Called to the bar in 2019, Yuan joined Cheng Huan S.C.’s Chambers following the completion of her pupillage. Yuan also served as Marshal to the Hon Mr Justice ZERVOS (now the Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court) in 2018.

Yuan has broad practice with particular experience in civil, commercial, insolvency and other matters. She has had hearing experiences both as sole advocate and as junior counsel in English and Chinese. Yuan also advised on matters in arbitrations with PRC elements and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and an Accredited Tribunal Secretary at Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). She accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers’ work both advocacy and advisory.

Yuan’s selected cases on civil and commercial matters include: Re: China Greenfresh Group Co., Ltd HCCW 83/2020; Re: Ming Lam Holdings Limited formerly known as Sino Haijing Holdings Limited HCCW 109/2020; Re: Flying Financial Service Holdings Limited (2022); 太平洋電信股份有限公司 v PREMIERE CONFERENCING (HK) LIMITED HCA 1662/2022. Her selected cases on criminal defence matters include: HKSAR and LI CHUN-HO FLCC 4989/2019 HKSAR (led by Mr Cheng Huan S.C.) and Dawna CHOW & others TMCC 1515/2020 (ICAC) (led by Mr William Lam). 

Yuan is a contributing editor of “The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong. Insurance Ordinance (Cap 41)”, Hong Kong: LexisNexis Butterworths. 

Yuan was appointed as Legal Consultant at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in 2024, with particular focuses on international commercial law including areas related to Enforcement, Bank Insolvency, and Digital Assets and Private Law, etc.

 Yuan is native in Putonghua, proficient in English and Cantonese.