Corporate Law Practice

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Course Fee: INR 3,000

Course Duration: 1 month

Access to study materials: 3 months

Class timing range8-9 pm on weekdays or Saturdays, or on Sundays

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Class frequency: Once per week

Class duration: 1 - 1.5 hours

Our Learners

Mugeera Patel Final Year Student at V E S College of Law, Mumbai University, India

Zal Shroff Law Student

For Law Students Only

Are you interested in learning about corporate law?

Do you want to know more about the different areas of work in a corporate law firm?

Do you want to be prepared with some new skills before your next corporate law firm internship?

Do you want to build a rejection-proof CV for a corporate law firm internship or job?

Do you want some exposure to corporate work, before deciding which area to specialize in, or before committing to a career in corporate law?

Are you facing any of the following challenges currently?

Do you want to apply for corporate internships, but find the roadmap to develop skills unclear?
Are you concerned about how you can build your CV to effectively secure corporate internships?
Do you sometimes wish that law school taught you how to prepare for a career in corporate law?
Does a lack of response or rejection to job and internship applications demotivate you somewhere?
Do you sometimes wonder what else you can do to secure a career in a corporate law firm or a company, apart from participation in moots, conferences, writing articles and working as hard as you can?
Have you faced difficulty in asking seniors at a law firm to give you more challenging work, or to train you?
Do you feel that despite having the willingness to work hard, you don’t have enough opportunities to prove yourself?

The real reasons why law students struggle with corporate law

#1 - Corporate law is abstract and not relatable

Think about an area of law that you are interested in. It may be criminal law, family law or constitutional law, public international law, or another subject.

Now, recall how you developed an interest in this subject.

Usually, it is because of one or more of the following reasons:

You can relate to the subject, and understand the motives of the parties involved. Case laws are readable and understandable. For example, It is understandable if someone is going through a divorce, or being arrested for something.
You may have read deeply about the subject, maybe for a moot court competition, or for a conference, or published an article, which made you understand it more deeply and even develop an interest in it.
You may have been appreciated by your peer group. For example, when you represented your college in a moot court competition, and maybe your team performed well. You may have experienced a sense of camaraderie with your team.

It is not so easy to relate to corporate law or to understand it.

For example, how should one comprehend a cross-border M&A transaction?

What is the purpose of regulating an IPO?

Why do lawyers need to undertake diligence?

How does working on a multi-million dollar loan make a difference in the grand scheme of things?

If you cannot relate to it, you will not be interested in it.

You will not be able to pursue it deeply.

You will struggle to excel.

#2 - Company law textbooks do not explain the work performed by lawyers in law firms and companies

Companies Act textbooks and case laws do not examine and explain commercial deals and transactions, or the motivations of different parties.

Instead, they explain the provisions of the Act and how they were interpreted, without really explaining the context. They do not explain the work performed by corporate lawyers every day.

That is why despite a lot of hard work and sincere efforts, thousands of dedicated law students are unable to make progress by reading corporate law textbooks.

#3 - There is insufficient guidance from seniors and faculty related to law firm jobs and internships

Our law school faculty has the mandate of teaching us the subject - not professionally coaching and mentoring us to get law firm or corporate jobs.

If you are fortunate, you may find excellent faculty for teaching you Companies Act, Banking Regulation Act, the SEBI Act, or Arbitration and Conciliation Act.

Unfortunately, the study of the statutes and case law is quite different from everyday work.

Now, it will be unfair to expect your law school faculty to teach you how to perform the work in a law firm or in a company.

The college syllabus does not require that.

In fact, such teaching may even deviate from your college syllabus.

Every law student does not take up law to work in a law firm or a company, either.

Some colleges organize guest lectures with practitioners. Often, interactions are usually too limited and unstructured to learn the requisite number of necessary skills.

#4 - Those who succeed attribute their success to vague reasons such as ‘common sense, ‘hard work’, ‘internships’ or moots that do not offer you concrete action plans for your life

When you ask your seniors about how they cracked law firm internships or secured law firm jobs or advice on interview preparation, they may attribute their success to one or more of the following factors:

Hard work
Participation in a lot of moots
A ‘good’ CV
Good seniors
Common sense
Some luck

You might hear an excellent narrative from a senior, but does it provide you with the direction or a roadmap necessary to apply to your life?

By the way, an astounding number of law students do not get access to law firm jobs and internship opportunities, despite ALL the above accomplishments!

You will be surprised to know that none of the following reasons can damage your prospects...

If you are not from an NLU
If you are a first-generation lawyer
If you have not studied company law in college, or if you couldn't understand it or found it boring
If you studied arts or science in Class XII and not commerce
If you do not understand accounts, or if you were petrified of maths in school
If you have not pursued a corporate internship so far
If you are not a batch topper

If you are a law student and you follow the 6 steps below, you can significantly increase your preparedness and progress towards a corporate internship or law firm job in a practice area of your interest, which offers recognition, growth opportunities and a good salary.

