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Edith Au-Yeung is a family law specialist with over 13 years of experience advising clients on domestic and international divorce, financial settlements, asset tracing, children’s arrangements and nuptial agreements. She also advises on contentious and non-contentious matrimonial matters with trust and asset-protection considerations.
Edith began her career as a trainee at a leading boutique matrimonial law firm in Hong Kong and progressed to become a partner over time. Prior to joining Eric Chow & Co., Edith volunteered in Mongolia on a pro bono trip focused on children's welfare and helping vulnerable minors.
Having practised family law for more than a decade and gained global perspective through her professional hiatus, Edith approaches each matrimonial case with calmness, empathy, and a bespoke strategy. She guides clients in reconciling the past and planning for the future with clarity.
Edith also works closely with international lawyers in Hong Kong, Mainland China and other key jurisdictions as well as with trustees, forensic accountants, valuation experts, professional investigators, child psychologists and therapists.
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High-Net-Worth Divorces
• Acted as lead matrimonial lawyer in a complex ultra-high-net-worth asset-division case involving intricate cross-border assets and offshore trusts relating to a technology business.
• Acted for a spouse in the division of assets relating to a ultra-high-net-worth scientific research-driven enterprise. Achieved a clean break settlement that protected the spouse’s shareholding and prevented hostile or destabilizing claims against the business.
• Acted for the spouse of a prominent, multigenerational family in a financially complex divorce involving the intervention of numerous extended family members. The matter required the resolution of overlapping trust, loan, and ownership claims alongside matrimonial issues.
• Acted as adviser in an ultra-high-value matter involving substantial inherited wealth, in which controlling interests were held through a Hong Kong listed investment vehicle and layered offshore holding companies, with part of the founder’s stake placed in an irrevocable trust for generational wealth planning.
• Acted for a shareholder in a specialized consumer business in divorce proceedings that ran parallel to a hostile shareholder buyout dispute, requiring a coordinated strategy across matrimonial and corporate proceedings.
• Represented families whose wealth included extensive international collections of fine art, antiques, jewellery, classic and luxury automobiles, and rare historical memorabilia. Advised on issues of provenance, valuation, ownership tracing, and equitable division in matrimonial proceedings.
• Acted for families with high-earning individuals, including executives, partners, and entrepreneurs, whose renumeration included substantial salaries, performance bonuses, stock options, profit sharing arrangements and other forms of variable and deferred compensation.
Third Party Interests
• Acted for a husband in a beneficial ownership dispute involving a residential property and interests in two companies, in which the husband’s father asserted beneficial interests. Also advised on the procedural consequences of third-party interests, including joinder and intervention. The matter ultimately led to the Court of Appeal’s guidance on family litigation and mediation.
• Acted in complex ancillary relief proceedings involving third-party interests asserted by in-laws, family members, and privately held family companies. Advised on disputes where assets connected with the marriage – including real property, shares in family-owned companies, investment accounts, and joint bank accounts – were registered in the names of spouses and their relatives, while the parties disagreed as to the underlying beneficial ownership.
Financial Disclosure and Asset Tracing
• Acted in divorce cases involving significant cryptocurrency holdings, advising on full disclosure, forensic tracing of hidden digital assets, valuation of volatile holdings and structured asset division to minimize enforcement risks.
• Acted in matters involving applications for, and challenges to, financial disclosure, including disclosure sought from third parties, banks, companies, trustees and relevant financial institutions.
• Obtained emergency worldwide injunctive relief to restrain a spouse who was found to be dissipating assets with the intention of defeating the other party’s ancillary relief claim.
Forum Non Conveniens
• Acted in various cross-border matrimonial disputes involving competing jurisdictional claims and parallel divorce, financial, and children proceedings across Hong Kong, Mainland China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Dubai, Brazil and other international jurisdictions.
Financial Arrangements for Children born to Unmarried Parents
• Assisted with applications under the Guardianship of Minors Ordinance for periodical child maintenance, lump sum payments for immediate or exceptional needs, and financial provision for housing, education, medical and other reasonable expenses.
Relocation
• Advised on child-relocation disputes involving proposed moves overseas. Acted for parents seeking permission to relocate and assisted clients with preparing relocation proposals, contact schedules, holiday arrangements, return undertakings and mirror orders.
• Acted for parents opposing relocation and advised on issues concerning child’s welfare, education, living arrangements, relationship with each parent and the impact of the proposed move on the child.
• Advised on international child abduction and Hague Convention proceedings involving unlawful removal of children from Hong Kong. Represented parents seeking urgent measures for the return of children to Hong Kong.
Domestic Violence
• Assisted spouses, former spouses, cohabitants, and former cohabitants with domestic violence injunctions, urgent protective orders, and cases involving allegations of abuse and child-protection concerns.
• City University of Hong Kong, PCLL, 2009
• City University of Hong Kong, LLB, 2008 (Dean’s List)
Solicitor, Hong Kong SAR
English, Cantonese and Mandarin