LEGAL TERMINOLOGY COURSE

Professor: RITA TINEO

BUSINESS FORMS (U.S. and U.K.)

THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Introduction to Corportations: concept, kinds, incorporation process, management, auditing, dissolution, winding up, liquidation, consolidation and merger. Reorganization and liquidation 

Partnerships and Limited Partnerships: concept. Agreements to create a Partnership. Termination. (Both U.S. and U.K.)

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs): registration process, differences between LLCs, corporations and partnerships. Tax aspects

Documents to be analyzed: certificate of incorporation, by-laws, Articles of agreement. 

Securities: Debt and Equity Securities. Bonds, debentures, preferred and common stock, warrants, put and call options. Stock Exchange. Investments. Securities Markets 

COURSE GENERAL AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

* This course is aimed at providing the theoretical background necessary to understand the basic concepts outlined within the American and British legislations. It shall also provide the terminology currently used in documents and bibliography with which the student may be faced if investigating those subjects. Through the revision of basic concepts, the students are going to be encouraged to make a comparison - whenever possible - with the Argentine law system. It will provide a wide range of specific vocabulary which the student may find useful to work with. This course is aimed at students who are deeply interested in commercial and corporate as well as financial and banking subjects.

* Likewise, the course is aimed at providing a frame necessary to understand legal thinking within the Common Law system and the conceptual differences of the same as compared to Civil Law Countries.

T.P. RITA TINEO