Hong Kong Corporate Law

Course Coordinator: 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 the 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 Obligations and Market Misconduct
• Interaction of Corporate Governance, Competition Law and the Boardroom

Contact hours
A total of 60 contact hours across one term.

Assessment
The continuous assessment portion of the course accounts for 40% of the total course score, which consists of written assignments (30%) and class participation (10%). The final examination accounts for the remaining 60% of the total course score. Students are required to submit written assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

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.