Corporate Law with Focus on Europe

Aim

On completion of the course, the student should be able to - account for the Swedish corporation forms that exist and the differences between them, - demonstrate knowledge of formation of associations and their legal personality, - account for the statutory qualifications that go with organs and functions in a corporation, the limits of the qualifications and authorities, and the law of damages related sanctions in case of infringements of these, - demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the corporate law control systems, - account for the capital raising of corporations and the protection of the own capital and its composition, - describe essential differences and similarities between on the one hand Swedish association law and on the other hand German respective French association law, - identify and analyse the advantages and disadvantages of different corporation forms from different perspectives, for example from an owner perspective and a creditor's perspective, - identify, analyse and structure legal issues in the field of corporate law, - reflect on valuation issues and formulate deliberate positions to an advocated solution.

Content

This course covers business as a corporation from a judicial perspective. Corporate law regulates a company's formal structure through regulations of decision methods, division of power and responsibility, how the company's fortune may be disposed and of insight for different stakeholder groups. In the course, German and French corporate law is also studied in their respective language. In addition, the student exercises producing legal texts in the relevant language.