Corporate Finance and Law (E. Tall*y)

Prerequisite: Corporations I highly recommended

This is a two unit course. Its aim of the course is to explore the increasingly merging fields of corporate finance and corporate law, particularly in the domain of mergers and acquisitions, securities litigation, and shareholder litigation. In each of these domains, finance and law begun, in recent years, to lean heavily upon one another. Part of the reason for this growth has been due to the greater focus and expertise that financial economists have developed over the last half century to answer “real world” problems of legal significance. Another part is due to the greater emphasis that both federal and state courts put on issues pertaining to valuation, fairness of transactions, market dynamics, and the ability to quantify risks.

Exam Notes: TH,P+