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Corporate Finance A
Visiting Professor Eric Talley
4 classroom credits LAW-34000A Fall

This is a four unit course. It explores the intersection of the fields of corporate finance and corporate law, particularly in domains where the two fields tend to lean heavily upon one another: mergers and acquisitions, securities litigation, corporate governance, and state shareholder actions. Emphasis will be on developing an understanding for the greater focus and expertise that financial economists have developed over the last half century to answer "real world" problems of legal significance. In addition, we will consider how (and why) both courts and regulators now place significant emphasis on financial methodologies pertaining to valuation, transactional fairness, market dynamics, and the ability to quantify / spread risks. The course is appropriate for advanced law and business students, and does not require prerequisites. However, I highly encourage law students to have some familiarity with basic principles in corporate and securities law, and to be comfortable working with numbers (including basic algebra) and Excel. Some experience in an undergraduate or graduate statistics class is also helpful but not required. Grades will be determined on the basis of problem sets and a final exam.

 

 

 

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