Business Law for Managers and Entrepreneurs

1.1. Defining the project, planning the organization and assessing needed resources: choosing between individual entrepreneurs and organizational forms.

1.2. Commercial companies. The protection of limited liability.

1.3. Personalizing the organization: by-laws, articles of incorporation and shareholders' agreements.

1.4. Choosing project participants and allocating roles.

1.5. Understanding and handling formalities and registration procedure to set up a business.

2.1. Decision-making in the company.

2.2. Financing the business project: financial structure, investors and investment agreements.

3.1. Rationale and characterization of intangibles.

3.2. The scope of protection. Legitimate uses and illegitimate interferences.

3.3. Basics of Competition Law.

4.1. Private autonomy and refusal to deal.

4.2. Drafting a contract: drafting exercise.

4.3. Concluding a contract.

4.4. Interpretation and gap filling. Good faith, reasonableness and default rules.

4.5. Validity and enforceability of contracts.

4.6. Electronic contracting (abridged).

4.7. Limits in commercial contracting: consumer law and other mandatory rules.

4.8. Breach of contract and dispute resolution.

6.1. Subsidiaries and branches.

6.2. Agents, distribution and franchises.

6.3. Investing abroad: joint ventures, strategic alliances, and reporting obligations.