Academic Staff
Syren Johnstone
BA (Hons 1), MSc (Oxon), Dip. Law, MA (Law)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Law
Syren Johnstone is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. He is active both as an educator and in the commercial sector.
As an educator he teaches Securities Regulation, and Mergers & Acquisitions courses as part of the LLM programme at the University of Hong Kong, and Listed Companies as part of the PCLL programme. In 2006 he co-authored "Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice" published by Oxford University Press. He is currently engaged in various other education-related concerns including serving as a Consultant for the Hong Kong Securities Institute.
A practising solicitor with Linklaters (admitted England 1993, Hong Kong 1994), he subsequently took up the role as Regional Head of Legal for Banco Santander before joining Societe Generale as Director and Regional Head (Asia) of Transaction Management where he was licensed with the SFC as responsible for Equity Corporate Finance. He currently is a Director of a boutique corporate finance and financial services company based in Singapore.
Specialized areas: financial services law, regulation of the securities industry, listed companies, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, joint ventures
Publications
Monographs:
- S Johnstone and D Arner “Regulation of Corporate Finance”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, (2012)
- S Johnstone and D Arner “Regulation of Credit Rating Services”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, (2011)
- S Johnstone and D Arner “Fundamentals of Securities and Futures Regulation”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, (2011)
- D Arner, B Hsu, A Da Roza, F Da Roza, S Johnstone and P Lejot “The Global Financial Crisis and the Failure of Financial Regulation in Hong Kong” AIIFL Working Paper No. 4 (2009)
- S Johnstone and D Arner “Regulation of Asset Management”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, (2009)
- B Hsu, DW Arner, M Tse and S Johnstone “Hong Kong financial markets – law and practice”, published by Oxford University Press (2006)
- S Johnstone, D Arner, B Hsu and M Tse “Corporate capital, governance and takeovers”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Coursebook for the Professional Diploma in Financial Management, Module 5, published (2006)
- D Arner, B Hsu, S Johnstone and M Tse “Regulatory framework: securities and futures industry”, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Coursebook for the Professional Diploma in Financial Management, Module 4 (2006)
Journal articles, book chapters, papers presented:
- "Law, Regulation And Smart Regulation – Where To Next?" Colloquium on Current Issues In Financial Regulation, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 12 January 2010
- S Johnstone, AM Da Roza and BFC Hsu "Regulator Accountability", International Financial Law Review, May 2009
- DW Arner, B Hsu, CK Low, GP Lienke and S Johnstone “Hong Kong commentary”, chapter in International Securities Regulation eds RC Rosen, IM Pollac and E Levy, published by Oceana Publications (2006)
- “Hong Kong financial markets – developing regulation”, Law Lecturers for Practitioners conference, 21 April 2006
- Guest Speaker, Merrill Lynch Investment Management Workshop, 24 April 2004, KL, Malaysia
- S Johnstone and D Mullarkey “Exchange Traded Equity Options and Financial Futures in Hong Kong”, chapter in The Capital Guide to Financial Futures and Traded Options in Asia, published by The International Securities Institute (1996)
- S Johnstone “A Safe Harbour”, New Law Journal, July and August (1993)
Summary of academic publications in scientific monographs and journals (non-legal)
Monographs:
- “Neurophysiological analysis of striatal function” in Neurophysiological disorders associated with subcortical lesions, Oxford University Press (1992)
- Human information processing: Measures, mechanisms and models, Elsevier science Publishers (1989)
Journals: Brain Research (1990), Vision Research (1988), Perception (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990)
