The course aims at providing students with basic knowledge, and at the same time with a deeper insight of the main legal topics concerning financial contracts for businesses and enterprises, as well as the relationship between financial intermediaries and clients and the provision of financial and investment services, as well as certain specific types of financial contracts.
In particular, the course provides basic knowledge for the legal analysis of complex issues in financial transactions and the relevant legal framework for their discipline. For the purpose thereof, particular attention shall be devoted – with a private law approach and with a special focus on contractual relationships – to issues related to the rules applicable to financial contract stemming from traditional civil law and codifications, banking law and financial markets laws and regulations
Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and ability to understand the international legal framework of financial contracts and their operativity. Full knowledge and ability to understand the relevant legal issues concerning main financial contracts, including in particular investment contracts and derivative contracts.
Applying knowledge and understanding
Ability to analyze and interpret, case analysis, legal qualification and classification of the relationship between economic transactions and the legal system of the sources of the law, legal notions and current trends in the relevant case law.
Making judgements
Ability to analyze and critically review the relevant legal doctrines and case law in order to properly identify, address and solve problems arising from practice of international contracts.
Communication skills
Ability to use a technical legal language in order to properly illustrate the logical and theoretical reasoning that lead to the solution of relevant problems.
Learning skills
Capability of updating and exploit the knowledge background acquired in the Course and to apply it for the purpose of analyzing new laws and legal texts, new case law, doctrine and jurisprudence in order to be capable of constantly update the basic knowledge gained.