Corporate Finance

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How do businesses finance operations and growth? How do investors and creditors provide that financing? What is the role of lawyers in facilitating these deals? Students will become familiar with principles that recur in corporate, securities, and bankruptcy litigation. The first half of class focuses on finance for lawyers, and may cover concepts such as basic accounting principles, fundamental and market value, the time value of money and discounting. The second half looks closely at doctrine and transactional private ordering in a firm's capital structure, including various forms of equity and debt financing.