Course:
Business Law
Self-Paced
Online Course: $
2995
Estimated Study Hours:
128
This course provides you with all the business-related materials taught at the typical top-tier law school in the United States. If you went to law school in the U.S. with a view to becoming a business lawyer, you would be forced take a variety of non-business courses, like criminal law, evidence and family law, that will prove virtually useless to you in your business career. By removing several courses from our more comprehensive Law School Lite program, this course allows you to focus on only the law school topics that could be useful to you in your business career.
Topics covered include: forming, organizing and managing corporations, LLC's and other forms of business entity; contract formation, performance, enforcement and remedies for breach of contract; negligence, product liabilty, strict liability and intentional torts; damages, injunctions and other remedies available from US courts; real property rights; landlord-tenant law; the structuring of mergers and acquisitions; financing and securities regulation, patents and intellectual property.
It's no secret that the nuts and bolts of business have been negotiated and assembled by lawyers, not MBA's. Many of the most successful business leaders and managers leverage the skills they learned at law school. Upon completion of this course, you will not be qualified to practice law, but you will have the skills necessary to organize and manage a company, negotiate and structure a wide range of business transactions.
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The powers, duties and responsibilities of corporate directors, officers and shareholders.
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The advantages and disadvantages of organizing a business as a sole proprietor, LLC, corporation or partnership.
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How to form a corporation or LLC.
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Several of the key defenses presented by defendants accused of breach of contract.
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The various types of contracts, the various ways contracts can be formed and how contractual duties are discharged.
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How contracts are interpreted in court and the remedies available for contractual breach.
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How startup and smaller companies qualify for exemptions to escape the burden of registering their shares with the SEC when raising finance from venture investors and other accredited investors.
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The process of registering a company and selling shares in a U.S. initial public offering (IPO).
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How the sale of shares, bonds and other securities are regulated with rules administered by the Securities Exchange Commission in the U.S.
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When and how the sale of shares and other securities have to be registered with the SEC, and identify the point at which a company is required to start filing reports with the SEC and is required to conform with Sarbanes Oxley regulations.
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How merger and acquisition transactions are structured, and why triangular approaches are often adopted to limit liabilities and minimize tax exposure.
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The advantages and disadvantages of various exits for startup investors, including sale of the company in an M&A transaction and IPO.
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The steps in the merger/acquisition process, including the process of preparing a company for sale, due diligence and the roles of the officers, brokers and bankers in the M&A transaction.
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How patents can be valued and the various ways patents can be monetized.
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The nature of patents as weapons of litigation, and the role of the various players in the patent landscape, including NPE's, defensive aggregators and patent pools.
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Several of the key patent strategies adopted by startups, large corporations, NPE's and other types of organizations.
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How patent sale transactions are valued, negotiated and structured. Understand each of the key provisions of a patent purchase agreement (patent sale agreement).
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The essentials rights associated with patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyrights.
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The patent prosecution process, the scope of patentable subject matter (what is and is not patentable), and the role of patent claims under U.S. federal law.
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How patents are infringed, how infringement cases are handled, and some of the key remedies available from the courts.
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The objectives and concerns of venture capital and angel investors. Appreciate what investors look for when evaluating startup ventures for potential financing.
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How preferred stock financings and convertible notes are structured, exploring each of the key provisions of a preferred stock investment agreement.
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The basic laws regarding trusts in the U.S., including trust formation, trust failure, rights and powers of the trustee, the powers of the beneficiary and the rights of creditors.
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