| Type: | Postgraduate Subject |
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| Code: | LAWS77-798 |
| EFTSL: | 0.125 |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Law |
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| Credit: | 10 |
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Description
Practical Company and Commercial Law is an elective subject in postgraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Law. This subject will examine a number of important legal areas typically dealt with by company/commercial legal practitioners (other than mergers and acquisitions). Students will learn about the practical methods for achieving the following key transactions and the key documentation involved in those transactions: corporate investments; options to subscribe for shares; financing through convertible loan stock; issue of warrants; joint ventures; partnerships and limited partnerships.
Subject details
Learning outcomes
- Outline the role of lawyers in selected company and commercial transactions, e.g. investments, share subscriptions, shareholders agreements and joint ventures.
- Demonstrate an understanding of deal terms and structuring arrangements, and an ability to apply that understanding.
- Show a basic knowledge of the core documentation involved in progressing and completing transactions and an ability to apply that knowledge.
- To describe, apply and evaluate key areas for negotiation.
- To evaluate risks and apply methods of risk avoidance.
Enrolment requirements
| Requisites: |
Nil |
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| Assumed knowledge: |
Assumed knowledge is the minimum level of knowledge of a subject area that students are assumed to have acquired through previous study. It is the responsibility of students to ensure they meet the assumed knowledge expectations of the subject. Students who do not possess this prior knowledge are strongly recommended against enrolling and do so at their own risk. No concessions will be made for students’ lack of prior knowledge. Juris Doctor students are expected to have completed a minimum of 80 credit points of compulsory law subjects. |
| Restrictions: |
This subject is available to Law Study Abroad and Law Exchange students. This subject is not available as a general elective. To be eligible for enrolment, the subject must be specified in the students’ program structure. Anti-requisites: |
Subject outlines
- January 2026 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2025 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2024 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2023 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2022 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2021 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2020 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2019 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
- January 2018 [Intensive - Practical Company and Commercial Law]
Subject dates
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January 2025
Non-Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 10/11/2024 Semester start: 27/01/2025 Subject start: 27/01/2025 Last enrolment: 29/01/2025 Teaching census: 02/02/2025 Withdraw - Financial: 03/02/2025 Withdraw - Academic: 06/02/2025 -
January 2026
Non-Standard Offering Enrolment opens: 16/11/2025 Semester start: 19/01/2026 Subject start: 19/01/2026 Last enrolment: 22/01/2026 Teaching census: 27/01/2026 Withdraw - Financial: 28/01/2026 Withdraw - Academic: 01/02/2026
| Non-Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 10/11/2024 |
| Semester start: | 27/01/2025 |
| Subject start: | 27/01/2025 |
| Last enrolment: | 29/01/2025 |
| Teaching census: | 02/02/2025 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 03/02/2025 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 06/02/2025 |
| Non-Standard Offering | |
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| Enrolment opens: | 16/11/2025 |
| Semester start: | 19/01/2026 |
| Subject start: | 19/01/2026 |
| Last enrolment: | 22/01/2026 |
| Teaching census: | 27/01/2026 |
| Withdraw - Financial: | 28/01/2026 |
| Withdraw - Academic: | 01/02/2026 |