Professor Shen Wei, Dean of the Shandong University Law School, gave a guest lecture on Arbitration of International Financial Disputes in Shanghai on Monday, 2 May  2016.

The talk presented the latest developments of international commercial arbitration in China and Shanghai’s plan to turn itself to be a global financial center. The lecture gave detailed insights regarding the implementation of Shanghai’s strategy to build up dispute resolutions platforms for financial disputes. Following the interesting presentation, the audience counting mostly practitioners, including the President of the Finnish Supreme Court Timo Esko, engaged into a discussion on the challenges faced by practitioners of trans-border arbitration and the growing importance of China.

The Center’s Guest Lecture Series receives scholars from China and other countries to present the recent developments in specific fields of Chinese law or their research related to Chinese law and Chinese legal culture. The purpose of this series is to keep all interested well informed about the transformations within Chinese law as well as bring awareness of the research focus among China Law scholars. Moreover, the guest lecture series aims to facilitate a cross-border exchange of ideas and promote legal comparison.

 

At the occasion of his visit to Finland, Professor Shen Wei has donated to the Center’s library collection his latest publication: “Investor Protection in the Capital Markets: The Case of Hong Kong“. This publication focuses on and applies the investor protection benchmarks as set out in the 2014 (new) Companies Ordinance and Securities and Futures Ordinance, ranging across the following main topics: Hong Kong’s regulatory framework for the capital markets in general; Regulation of issuers through the disclosure regime; Regulation of intermediaries; Investor compensation schemes; Market misconducts regulated by the Securities and Futures Ordinance as provided for in the Securities and Futures Ordinance; Approved Trading Services (ATS); Lehman Brothers’ minibonds saga and investor protection issue in the context of structured financial products regulation; Heated debates on HKEx’s rejection of Alibaba’s request to be listed in Hong Kong.