Member Profiles

Professional Qualification  Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong SAR  Lawyer of the People's Republic of China  Master of Laws, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law  Master of Laws in Common Law, the City University of Hong Kong  Master of Laws in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution, the City University of Hong Kong  Lecturer in Law, Mainland China  Lecturer in Law, HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Community College  Practice Area  Bob practice both PRC and Hong Kong laws. Prior to establishing Yan Lawyers, he worked for a PRC law firm, an international law firm and a Hong Kong local law firm successively.  Bob has significant and extensive experience in a broad range of PRC — Hong Kong cross-border legal affairs, with particular emphasis on PRC — Hong Kong civil and commercial litigation, international arbitration, corporate legal affairs, commercial matters, cross-border inheritance, trusts, matrimonial cases, immigration and Visa. 

Damien specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration. His day to day practice involves a wide variety of contractual claims, complex cross border debt recovery and damages claims, international trade and sale of goods disputes, shareholders and joint venture disputes, and enforcement of Judgments and Awards in the PRC and in Hong Kong. Damien also has significant experience with ship mortgage enforcement work, and with pursuing claims In Rem on behalf of unsecured parties. The firm is currently advising a venture capital fund in connection with recovery of its investment in corporate bonds by way of enforcement against shipping assets / vessels owned by a financially ailing issuer. Damien's team regularly advices in relation to in team relief applications and when necessary liaises with lawyers in other jurisdictions to achieve a coordinated outcome and to maximise client benefit. The firm's arbitration practice requires Damien to advise in relation to drafting and construction of arbitration references, and enforcement of Awards in the PRC and in Hong Kong. Damien is on the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Panel of Arbitrators and sits as an arbitrator. Laracy & Co. services a diverse range of institutional, corporate, and private clients, both in Hong Kong/ Greater China and globally. In addition to our recognised expertise in the areas of commercial litigation, international arbitration, contentious shipping and intellectual property, the firm also has strengths in the areas of general commercial practice and employment related disputes.

Bán, S. Szabó & Partners is a full service Hungarian law firm, primarily with international clients, their Hungarian subsidiaries and prominent Hungarian companies. Its practice includes M&A and other transactions as well as a well balanced corporate law practice. Its particular areas of expertise include Hungarian and EU competition law, telecommunications, labor, real estate, banking and finance, intellectual property, energy and utilities and complex contract negotiations in major IT procurement projects. The firm has developed a well balanced corporate law practice advising clients in contracts, company and labor law, intellectual property law, litigation and other areas of civil and commercial law. BSP has seven partners and several qualified Hungarian associated lawyers. All of our lawyers are fluent in English. Several of our lawyers work in German, while some of our attorneys speak French as well.

Domain: construction law, FIDIC-contracts, corporate law, law of real property, litigation and arbitration in high value lawsuits, labour law, immigration law; Construction experience and publications Education: Law Faculty of JATE Szeged University, 1983-1988; graduated with summa cum laude, 1988; Juris Doctor, admitted to the bar in 1991, member of the Budapest Bar. Postgraduate course on the “American Legal System” at the University of South Carolina, US 1989; special course on the “Legal system of the European Community” at the University of Trier, Germany, 1991; scholarship at “La Sapienza University”, Rome, Italy, 1989, 1990, 1991; course on “International Business and Financial Law” at the Academy of American and International Law, Dallas, US, 1992; courses in legal Russian, Saint-Petersburg 1984 and 1988. FIDIC-Contracts Seminar (Rome, 2011, Cornerstone Seminars); Honorary professor of Eötvös Loránd University (2019). Other professional activities: Honorary professor at the Law Faculty of ELTE Budapest University; regular member of the Academy of American and International Law of Dallas since 1992; member at the Deutscher Anwaltverein since 1999 (a member of the section of construction law and of the group of international construction law); he has about 70 professional publications. He is a lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology. He takes part in writing studies and giving lectures in connection with EU-law. He is a member at the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw). President of Eastern European Lawyers’ association, EAST LEGAL TEAM EEIG (2008-2012); Languages: fluent in German, Italian, English, Russian, Spanish and Hungarian