Dr Fa Chen is a Lecturer in Corporate and Commercial Law and the Director of English Law & Hong Kong Law LLB-JD, English Law with Hong Kong Law LLB-LLM, Law LLB with a Year on Exchange in Singapore dual-degree Programmes at The Dickson Poon School of Law. He has previously taught corporate laws and has served as an Undergraduate Law Admissions Interviewer at the University of Cambridge, in which he has also completed his PhD study under Cambridge Law Faculty Scholarship in Company Law. Besides, Fa Chen has been a Harvard Law School – Cambridge Law Faculty Exchange Scholar.

Dr Fa Chen is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Before joining academia, Dr Fa Chen had practised corporate and commercial law in different legal professions for a decade, including as a Judge in Beijing, a senior in-house lawyer in Alibaba, and a partner lawyer in a leading law firm.

Research interests

• Company Law
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Capital Markets and Securities Regulation
• Law and Economics

Teaching

• Company Law (LLB)
• Private Equity (LLM)
• Fundamentals of Mergers and Acquisitions (LLM)
• The Corporate Form and its Issues (LLM)
• Transnational Business Law Instruments (LLM)

PhD and LLM Student Supervision 

Dr Fa Chen is keen to supervise PhD and LLM students in the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Securities Regulation.

PURE profile 

For more information on Fa Chen's research, visit his research portal.