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LS504H: CORPORATE FINANCE LAW (2025-2026)

Last modified: 01 Oct 2025 14:16


Course Overview

This course will explore issues within the law of corporate finance, with reference to different legal systems. It will provide students with a wider and deeper understanding of various debt and equity finance issues that are crucial to the law of corporate finance.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Alisdair Macpherson

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme
  • Either Law (LS) or Master Of Science In Corporate Finance And Law

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will cover a number of topics of particular relevance to the law of corporate finance. The content of the course will include a selection of the following:

  • Share capital: this will involve consideration of what share capital is and how it may be utilised for the purpose of raising finance for a company.
  • Issues in the ownership of companies: there will be exploration of certain issues involving the ownership of companies.
  • Stock markets and IPOs: there will be consideration of how public companies raise finance on the stock markets, with particular reference to initial public offerings of shares.
  • Mergers and takeovers: attention will be paid to legal issues arising in the context of one company merging with or acquiring another company.
  • Insider dealing and securities fraud: this will include discussion of what insider dealing is, the historical position regarding the regulation of insider dealing and what constitutes an offence under the current law.
  • Unsecured debt finance: this will involve consideration of the legal concepts of debt and credit and how and why companies raise funds by unsecured borrowing.
  • Securitisation and derivatives: there will be discussion of the concept of securitisation and how such transactions are constructed.
  • Secured finance: there will be consideration of the role of secured lending within the corporate finance sphere.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2025 for 1st Term courses and 19 December 2025 for 2nd Term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks 20 Feedback Weeks 25

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Feedback

Feedback will be provided on an individualised basis to students on MyAberdeen. It will normally be provided within a maximum of three working weeks (excluding vacation periods) following the deadline for submission of assessments. Please note, however, that School regulations mean that the feedback and grades on the final assessment cannot be released until the final course grades are released after being reviewed and confirmed by the External Examiners.

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandTo obtain knowledge and understanding of various aspects of corporate finance law (both debt and equity finance law), with reference to the UK and beyond.
ProceduralCreateTo develop and enhance key legal and transferable skills, including argumentation, communication, critical analysis and problem solving.
ProceduralEvaluateTo determine the most appropriate legal approaches or solutions within the context of corporate finance scenarios (both debt and equity finance-related).

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks 13 Feedback Weeks 16

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Feedback

Feedback will be provided on an individualised basis to students on MyAberdeen. It will normally be provided within a maximum of three working weeks (excluding vacation periods) following the deadline for submission of assessments.

 Word Count 2000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualUnderstandTo obtain knowledge and understanding of various aspects of corporate finance law (both debt and equity finance law), with reference to the UK and beyond.
ProceduralCreateTo develop and enhance key legal and transferable skills, including argumentation, communication, critical analysis and problem solving.
ProceduralEvaluateTo determine the most appropriate legal approaches or solutions within the context of corporate finance scenarios (both debt and equity finance-related).

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of failed element in resit diet

Assessment Type Summative Weighting
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Re-submission of failed element in re-sit diet; the failed course will be capped at grade 09 (D3).
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralCreateTo develop and enhance key legal and transferable skills, including argumentation, communication, critical analysis and problem solving.
ProceduralEvaluateTo determine the most appropriate legal approaches or solutions within the context of corporate finance scenarios (both debt and equity finance-related).
ConceptualUnderstandTo obtain knowledge and understanding of various aspects of corporate finance law (both debt and equity finance law), with reference to the UK and beyond.
 

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