Transactional Practice

Course Catalog Number:
5291
Course Credits:
2
Course Type:
Lecture
Course Priority:
Limited Enrollment - 3rd Year Priority
Graduation Requirements:
Experiential Learning
Full Year Course:
No

Course Description

This course will offer an experiential learning opportunity in that all students will observe and perform many "lawyering" tasks normally entrusted to legal counsel who work on complex corporate and financing transactions. These tasks often require execution of instructions from a client or senior lawyer. Some require bilateral bargaining and judicious compromise. Some require collaboration or teamwork.
The course will be cast primarily in the setting of a proposed acquisition of a "target company", as a going concern, by a so-called "private equity" investment firm. Students will be exposed to, and will engage by simulated participation in, the legal and practical dynamics by which transactions in this milieu are created, including:
Negotiation of terms and bargaining over allocation of risks and uncertainties.
Disclosure processes and protocols, for fulfillment of one party's appetite for information and the other's protective needs.
Choice of transaction structure.
Preparation of contract documents and drafting techniques.
Dealing with "stakeholder" needs.

Course Offerings 2023-2024

Term Class #
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

Professor

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Course Offerings 2022-2023

Term Class #
Spring Term 2022-2023

Professor

Professor

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