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Written by Saren Abgaryan, revised by Claire Tian, April 23rd, 2014.
 

One of the advantages of the SHUFE Law School is the fact that classes are combined with presentations by guest lecturers from both academic and practical fields of law.

On April 17^th 2014, Ge Weijun, who is the lecturer of Company Law for LL.M. Class, has invited Frank (ZhiYuan) Yu to cover the topic of China’s Securities Regulation and Recent Developments.  Frank Yu has received his LLB and LLM degrees at Fudan University, and is a Counsel at DeBund Law Offices in Shanghai; his main focus is Company litigation and foreign investments.
 

Mr. Yu very briefly talked about the history of China securities regulation. He gave all the laws that cover the field of securities regulation, and their importance during the litigation.Mr. Yu explained the structure of Securities market, specifying four levels of stock market that exist in china: Main Board, Growth Enterprise Market (GEM), NEEQ and Local exchange. As the speaker was emphasizing, the legal and procedural developments happen in china very fast, and there are a number of recent developments. For example one of the levels of stock market, NEEQ, has been created very recently which got the name of “the new third board”. Mr. Yu also spoke about the importance and ways that government steps into the field trying to the regulate securities market in China.He detailed the main actors for company that deal with this market to Securities Company, Accounting firm, Law Firm and Assessment companies.

One of LL.M. students, Harsimran from Belgium, gave his opinion about the lecture saying “A guest lecture is always interesting and important for academic development. Besides having a theoretical approach from our ordinary lectures, this lecture, provided by an attorney also provided us a practical approach. The topic was very interesting as it was concerning Chinese securities regulations. It provided us with a better understanding of the securities market in one of the biggest economies in the world.”

Students found it very important that one of the experts of the field was invited to LL.M. Class to give crucial and hands on experience about the topic.