The Advanced Corporate Finance and Governance Workshop, open to 16 students who will receive 5 credits over one semester, draws together various aspects of corporate law focused on business transactions involving corporate finance and applies that knowledge to analyzing typical problems that confront a business lawyer involved in the broad area of corporate finance in the public and private debt and equity markets. It is also intended that students will develop insight into the broader theoretical and ethical considerations that necessarily confront a business lawyer.
The workshop is conducted by Carol Pennycook, Patricia Olasker and other partners at Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP.
Topics will include:
- Business structures (including corporations, limited partnerships, investment trusts and alternative structures);
- Equity offerings in the capital markets - IPOs (initial public offerings) and private placements
- Bank financings - secured and unsecured
- Debt offerings in the capital markets - public offerings and private placements of bonds, debentures, medium term notes and commercial paper;
- Securitization transactions;
- Roles of rating agencies and investment dealers in corporate finance;
- Insolvency and restructuring;
- Corporate governance;
- How to run a deal - due diligence to closings.
Please consult the current syllabus of courses for information concerning assignments and grading. Students may take both the Advanced Business Law Workshops (I and II), which are offered in different semesters.