Key words
Commercial and Company Law
Objectives
To obtain the knowledge of the most important commercial and non-commercial cooperation forms.
To obtain a solid knowledge concerning the most important partnerships.
Students should deepen and broaden their lay knowledge on companies and commercial contracts, and, moreover, get acquainted with the standard documents and contracts used in business practice.
Be able to look for, to make an inventory of, to recollect sources containing legal data.
To recognize and to solve problems, to formulate motivated point of view and to analyse and comment the point of view of others.
Topics
- corporations and partnerships
- general regulations to all companies (foundation, direction, liability, profit-sharing, dissolution)
- partnerships without legal body
- study of company law (foundation, contribution, shares, organization, capital, disputes, liability, control, nullification, dissolution) :
- VOF, Comm.V
- NV, Comm.VA
- BVBA
- CVBA, CVOA
- restructure : merger, divide
- conversion
- study of commercial law :
- distribution contracts
-
credit contracts
- starting up a commercial enterprise
- bankruptcy law
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the law of obligations and commercial law.
Final Objectives
Materials used
GEINGER H, Inleiding tot het vennootschapsrecht, Brugge Die Keure.
Codex
Study costs
€ 30.
Study guidance
In group and if necessary, on an individual basis.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, discussions, cases.
Practical classes and self-study with monitoring.
Groupwork and individual presentation.
Assessment
First exam session: written examination (70 %), groupwork and individual presentation (30 %)
Second exam session: written exam 100%.
Examination Board Flemish Community:
First exam session: written exam 70% and individual assessment 30%.
Second exam session: written exam 100%.
Lecturer(s)
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