Professor Sang Yop KANG was invited to the University of Tokyo School of Law to give intensive lectures alongside other world-renowned scholars in corporate law as part of the “Global Trends in Corporate Governance” program (August 2023). Professor Kang’s lectures focused on (1) a theoretical explanation of controlling shareholders’ tunneling activities (a general theoretical approach rather than specific to any jurisdiction) and (2) issues related to China's dual-class equity structures and other aspects of corporate governance. Professor Kang also gave intensive lectures on Corporate Governance upon invitation from the University of Tokyo School of Law in 2019. While the program mainly attracts students from the University of Tokyo interested in corporate and securities law, it also sees participation from lawyers working in Japanese law firms and a small number of foreign students, including Chinese students from Peking University.
Professor Sang Yop Kang holds a full professorship with tenure at Peking University, School of Transnational Law. His areas of teaching and research include corporate governance, corporate law, securities regulations, M&As, and law and economics. He also focuses on ESG, platform economy, fintech, capital markets, financial market regulations, and banking policies. His expertise extends to startups and venture capitals, competition law (anti-trust), the 4th industrial revolution, corporate groups, institutional investors (including hedge funds and private equity funds), shareholder activism, stewardship, executive compensation, Chinese economic policies, Chinese corporate governance, and political economy.
Professor Kang publishes numerous articles in academic journals such as the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, the Berkeley Business Law Journal, the Virginia Law & Business Review, the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, and Tsinghua China Law Review. Also, with world-leading scholars, Professor Kang is a coauthor of “Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions” (Cambridge University Press), “Comparative Corporate Governance” (Edward Elgar), and “Global Shareholder Stewardship” (Cambridge University Press). Moreover, he coauthored “Regulation on Corporate Groups,” an academically significant book in the area of corporate-group regulation published in Korea. He has been serving as a policy advisor for the Korean government and National Assembly (Congress) on regulatory policies such as policies about large corporate groups and the separation of banking and commerce.
Professor Kang holds J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law) degree at Columbia University School of Law. He is a Research Member of the ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), the most prestigious global academic association for the corporate governance scholarship (law, economics, and finance). Professor Kang is a lawyer. Also, he is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and a FRM (Financial Risk Manager) charter-holder. In addition, he is an arbitrator at the SCIA (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration). Before he studied law, he studied economics and finance and used to be a fund manager. He also composes piano pieces.
Professor Sang Yop Kang
Left (Professor Sang Yop Kang), Center (University of Tokyo School of Law Dean Kakiuchi Shusuke), Right (Professor Dan Puchniak)
Professor Sang Yop Kang with students in the farewell party of the“Global Trends in Corporate Governance” program at the University of Tokyo
