Singapore · Corporate & Commercial Counsel
Crux Law Chambers is a Singapore corporate and commercial practice. We act on the transactions and decisions that determine outcomes — prepared thoroughly, drafted precisely, and resolved without the padding.
What we do
From formation to exit, we advise founders, companies and investors on the matters where structure and execution carry the most weight.
Day-to-day counsel across the company's life cycle — formation, contracts, governance and ongoing commercial arrangements.
Buy- and sell-side transactions, share and asset deals, due diligence, transaction documents and completion.
Convertible instruments, secured lending, share subscriptions and bespoke financing structures, drafted to hold.
Shareholders' agreements, constitutions, transfer and pre-emption mechanics, and joint-venture governance.
Executive contracts, policies, exits, settlements and the sensitive matters that sit between them.
Protection, licensing and commercialisation of the IP assets that give a business its edge.
The name
The crux — the single point everything turns on. In law, it is the issue on which a matter is won or lost.
We named the firm for this focal point - the crux. The work that matters is rarely spread evenly across a transaction; it concentrates at a few decisive points. Our job is to find those points early, prepare for them properly, and see clients through them.
Crux Law Chambers is a boutique practice built for that approach — close partner attention, complete and execution-ready drafting, and advice that flags the hard issues rather than glossing over them. YU Kanghao, Managing Director, leads the firm.
How we work
We do the work before it is needed, so the hard points are anticipated rather than discovered late.
Complete, execution-ready drafts with the issues flagged — sourced reasoning, not assertions.
Clear advice and clear communication. We tell you where the risk sits and what we recommend.
Our people
A boutique practice means the lawyers you meet are the ones who do the work — senior, hands-on, and accountable from first call to completion.
YU Kanghao
Managing Director
YU Kanghao is a corporate and commercial lawyer with ten years of experience in commercial disputes, corporate insolvency and restructuring, general corporate and corporate fundraising matters. He spent eight years in one of the “Big 4” Singapore law firms, representing clients on multiple high-value matters, including a US$200 million cross-border matter. Kanghao also has experience as in-house counsel, having worked in-house for a tier-1 consulting firm.
HONG Chong Yi
Corporate & Finance Counsel
HONG Chong Yi is a corporate and transactional specialist, with fifteen years of experience in general banking, maritime finance, project finance and aviation finance. He acts as trusted legal advisor across a wide range of industries and sectors, including Shipping and Aviation, MedTech, Commodities, E-Commerce, Private Credit, FinTech, Venture Capital and Private Equity.
Chong Yi regularly advises state-owned enterprises, international financial institutions and corporations, institutional lenders, fund managers, borrowers, issuers, founders, and acquirers on a wide range of fundraising projects including M&A, Private Equity Investments, Private Credit Facilities and Syndicated Loans (including Project Finance, Trade Finance and Leveraged Finance), as well as aircraft fleet, LNG, offshore and maritime financings. He has also acted for a variety of stakeholders on Asia’s largest headline debt restructuring and enforcement projects in the transportation sector over the past decade.
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Phone
+65 9671 7013