By guiding organizations through complexity with clarity and integrity, I help leaders make decisive choices today that shape a stronger, more confident future.

Derek Lai

EY-Parthenon Asia-Pacific and Greater China Turnaround and Restructuring Leader

Restructuring strategist. Cross-border dealmaker. Advocate of confident transformation. Trusted advisor in complexity. Adjunct professor. Public policy contributor. Lifelong learner. Mentor. Family man.

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Derek is a leading restructuring and insolvency professional in Hong Kong with more than 36 years of experience across Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland. He has held senior leadership roles within a Big Four organization, including Vice Chair, Regional Managing Partner and Financial Advisory National Functional Leader, and served two terms as a board member.

Derek has led complex restructurings, liquidations and cross-border engagements, advising on high-profile matters and providing successful relistings and exit strategies across jurisdictions.

How Derek is shaping the future with confidence

Derek currently serves as a Senior Advisor and was President of the Greater China Branch of CPA Australia in 2006. He is a Standing Committee Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Shandong Municipal Committee. An adjunct professor at City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Shue Yan University, he is frequently interviewed by media and recognized for his thought leadership in restructuring and insolvency, earning the title “King of Liquidations."

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