Michael H.K. Ng is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining the academia, he has 15-year experience in direct investment in China. Apart from being an experienced commercial lawyer, he also previously served as the Chief Investment Officer of Hutchison Whampoa Group’s listed conglomerate and partner of a China-focused private equity fund. He specializes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, direct investments, joint ventures and corporate finance transactions and offered graduate course on foreign direct investment in China at university. He also researches in legal history of China and Hong Kong. His works have appeared in the Journal of Comparative Law, the International Journal of Asian Studies and Hong Kong Law Journal, among others.