Doing Business with State-owned Enterprises - Examining Economic and Regulatory Risks

This mixed-mode seminar explores the implications of state-controlled enterprises (SCEs) by assessing the regulatory complexity and the normative tensions triggered by the rise of SCEs as actors in international law. The seminar is based on the book “Regulation of State-Controlled Enterprises. An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Examination” published by Springer in 2022.

The seminar will cover the following topics:

• Role of SOEs as investors in key sustainable development sectors
• Significance of SOEs’ investments in the US-China hegemonic rivalry
• The tightening of national security review of investments and the role of sanctions
• Challenges in regulating SOEs in free trade and investment agreements
• SOEs and alternative dispute resolution

Moderator

Prof. David Cook, Director of HKUST GEAR, Acting Head and Professor of Economics at HKUST

This event is jointly organized by HKUST Greater Eurasia Research Center (GEAR) and the Young Members Group, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (East Asia Branch) (CIArb (EAB) YMG)