Kenneth Khoo

Kenneth Khoo

Assistant Professor, NUS Faculty of Law

Teaching

Advanced Corporate Finance

Graduate course, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, 2025

This course introduces core finance concepts tailored specifically for law students. Adopting a classical finance approach, it covers topics such as asset pricing, diversification, the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, derivative pricing, financial intermediation, macroeconomic fundamentals, and capital structures. Additional coverage of mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance/law, and securities regulation where relevant highlights essential intersections with legal practice. By bridging the gap between law and finance, students will gain practical insights into how future clients such as investment bankers, traders, institutional investors, and other financial professionals operate.

Corporate Law and Economics

Graduate course, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, 2025

This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic considerations which inform the corporate laws and governance arrangements of key jurisdictions around the world. Issues to be considered include the allocation of power between shareholders, directors, and management; executive compensation; minority shareholder protection; asset parititoning and creditor protection; the rise of institutional investors and investor stewardship; controlling shareholders, dual-class structures and state-owned enterprises, the growing ESG and corporate social responsibility agenda, shareholder activism, and stakeholder capitalism. References to Singapore’s corporate and securities laws will be made where relevant. No background in economics is required to take the course.

Company Law

Undergraduate course, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, 2025

This course introduces the main principles governing the operation of companies. Students are to appreciate, inter alia, the rules governing the incorporation of companies, how this corporate personality operates, how this business vehicle fits in with the broader framework of the outside world, questions of funding and what comprises good corporate governance. Topics include the following: incorporation; relations between the company and the outside world, including ultra vires and agency; relations within the company, including the effect of the memorandum and articles, member’s rights, director’s duties, and enforcement of corporate rights; corporate finance; corporate insolvency and winding up.