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The existing LLM Corporate Finance course now focuses on capital markets. This course would focus more on the equity financing process over the corporate lifecycle, with a substantial focus on equity capital funding, M & A and sustainable finance. This corporate finance law course aims to help students deeply understand how those different financing approaches are structured and connected with corporate governance, and how green finance may impact

capital structure and corporate governance. Moreover, the course also aims to introduce students to the transactional and regulatory aspects of Venture Capital and Private Equity so as to encompass significant elements of corporate financing that occur beyond public capital markets.

10 x 2 hours seminars

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The assessment of this course will be divided into two parts:

(a) Coursework (25%)

Each student must submit a 1,500-word essay. The essay will comprise 25% of the final assessment. The topic for the essay will be posted to Moodle during the first semester.

(b) Final examination (75%)

Assessment will be by way of a two-hour degree examination in the December diet. Students are required to answer two questions in two hours (1 compulsory Problem Question and 1 essay question out of 3 or 4 options). There will be no significant overlap with the coursework (above).

Students are permitted to take ONLY unannotated copies of statutory material (UK and EU) into the examination.

This corporate finance law course aims to help students deeply understand how different financing techniques are structured and connected with corporate governance, and how green finance may impact capital structure and corporate governance. Moreover, the course also aims to introduce students to the transactional and regulatory aspects of Venture Capital and Private Equity so as to encompass significant elements of corporate financing that occur beyond public capital markets.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

 demonstrate detailed knowledge of the legal nature of corporate finance;

 show a critical understanding of the role of equity finance at different points in the corporate lifecycle;

 understand different structures and regulatory strategies on M&A transactions across different jurisdictions;

 understand the objectives and regulatory frameworks for sustainable finance and be able to map them on to corporate financing techniques;

 undertake a critical evaluation of current debates and reform proposals in the field;

 Identify and resolve problem scenarios in corporate finance

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.