Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is business law and practice 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

    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

    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

    1. Overview of financing a business

    2. Raising money

    3. → The finance journey MIND MAP

    4. Debt finance

    5. → Procedure for setting up a term loan MIND MAP

    6. Debt vs equity finance

    7. Security

    8. → Registering security MIND MAP

    9. Financial records and accounting

    10. PRACTICE MCQs: Finance

    1. Overview of bankruptcy and insolvency

    2. UK bankruptcy law

    3. → Bankruptcy MIND MAP

    4. → Individual voluntary arrangement MIND MAP

    5. UK insolvency law

    6. Procedures to follow when experiencing financial difficulties

    7. → Procedures to follow when experiencing financial difficulties MIND MAP

    8. Formal agreements: Schemes of Arrangement & Company Voluntary Arrangements

    9. → Company Voluntary Arrangements MIND MAP

    10. Formal procedures: administration, administrative receivership, and liquidation

    11. Summary of formal agreements and procedures

    12. → Formal procedures MIND MAP

    13. → Administration MIND MAP

    14. → Administrative receivership MIND MAP

    15. → Fixed charge receivership MIND MAP

    16. → Liquidation MIND MAP

    17. The order of priority

    18. Challenging transactions

    19. Liability of directors

    20. PRACTICE MCQs: Insolvency and bankruptcy

    1. Overview of business tax

    1. Instructions

    2. Business law MOCK EXAMS

Business law

  • 89 lessons
  • 60 minutes of video content
  • 28 mind maps

Business law and practice, made simple

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Jake Schogger

Co-founder, Lawyer & Education Expert

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 published eight books covering career development and legal education (including two best-sellers), worked extensively as a career coach, and delivered countless employability and skills presentations at leading universities and law firms across the UK.

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James Richardson

Co-founder, Senior Lawyer & Academic Author

James is a highly experienced solicitor and academic legal author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells, where he worked for years in their Commercial Litigation, Product Liability, and Insurance team. After stints in Hong Kong, Munich, and working as an M&A Underwriter, James moved in-house and is currently Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at Insurtech scale-up Cuvva.

James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he published 42 critically-acclaimed revision guides for postgraduate law courses, which have helped tens of thousands of students through their exams.

Connect with James on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jamrichardson

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