Session 1

Introduction to law

  • The law, the state and the sources of law
  • International law and local legislation
  • Legal systems
  • Public order and private law
  • Areas of law

Session 2

Responsibility

  • Types of responsibility
  • Civil responsibility: contracts and torts

Session 3

Legal structures for business activity

  • Legal definitions of business activity
  • Participants: persons (individual entrerpreneurs, entities) and the State
  • Incorporation and association
  • Trusts

Session 4

Running a company

  • The management and the shareholders
  • The assets and liabilities
  • Labour law and outsourcing. Social responsibility

Session 5

Intellectual property

  • Copyright
  • Patents
  • Trademarks
  • Know-how

Session 6

Contracts

  • General principles: formation and existence of a contract
  • Most common contracts: sale of goods, service agreements, agency, loan agreements

Session 7

Security instruments

  • Pledge, mortgage

Session 8

Sale of business

  • Sale of the assets
  • Share purchase agreement
  • Shareholders agreement

Session 9

Fund raising

  • Securitisation and financial instruments
  • Public offer

Session 10

Regulatory

  • Antitrust legislation
  • Consumer rights

Session 11

Dispute resolution

  • Organization of justice
  • Public offer

Session 12

Regulatory

  • Antitrust legislation
  • Consumer rights

Session 13

Insolvency and bankruptcy

Session 14

Criminal responsibility

Session 15

Exam

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