Butterworths Hong Kong Company Law Handbook, 17th Edition

ELG Tyler

MA(Oxon)

Barrister, Lincoln's Inn and Hong Kong

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High Court and Federal Courts of Australia

Formerly Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong, District Judge Hong Kong

Senior Assistant Law Officer, Commercial 111, (Companies Ordinance Rewrite team), Department of Justice HKSARG

Professor Tyler came to Hong Kong in 1985 from Australia. He was a professor at The University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1991, when he became a District Court Judge. He returned to academia in 1994 to City University of Hong Kong and retired from there back to Australia in 2005. In 2007 he returned to Hong Kong to a temporary position in the Commercial Unit, Civil Division, and Department of Justice working on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite (The new Companies Ordinance was passed in July 2012). He is now working on the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law exercise. Professor Tyler has lectured and written on Hong Kong Company Law for the past 25 γears.

Stefan Lo

BBA, LLB (Syd), LLM (Syd)

Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Senior Government Counsel Department of Justice HKSARG

Stefan was appointed to the Civil Division of the Department of Justice in 2009 to advice on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite. He was previously Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong where he taught company and commercial law. Stefan has researched and published widely in corporate and securities law in textbooks, treatises, and local and international journals. He is a Research Affiliate of the Sydney Law School's Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.