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LAW 8010BED

Course Guide
HONG KONG CORPORATE LAW

LAW 8010BED

Course Guide

HONG KONG CORPORATE LAW

Course Start Date
Spr 2025
Course Level
8000
Length in Terms
2 terms
Credits
6
Language
English
Fees ($) (including lab fees)
29,400
Future Terms
Quota and Schedule
Course Start Date
Course LevelLength in TermsCredits
Language
Fees ($) (including lab fees)
Future Terms
Spr 2025
80002 terms6
English
29,400

Course Coordinators:

  • Victor Lee, BA (Hons) (PolyU of HK); LLB (London); LLB (Shandong); LLM (HKU); CPA (Australia); CPA (USA); ACG; HKACG; CAMS; ANZIIF (Snr Assoc)
  • To be announced

Aims

The course aims to prepare students to understand the legal framework within which commercial organisations operate; provide reasoned opinion on the legal structures available to a variety of types of organisations and their appropriateness; understand the internal rules and external regulatory environment which companies are subject to; apply relevant legislation, case law and best practice recommendations to legal and governance issues arising in complex scenarios; and exercise appropriate judgement when presenting advice on structural and legal issues in a relevant form.

Contents

The course covers the following topics:

  • The Hong Kong legal system
  • Contract law I
  • Contract law II
  • Law of tort
  • Sources of law, business structures and company formation
  • Capitalisation, financing and capital reconstruction
  • Corporate management, transparency, membership, member protection and remedies
  • Raising loans, liquidation and dissolution
  • Disclosure obligation and market misconduct
  • Interaction of corporate governance, competition law and the boardroom

Learning support

There will be ten two-hour online lectures and two six-hour compulsory face-to-face day schools.

The dates for the compulsory face-to-face day school(s) are as follows:-

SessionDate
123 February 2025 (Sunday)
28 June 2025 (Sunday)

The timetable displayed above is provisional and is subject to change without notification. You should check the confirmed timetable via MyHKMU of the HKMU website (Current Students) before term starts.

Assessment

There are two individual assignments, two application-based assessments and one examination. Assignments should be prepared with Microsoft Word, and submitted to Turnitin for plagiarism checking via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Equipment

Students will need access to a personal computer with an Internet connection.

Set book(s)

There are no set books for this course, but students will receive access to HKCGI online study material as part of the course.

Remarks

This is a two-term course starting in the Spring Term with teaching activities in the Summer Term. The course will end in the Summer Term.