LAW Securities Regulation: Mandatory Disclosure, Capital Formation, and the IPO Process
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Item is good for 85 routes, rollover orange dots above to see which ones! LAW 591 Securities Regulation: Mandatory Disclosure, Capital Formation, and the IPO Process Law School Recommended for route(s): [ Litigation ] Public Interest Law: General Why it is relevant for ... [ Litigation ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Federal Agencies : An important area of public interest law involves practice with or before federal agencies. Many areas of practice involving a federal agency have both public interest and business law components, particularly if the lawyer is working for the regulator rather than the regulated. Students interested in a specific area of business activity and its regulatory oversight should consider courses in the relevant business law area. This course, together with Capital Markets I, covers the scope of federal securities laws. General course Description: Capital Formation and Securities Regulation. This course analyzes the regulations governing the capital formation process in the United States. The course explains the process by which companies register securities with the SEC in order to go public, and the reporting obligations that arise once companies are publicly traded. The course also analyzes the process by which companies raise capital through private placements (the dominant capital formation process in Silicon Valley), restrictions on the resale of privately placed securities, and the securities law liabilities that arise in these transactions. The course also addresses the processes by which foreign issuers commonly raise many billions of dollars in the US markets without registering their offerings with the SEC, Chinese reverse mergers which have led to a spate of litigation, and recent legislation allowing "crowdfunding" of certain enterprises. Much of the course will operate through the analysis of case studies, in particular, a close analysis of the Facebook and Google IPOs, and private placement and secondary market transaction histories preceding those public offerings. Time permitting, we will also analyze the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (which, among other matters, requires that publicly traded firms properly account for and disclose bribes paid to foreign government officials), and disclosures related to the use of conflict minerals and to contracts with foreign governments in the extractive industries, i.e., oil and gas drilling. Course Style: A Substantive/Statutory course deals with law, theory, and policy in the context of a particular code or statutory scheme. Course Frequency: Offered once a year |