Aims

The purpose of this course is to prepare the students to occupy high-level positions in the business world, whether in a company, a law firm or a political institution. The course will have to equip the students with practical and theoretical techniques, from the area of financial law, to enable them to exercise these functions.

Main themes

The course has a two-fold approach to financial law. The first is from the point of view of the issuer (i.e. a publicly traded company, or possibly a legal entity under public law): the securities concept; range of securities; the primary market (offer of securities for sale, especially on admittance to the Stock Exchange); the secondary market (trading in securities, especially through the Stock Exchange). A second approach, more focused on public law, will be devoted to the study of the statute and the functioning of capital markets, as well as to the protective rules for public savings (and, especially, the role of the financial regulator).

Content and teaching methods

In this two-fold approach, the tutor suggests one or two specially chosen themes for emphasis. For example, the mandatory takeover bid after acquisition of control of a public company, the determination of share prices on admittance to the stock exchange, etc. The themes could be the subject of separate projects. As far as possible, the tutor will chose topics from the current financial news. The course is essentially interactive and requires a significant amount of individual preparation from students (reading, drafting, etc.).

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