Negotiating & Drafting Public Mergers and Acquisition Documents Short Course

1 credits · Law School

This course will provide students with an understanding of the issues and techniques relevant to the negotiation and drafting of the key documentation used in the commercial transactional setting, focusing primarily on public merger & acquisition (M&A) transactions. The purpose of this course is two-fold: first, to acquaint students who might be considering a career in the corporate law arena (whether as deal lawyers or litigators) with the basic documentation with which they will be working and, second, to help students develop their commercial drafting and negotiation skills. To this end, the class will focus on (i) basic commercial drafting techniques and customs; (ii) litigation arising from imprecise or flawed drafting; and (iii) analyzing the key terms of commercial transactional documentation in the public M&A setting. In addition, the students will form teams (think of them as mini-law firms) to collaborate on a final drafting project due several weeks after the conclusion of the course. Prerequisite: Corporations or Corporations and Business Entities. Pass/Fail. [1]