LA4106 - Advanced Company Law

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Law Office

Available to LLB and joint LLB degree students or by permission of Head of School.

This subject provides students with the opportunity to pursue advanced study in corporate law. Coverage includes corporate finance (including debt and equity finance, securities and regulation of fund raising activities); corporate control transactions (includng takeovers, reorganisations, amagulations, schemes of arrangement and compromises, self-acquisition, reduction of capital and restrictions on financial assistance); corporate capacity and the corporation's civil and criminal liability.

Learning Outcomes

• describe options for corporate fundraising, provision of securities, dealing with securities and regulation of fundraising activities;
• describe corporate capacity and the corporation's liability for civil and criminal wrongs;
• describe corporate control transactions (including takeovers, reorganisations, amalagations, schemes of arrangements, compromises, self-acquisitions, reductions of capital and restrictions on provision of financial assistance).

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work individually and independently.

Prerequisites:	LA3106
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	(LA3016 and LA3002) and CO3512

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 6
Census Date 29-Jun-2007
Face to face teaching (10, 12, 13 July and 23 - 27 July. Exam to be held by 12/8/08, actual date to be confirmed.)
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Justin Dabner
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); (% - 40%); on-course assessment will be worth 40% of final marks and may consist of any or a combination of the following: assignment; class test; tutorial participation (% - 40%).
Cairns, Block, Study Period 6
Census Date 29-Jun-2007
Face to face teaching (10, 12, 13 July and 23 - 27 July 2007. Exam to be held by 12/8/07, actual date to be confirmed.)
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Justin Dabner.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 12 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); (% - 40%); on-course assessment will be worth 40% of final marks and may consist of any or a combination of the following: assignment; class test; tutorial participation (% - 40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.