate Litigation
- Assisted in a winding-up petition against a prominent holding company under s.465(1)(h) of the Companies Act 2016.
- Assisted in successfully resisting a shareholders’ injunction application seeking to restrain the issuance of Employee Share Option Scheme shares pending an EGM.
Commercial Litigation
- Assisted in a Federal Court appeal arising from a complex trespass action, which raised novel questions on pre-judgment interest and continuing causes of action.
- Assisted in an appeal before the Court of Appeal, acting for the Plaintiff/Respondent in a dispute concerning the wrongful termination of an ICT system agreement.
Civil Fraud
- RHB Trustees Bhd (Suing as Trustee of the Linggiu Valley Orang Asli (Jakuns) Trust) v Folks Corporate Services Sdn Bhd & Anor [2025] MLJU 285 (assisted Gopal Sreenevasan as a pupil)
Corporate Restructuring
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Sapura Energy Bhd & Ors v CIMB Bank Bhd & Ors [2025] MLJU 2985 (assisted Gopal Sreenevasan as a pupil)
International Arbitration & Related Court Applications
- Confidential AIAC Arbitration – Acted as an arbitrator assistant in an international arbitration concerning a dispute arising out of a project management services agreement for the construction of a supermarket.
- Assisted in resisting a stay application under s.10 of the Arbitration Act 2005, contending that oppression claims under s.346 of the Companies Act 2016 were squarely within the court’s jurisdiction.
Publications
- ‘EU’s regime to reinvent the world of international investment law’, Cambridge International Law Journal (Online) (9 August 2018)
- ‘Achieving Bingham’s Notion in Environmental Protection and Preservation’, HELP Student Law Journal (2018) (p.11-20) (Published by the Department of Law, HELP University)
- ‘The illusive endgame: Enforcement of judgments post-Brexit’, King’s Student Law Review Commercial & Financial Law Blog (24 January 2020)
- Contributor / National Reporter, ‘Overriding Mandatory Provisions in the Autonomous Private International Law of the EU Member States – General Report’, ELTE Law Journal 2020/21 (p.9-35)
Awards
- Outstanding Performance for the University of London LL.B. Scholarship Award & Scholarship Award for the Certificate in Legal Practice
- Outstanding Performance for the University of London LL.B. Intermediate Examinations Scholarship Award (Top 20 within the cohort)
- Shearn Delamore & Co Book Prize for European Union Law (Joint First in Year)
- 25th Tun Hamid Omar Moot Competition, 1st Runner up
Education
- Barrister Training Course, Distinction (Distinction in all Modules), BPP University
- Master of Legal Studies (specialising in investor-state arbitration), University Malaya
- LL.B. (Hons), Second Class Honours (Upper Division), University of London
- Certificate in International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Languages
- English
- Chinese
- Malay
Yu Jian is a newly qualified advocate, specialising in corporate and commercial litigation. He completed his pupillage under Gopal Sreenevasan, during which he gained substantial exposure to high-profile and complex corporate and commercial disputes. He also maintains a keen interest in international arbitration, with a particular focus on investor-state disputes.
He has been instructed by, and works regularly with, legal practitioners and law firms in other jurisdictions, including Singapore and Hong Kong. Prior to qualifying, he undertook mini-pupillages at leading commercial and chancery sets in London, notably 3 Verulam Buildings, Quadrant Chambers, Serle Court, and Keating Chambers.
