Yvonne Chu

Yvonne Chu became a partner in Hassans’ Financial Services and Banking Team in July 2005. Yvonne commenced her practice at Hassans in commercial litigation in 1993, she then joined the Financial Services and Banking Team in 2000, specialising in corporate banking,  structured finance, funds, insurance and insurance distribution.  Yvonne became the Head of Insurance in 2023.

Yvonne is an experienced financial services lawyer, having been in practice for over 30 years. She has led on mergers and acquisitions transactions involving insurance companies and advises on licensing, regulatory and legal requirements of these companies and other regulated sectors of financial services in Gibraltar. She frequently advises insurance companies and insurance intermediaries on their regulatory responsibilities and requirements.

Yvonne is also one of the early pioneers of the experienced investor funds. Having advised on the establishment of various experienced investors funds, she is knowledgeable on the legal and regulatory requirements in respect of alternative investment funds, and/or collective investments schemes established or distributed on cross border basis.

She has extensive legal experience in corporate lending transactions and has developed significant experience in all related aspects of banking and finance, having advised on secured and unsecured syndicated loans, international securities offerings and structured capital market transactions, including repackaging and securitisation for major financial institutions. She frequently advises on cross border collective investment schemes and securities offerings and is familiar with capital market work, having frequently been instructed to advise financial institutions, including prime brokers on the enforceability of derivative transactions documented under ISDA, FOA and GMSLA Master Agreements and the applicability of netting and set-off provisions of these agreements under Gibraltar law.

Yvonne is the partner responsible for shipping finance and advises regularly on maritime related security transactions.

She is also a board member of two regulated insurance companies and have recently been appointed the Chairperson for both. Being a regulated individual, she is aware of her regulatory responsibilities and that of the firms that she serves as an independent non-executive director. She is the appointed General Representative for Lloyds of London for Gibraltar.