Corporate and Financial Law

The LLM in Corporate & Financial Law provides a specialist focus on transactions, markets and global regulatory issues. Modern lawyers need to understand the structure and interplay of both corporate and financial law both at domestic and international level.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

- You will focus on key areas such as the legal framework for debt and equity finance, corporate governance and financial regulation.

- The programme covers both the private law focus on the structuring of individual transactions, and the public law focus on the regulation of financial institutions and markets.

- You will be taught by a team of academics with practical experience of transactions and regulatory issues.

- You will benefit from the combined experience of a lecturing team representing a rich diversity of professional and international backgrounds. Theorists and practitioners, litigators and consultants, our lecturers come from more than half-a-dozen countries, including Greece, Spain, UK and South Africa.

- The programme is supported by excellent facilities, including two dedicated law libraries and extensive online resources.

- The programme covers aspects of UK, EU and international law.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You are required to take at least five courses from the following list (plus one other) and to submit a dissertation as falling within the area. Courses are delivered through a blend of lectures and seminar style teaching.

Courses
Climate Change Law and Governance
Commercial Insurance Law
Corporate Governance
Finance and Social Justice Project
International Capital Markets Law
International Financial Regulation
International Insolvency Law
International Investment Law
International Merger Control
International Sales and Finance
Law and International Development
Law and Sustainable Finance
The Law of Secured Finance

One additional course may be chosen from other subjects within the School of Law's LLM portfolio.