This course seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the legal and financial aspects of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions, private equity, venture capital, project finance, and corporate restructuring. It will also analyse the role of transactional lawyers when advising private companies and different actors in capital markets, including listed companies, hedge funds, institutional investors and boards of directors.
The course starts by providing a background on the role and function of transactional lawyers, as well as the intuition and skillset that transactional lawyers need to possess to effectively advise clients in an increasingly complex, changing and global world. It will then analyse, from an interdisciplinary perspective, a variety of corporate transactions, including some major deals and corporate disputes that have taken place in the past decade.
The course will conclude by examining how technologies are reshaping corporate transactions, with particular emphasis on the use of AI and data analytics tools by law firms as well as the rise of technology-based fundraising methods such as Initial Coin Offerings.
- Being able to understand the role and function of transactional lawyers
- Acquiring the intuition, background and skillset that lawyers need to possess to effectively navigate corporate transactions in a complex, changing and global world
- Getting to know the economic and financial aspects of corporate transactions
- Being able to connect different disciplines and areas of practice involved in corporate transactions
- Being able to advise companies and investors in a variety of corporate transactions and in different market and institutional environments