Deals (Knoll)
Faculty
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| Michael Knoll Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law & Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law and Policy mknoll@law.upenn.edu |
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Team Projects
Drafting Legal Documents
Grading
20% Participation,
80% Exam
Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
TBA
TBA
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
3.0
This course focuses on the role of professionals, including lawyers of all types (corporate, tax, securities, etc.), direct private equity investors, corporate business development officers, and investment bankers, in creating value through transaction engineering. The overall goal of the course is to explain how private parties order their commercial interactions, to develop a theory of how they ought to do this, and to gain a thorough understanding of how business deals are actually done.
The requirements for the course are regular attendance, active participation in class discussions and exercises, and a final examination. Most of our time in class will be spent actively discussing the assigned cases. It is, thus, important to come to class each day having read that day's exercises.
This course is only open to and is required for rising second-year students in the three-year Carey JD/MBA program.
The course meets in Gittis 214.
Business and Corporate Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of business and corporate law; Perform legal analysis in the context of business and corporate law; Communicate effectively on topics related to business and corporate law; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between the world of business and finance and that of business and corporate law, and how they affect other areas of law and society.