Our 6-step method to identify your interest and prepare for a corporate career

#1 - Conscious approach: Get exposure to the work performed by the different practice areas of a law firm through live classes, study materials and templates

The first step is to understand the work performed by different departments of a law firm. What is the daily work in each practice area? What does a client want from the law firm?

What if you could learn about at least one or two kinds of transactions performed by four different practice areas of a law firm?

This step builds understanding and relatability with the subject, and also makes it relevant. You will learn about these through four live classes, study materials, templates and exercises.

#2 - Focus on problem-solving vs. analysis or passive learning: Attempt the work keeping in mind the client’s commercial intent

What is a client’s commercial intent with the other parties involved in the transaction? How does a corporate lawyer take care of it?

What are the activities that must be performed to serve the client? What does the corporate lawyer’s output to the client look like?

No amount of studying and reading case laws or advice from seniors can explain this.

You will need to go through the ride, to be able to grasp this aspect.

Attempting 8 practical exercises in a month will give you an experience of what serving a corporate client feels like.

How is this different from what you have already been doing?

This method is very different from an approach of reading or analysis of case law. This is a problem-solving approach.

Because it is extremely difficult to imagine these situations on one’s own and try solving them.

In fact, it can take a few months or even years in law school to learn what you can learn in a month.

You must be wondering whether you can learn this in internships?

Rarely.

The real problem statements faced by partners and associates seldom trickle down to the intern. You get to work on a minuscule portion of the problem.

We curate the situations and training to give you an experience of the most important skills, and that is why you are able to quickly make progress.

#3 - Improve your capabilities with feedback and practice

Feedback is the most important aspect to improve performance. However, it is rarely provided in our education system.

While you obtain marks after passing an exam or submitting a moot court memorial, there are limited opportunities to identify where and how you can improve.

Where it is available, feedback is extremely generic, and you may not receive concrete action points and corrections.

What if someone took the trouble to read your draft in detail and give you in-line coaching in writing on how to improve?

What if they were willing to discuss any doubts you face while attempting the problem or questions on the feedback that you have received?

Would that enhance your learning?

Would that prepare you better for an internship, or an interview, or a job?

This step is a huge differentiator. It enables you to quickly make progress and march ahead of those who have been reaching and studying for months or even a few years.

#4 - Execute an advanced strategy based on an informed decision

After you have exposure to the work performed in different practice areas, you are finally in a position to make an informed decision about whether corporate law interests you or not, or which area to specialize in, based on your interest.

Guess what? It will take you only one month to arrive at this point.

From here onward, you can identify the top few players in that area, and as you acquire more skillsets, you can build a portfolio of work, publish articles and apply to them for opportunities over a period of time.

This step will ensure that your preparation is very focused. Every step that you take will make you progress by leaps and bounds, in comparison to others in your peer group, simply because of conscious and focussed effort.

Those who are interested will also have the opportunity to pursue in-depth learning in their chosen field of interest through our Executive Certificate and Diploma courses and build further expertise.

#5: Learn how to share your work online and apply for opportunities

Every week, we will also guide you on how to share your learnings in your professional network, and how to reach out to seniors and mentors.

This will expand your professional network and also increase your credibility.

Many of our students have been able to secure work or internship and job opportunities because of persistent outreach efforts.

#6: Obtain placement assistance

Once you have done some focussed skill-acquisition on corporate law, it is time to seek out opportunities!

You will have access to placement assistance from our placement cell for obtaining internships. They had successfully guided 50 law students in securing internships in under two months of lockdown!

Please note that we are offering support from our placement cell. Actual internships and placements are not guaranteed, and a lot depends upon your own effort.

You will need to complete all the course work to be eligible for support from our placement cell. You may be asked to acquire additional expertise as well on a subject, or expand your portfolio of work, to ensure that your applications are appropriately customized for the firms that you want to work at.

In some cases, the placement cell may advise you to improve upon basics, such as written English or grammar.

Money-back guarantee

If you take this course, follow it diligently for a month, do all the exercises on time but still do not find value in it we will refund the entire course fee to you. Please refer to our refund policy for more details.

Note: This is an introductory course, meant for law students who want to get started with basics.

Lawyers and other advanced learners are recommended to refer to our more advanced Diplomas or Executive Certificate courses (listed here) pertaining to their area of interest.

