| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 2 |
| Old unit code |
200.541 |
| Outcomes |
Students acquire (1) a working knowledge of the law governing the equity and debt capital of corporations; (2) an analytical framework concerning the regulatory forms of debt and equity markets; (3) an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of agents involved in debt and equity finance; (4) the ability to critique supervisory regulation within the context of crisis-management; and (5) conceptual insights relating to the operation and effectiveness of the Corporations Act 2001 in regulating the raising and maintenance of debt and equity finance. |
| Content |
This unit offers an examination of advanced topics in corporate law and regulation. The areas of corporate finance and securities regulation are intimately connected in that the law of corporate finance deals with the process by which companies raise capital from both public and private sources through the creation of financial products, while the law of securities regulation pertains to the rules of the public marketplace in which these products can be sold. The private marketplace for such products is, to a large degree, unregulated (or deregulated or re-regulated in some cases) and is better studied in the context of units covering such topics as banking, securities, commercial law and international finance.
Consequently, while this unit touches on topics from those areas, as well as from economics, its principal focus is on the intersection between the public and private law aspects of the equity capital of corporations. |
| Assessment |
Students are required to complete a 5000- to 7500-word research paper on a topic discussed with the unit co-ordinator (80 per cent) and a research presentation (20 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Assistant Professor Robert Cunningham |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week, with additional seminars
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| Unit web page |
http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/117285
[Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2010.]
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Prescribed
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Baxt, R. et al. Securities and Financial Services Law, 7th edn: LexisNexis Butterworths 2008
Ford, H. A. and Austin, R. P. Ford and Austin's Principles of Corporations Law, 13th edn: LexisNexis Butterworths 2007
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