LAW5419 The law of financial transactions

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Creatively apply knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of the law and the practice of corporate finance to new situations for further learning such as those that will be introduced and examined in both the class participation assessments and the written assessments for the unit;

2. 2

   Investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories in relation to legal and commercial aspects of various forms of debt finance, including secured and unsecured transactions and other forms of raising debt, including the debt capital markets and solve related questions; 

3. 3

   Research the concept of the 'capital markets' particularly debt capital markets as a means of raising funds by Australian issuers in both the Australian domestic market and in the international capital market, based on knowledge of appropriate research principles and methods so as to be able to understand how these markets operate and to be able to assess critically the regulation of these markets; and

4. 4

   Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to the international financial transactions in the context of market practice having regard to the legal, contractual, regulatory and taxation regime in Australia, the European markets and to a limited extent, the US market.