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Laurence Franklin

Adjunct Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1976
M.B.A., Stanford University, 1976
C.P.A., State of Illinois, 1980
B.A., Stanford University, 1970

Larry Franklin, living in Hong Kong and China since 1981, teaches International Deal Making: Legal and Business Aspects, a course with half UVA Law students and half Darden students. This course, first taught at the Law School in 2003, is particularly well-suited for LLMs and third year JDs.

Franklin began his working career in the Law Department of The First National Bank of Chicago (now part of J.P. Morgan), first working as an Attorney and Senior Attorney (1976-80), then as the Asia-Pacific Regional Counsel (1981-85), then moving to the banking side as the China Country Head (1985-89). He was an investment banker for AIG in Asia (1989-98) and then a venture capitalist for Hutchison Whampoa (China) Ltd., serving as General Manager for Investments and as Head Legal Counsel, supervising a U.S. $500 million Venture Capital Fund (2000-01). Since 2001 he has taught more than 180 full MBA, Executive MBA and law courses, primarily in the subject areas of business law, international strategy, negotiations, investment and venture capital.

Franklin has taught in law programs for Virginia, Stanford and U. Southern California. He has taught in MBA and Executive MBA programs inter alia for Darden, Stanford, Chicago, Kellogg and MIT Sloan in the U.S., and for HKUST, Tsinghua U. (Beijing), China-Europe International Business School (Shanghai), Chinese University of Hong Kong, York University (Canada), U. Tel Aviv (Israel) and WHU (Germany) worldwide.

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