Wong Yan Zhang

On the court record

Wong Yan Zhang appears in the reported corpus as an insolvency and commercial litigator, with winding up, injunctions and construction payment among the reported matters at the High Court and Court of Appeal. His insolvency work is prominent. He was engaged in an application by a contributory under section 486(2) of the Companies Act 2016 for leave to bring, continue and defend proceedings in the name of a company in liquidation, where the questions were whether the applicant had standing as a shareholder and whether the liquidator had refused or declined to act, and in a winding-up petition under sections 465 and 466 of the Companies Act 2016 founded on an inability to pay an undisputed debt, where the presumption of insolvency was unrebutted and there had been no setting aside or stay of the judgment.

His reported work also engages injunctive relief and the interface between construction payment and winding up. He was engaged in an application for an interim injunction to preserve shares and their value, weighing whether there was a serious issue to be tried, whether damages were an adequate remedy, the balance of convenience, potential harm to a company that was not a party and the undertaking as to damages, and in a Fortuna injunction matter under the Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act 2012 and section 466 of the Companies Act 2016, where a contractor had not been paid and the question was whether issuing a fresh statutory notice based on an enforcement order was an abuse of the court's process. He also appeared as appellant's counsel in a Court of Appeal matter on an extension of time to file a Form N under section 38(1) of the Land Acquisition Act 1960. Across these reported decisions his work centres on corporate insolvency and the injunctions and payment mechanisms that surround it, marking Wong Yan Zhang as counsel in insolvency and commercial litigation.