Syllabus

module name

Module 1: Concepts for Frequently Performed Company Law Work in Law Firms and In-House Jobs

Chapter: Types of companies: OPC, private and public
Chapter: How to draft a memorandum of association
Chapter: How to draft articles of association
Chapter: How to alter memorandum and articles of association
Chapter: Types of securities
Chapter: Appointment of directors
Chapter: Different types of directors
Chapter: Independent directors
Chapter: Rights issues
Template: Letter of offer
Chapter: Private placements of securities
Template: Offer cum application form
Chapter: Transfer of shares

Module 2: How to act for a company: Resolutions and authorizations for board and shareholder meetings

Chapter: Decision making in companies: Board meetings
Chapter: Shareholder meetings: legal and governance aspects
Chapter: Related party transactions
Checklist: Holding board meetings by videoconferencing
Checklist: Holding an annual general meeting

Module 3: Introduction to M&A structures and transactions

Chapter: M&A structures and how to choose and optimal structure
Chapter: How to draft an Asset Purchase Agreement
Template: Asset Purchase Agreement
Chapter: How to draft a Business Transfer Agreement
Template: Business Transfer Agreement
Chapter: How to draft a scheme of arrangement for mergers
Template: Scheme of Amalgamation
Chapter: How to obtain dispensation from conducting meetings of members and creditors
Chapter: How to draft a petition for approval of scheme of arrangement
Template: Application to NCLT for dispensation form holding meetings of members and creditors
Template: Petition to NCLT for approving a scheme of arrangement

Module 4: Handling investment transactions

Chapter: Introduction to share acquisitions
Chapter: Stages of raising investment
Chapter: All you need to know about term sheets
Template: Term sheet
Chapter: Steps in due diligence of an M&A transaction
Template: Requisition list for an M&A transaction
Chapter: Role of lawyers, bankers & compliance professionals in an M&A transaction
Chapter: Shareholders Agreements
Template: Shareholders Agreement -1
Template: Shareholders Agreement - 2
Chapter: How to draft a share purchase agreement
Chapter: How to draft a share subscription agreement
Template: Share Purchase Agreement
Template: Share subscription agreement

Module 5: How to raise debt finance

Chapter: Types of Standard facilities
Chapter: Financing documents
Chapter: Security documents
Template: Single Bank Loan Agreement
Template: Syndicate Loan Agreement
Chapter: Introduction to IBC
Chapter: Recovery litigation under RDBA
Chapter: Recovery litigation under SARFAESI
Note: How to decide whether to invoke SARFAESI, RDBA or IBC

Module 6: FDI and relevant aspects

Chapter: Introduction to FDI and issues faced by foreign investors
Chapter: Cross border investments and sectors in which FDI is permitted
Chapter: FDI and regulatory approvals
Chapter: How are approvals for government route investments obtained
Handout: Standard operating procedure for approval
Template: FDI approval application
Handout: FDI approval application - attachments
Chapter: Pricing, documentation, filing and other compliance requirements
Chapter: Evolution of FDI in e-commerce and present structure of e-commerce companies
Chapter: FDI in single brand and multi-brand retail

Bonus Module 7: Competition law

Chapter: Introduction to merger control regime in India
Chapter: Types of combinations
Chapter: Key terms of merger control regime
Template: Form I
Template: Form II
Chapter: Concept of control
Chapter: Concept of relevant market
Chapter: Concept of appreciable adverse effect on competition

Class

Class 1: Introduction to M&A Work

Types of M&A transactions
Investment work

Exercises:

Identify key commercials from a term sheet
Review a scheme of amalgamation
Draft an application to NCLT for approval of an existing scheme

Class 2: How to raise capital for a company

Exercise:
Identify the type of securities to be issued based on the promoter’s objectives and method of issue
Identify steps for a private placement for a private company & for a listed company

Class 3: How to raise debt finance

Exercise:
Review a loan agreement from a lender’s perspective
Identify the corporate compliances (filings, approvals and resolutions) for the perfection of security (to help lenders)
Advise creditors on recovery strategies in the case of a default

Class 4: How to handle FDI transactions

Exercise:

Advice on FDI
Advice on FDI in the e-commerce sector, single brand and multi-brand retail

Class 5 [BONUS]: Competition law work in a law firm

Exercise (in-class)

Drafting of Information
Drafting of interim relief application

Course Plan

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INR 3,000 (inclusive of all costs) Course Duration: 1 month

Access to study materials: 3 months

Class frequency: Once per week

Class duration: 1 - 1.5 hours

Class timing range :8-9 pm on weekdays or Saturdays, or on Sundays

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Online Faculty

Komal Shah

Co-Founder and Content Head, Lawsikho, former in-house counsel and company secretary with over a decade of experience in securities, funds and capital markets

Shweta Rath

Senior Associate, Lawsikho, ex-Trilegal

Yash Vijayvargiya

Content Head, Lawsikho & Advocate, Madhya Pradesh High Court. Worked as in-house counsel in BPCL & represented in several arbitration matters.

Aniket Aggarwal

Senior Associate, Lawsikho, former litigator

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