Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is business law about?

    3. Key definitions

    4. Key legislation

    1. Overview of different business structures

    2. → Business structures MIND MAP

    3. Sole traders

    4. Companies and limited liability

    5. → Companies MIND MAP

    6. Partnerships

    7. → Partnerships MIND MAP

    8. Joint ventures

    9. Which business structure is best?

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: Business structures

    1. Overview of how to set up different businesses

    2. → Setting up business structures MIND MAP

    3. Incorporating a company and choosing its name

    4. → Incorporation MIND MAP

    5. Converting a shelf company

    6. → Converting a shelf company MINDMAP [ADD UPDATED ONE]

    7. Company constitutional documents

    8. Setting up partnerships and LLPs

    9. → Partnerships and LLPs MIND MAP

    10. PRACTICE MCQs: Setting up businesses

    1. Overview of company decision making

    2. Introduction to corporate governance

    3. Director decision-making

    4. → Director decision-making MIND MAP

    5. Shareholder decision-making

    6. → Shareholder decision-making MIND MAP

    7. Decisions that require director and shareholder approval

    8. → Company decision-making MIND MAP

    9. → Board and general meeting process MINDMAP [JAMES - CHRIS INCLUDED THIS FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER, BUT I COULDN'T SEE ANYWHERE FOR IT TO GO. DOES IT WORK HERE? UNNECESSARY GIVEN THE MINDMAP IMMEDIATELY BEFORE IT?

    10. Company records, statutory filings and disclosure

    11. PRACTICE MCQs: Corporate governance and decision-making

    1. Overview of directors' powers and duties

    2. Types of directors and other officers

    3. Directors’ powers and duties

    4. Substantial property transactions and long-term service contracts

    5. → Substantial property transactions MIND MAP

    6. → Long-term service contracts MIND MAP

    7. Loans, quasi-loans and credit transactions

    8. The balance of power between shareholders and directors

    9. PRACTICE MCQs: Directors

    1. Overview of shareholders and share capital

    2. The role of shareholders

    3. Share capital and share classes

    4. Shareholder rights and minority shareholders

    5. Unfair prejudice and derivative claims

    6. Acquiring and transferring shares

    7. → Procedure for allotting shares MIND MAP

    8. → Procedure for approving new allotments MIND MAP

    9. → Procedure for transferring shares MIND MAP

    10. Other share-related rights and procedures

    11. Financial assistance

    12. PRACTICE MCQs: Shareholders

Business law

  • 87 lessons
  • 50 minutes of video content

Instructors

James Richardson

Co-founder & Lawyer

James is a highly experienced solicitor and author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells. After a few years in their Commercial Litigation and Insurance team, James moved to the City to work as an underwriter on M&A deals. James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he wrote or co-wrote 42 different books for law students across the spectrum of graduate and postgraduate law courses. He now is Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at a motor insurtech scaleup called Cuvva, which he joined as first in-house counsel shortly after their Series A fundraise.

Jake Schogger

Co-founder & Lawyer

Jake Schogger is a best-selling commercial awareness author, ex-Magic Circle lawyer, co-founder of Law Student Academy, and the founder and CEO of legal careers platform Commercial Law Academy. He trained at Freshfields, then spent years at a boutique law firm advising start-ups and scale-ups on a range of corporate, commercial and employment matters. He has also worked extensively as a career coach, and continues to deliver employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK. Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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