EXP: Transactional Drafting and M&A for 2Ls (Levy)
Additional Information
Experiential CourseYes
Skills Training
Team Projects
Drafting Legal Documents
Grading
20% Participation,
80% Paper,
Other (Most weeks, there are short drafting assignments that will be discussed at the beginning of class. Participation in these discussions and class participation makes up 20% of the course grade. The remaining 80% is split equally between two longer drafting assignments. There are no exams.)
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:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
T 10:30AM - 12:20PM
Tanenbaum Hall 320
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
This course is designed to expose you to documents and agreements that you would encounter in a transactional practice, with a focus on M&A, and to give you the opportunity to practice drafting and revising these documents before you are one day asked to do so by a client or a supervising attorney. Documents that we will cover include acquisition agreements, letters of intent and indications of interest, governance documents and other agreements that are ancillary to a typical M&A transaction. Most of the course is derived from the associate training program actually used in the corporate department at Troutman Pepper Locke, and the course materials are tailored and redacted versions of real documents and agreements used in client work. At the end of the course, you will have the beginnings of a model precedent file, with provisions you can refer to in your own practice.
This is a practical course. Class participation is required, and you will be asked to complete short drafting assignments (e.g., revising one paragraph of a contract, implementing a conceptual change to a contract provision) each week which will be discussed as a group in class. The more thought and effort you put into these short assignments, preparation for class, and discussion in class, the more you will get out of this course. In life, you will encounter many things that you can only learn by doing—contract drafting is one of them.
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.
Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.