Business Transactions

Catalog description

This course is designed to assist non-lawyers in becoming valuable participants in business transactions. The course seeks to help business professionals understand the legal ramifications of business transactions in order to facilitate those transactions and to anticipate and solve the legal and practical issues that may arise both during the negotiation of business transactions and after they have been completed. The transactions to be discussed include mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and capital raising transactions. There will also be a brief introduction to private equity and an explanation as to why business professionals should be familiar with it.