General Course Information
1.1 Course details
| Course code: | LLAW6299 / JDOC6299 |
| Course name: | Law and Wealth Management |
| Programme offered under: | LLM Programme / JD Programme |
| Semester: | First |
| Prerequisite / Co-requisite: | No |
| Credit point value: | 9 credit / 6 credits |
1.2 Course description
This course examines the legal, regulatory, tax, and practical dimensions of wealth management, with a particular focus on Hong Kong’s role as a wealth management and family office hub. It introduces students to the legal structures commonly used in private wealth planning, including trusts, offshore vehicles, family offices, companies, partnerships, foundations, and other holding arrangements. The course also considers mental capacity planning, tax issues, regulatory concerns, wealth disputes, family governance, and family advisory practice.
The course combines doctrinal analysis with practical and policy-oriented discussion. Students will be encouraged to consider how legal tools are used to preserve, transfer, protect, and deploy family wealth, and how lawyers, trustees, family office professionals, tax advisers, regulators, and family advisers interact in the wealth management ecosystem.
1.3 Course teachers
| Name | E-mail address | Office | Consultation | |
| Course convenor | Jing, Hui | hjing@hku.hk | CCT 606 | By email |
| Course convenor | Patricia Woo | patwoo@hku.hk | N/A | By email |
1.4 Course outline (for elective course)
| Please click the link here for the course outline (HKU Portal login required). |
Learning Outcomes
2.1 Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) for this course
CLO 1 Understand the basic legal, regulatory, tax, and practical framework of wealth management.
CLO 2 Identify and explain commonwealth management structures, including trusts, companies, foundations, partnerships, insurance arrangements, and family offices
CLO 3 Analyse how Hong Kong trusts law and offshore structures are used in private wealth planning.
CLO 4 Understand the relevance of mental capacity law, succession planning, and protective arrangements in wealth management.
CLO 5 Explain key Hong Kong and international tax issues affecting wealth planning structures.
CLO 6 Identify common sources of wealth management disputes and evaluate legal and nonlitigious dispute resolution strategies.
CLO 7 Understand the role of financial regulation in structuring and operating wealth management arrangements.
CLO 8 Develop practical legal analysis and presentation skills in relation to client-oriented wealth management problems.
2.2 LLM and JD Programme Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
Please refer to the following link:
LLM – https://course.law.hku.hk/llm-plo/
JD – https://course.law.hku.hk/jd-plo/
2.3 Programme Learning Outcomes to be achieved in this course
| PLO A | PLO B | PLO C | PLO D | PLO E | PLO F | |
| CLO 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 6 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLO 8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Assessment(s)
3.1 Assessment Summary
| Assessment task | Weighting | Feedback method* | Course learning outcomes |
| Attendance | 20% | 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6, 7, 8 | |
| Group Presentation | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6, 7, 8 | |
| Final Essay | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6, 7, 8 |
| *Feedback method (to be determined by course teacher) | |
| 1 | A general course report to be disseminated through Moodle |
| 2 | Individual feedback to be disseminated by email / through Moodle |
| 3 | Individual review meeting upon appointment |
| 4 | Group review meeting |
| 5 | In-class verbal feedback |
3.2 Assessment Detail
To be advised by course convenor(s). See also Course Outline above.
3.3 Grading Criteria
Please refer to the following link:
https://dm.law.hku.hk/law_programme_grade_descriptors.pdf
Learning Activities
4.1 Learning Activity Plan
| Seminar: | 3 hours / week for 12 teaching weeks |
| Private study time: | 9.5 hours / week for 12 teaching weeks |
Remarks: the normative student study load per credit unit is 25 ± 5 hours (ie. 150 ± 30 hours for a 6-credit course), which includes all learning activities and experiences within and outside of classroom, and any assessment task and examinations and associated preparations.
4.2 Details of Learning Activities
To be advised by course convenor(s).
Learning Resources
5.1 Resources
| Reading materials: | Reading materials are posted on Moodle |
| Core reading list: | TBA |
| Recommended reading list: | TBA |
5.2 Links
Please refer to the following link: http://www.law.hku.hk/course/learning-resources/