LAWS20029 Corporate Law

A study of company and securities industry law. Topics include partnership, trusts and other organisational structures and companies, with special reference to formation of companies, effects of incorporation, memoranda and articles of association, registration requirements and procedures, prospectus and share issues, administration of companies, raising finance, directors, shareholders, meetings, transfer of shares, reorganisation and winding up of companies, takeovers, special types of companies, and regulation of securities industry law. If you have recently completed studies in Corporate Law in an Australian undergraduate program, you are advised to seek substitution for this course if it is compulsory for your current program. Alternatively, if your program allows, you may seek exemption.