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Course: 2024/2025

Business finance law

(14478)

Bachelor in Statistics and Business (Plan: 400 - Estudio: 203)

Coordinating teacher: GARCIA MANDALONIZ, MARTA

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Electives

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 4º

Semester:

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Students do not need to have completed a specific subject for optimal learning.

Objectives

Knowledges: - Understand and synthesize public and private financial instruments. Capacities: - To prepare reports on the various legal instruments of corporate finance. - To analyze and discern the financial instruments suited to the legal and economic structure of the company. Attitudes: - Critical, flexible and responsible attitude regarding the financial operations. - Entrepreneurial, innovative and social spirit.

Skills and learning outcomes

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Description of contents: programme

PART I: CORPORATE FINANCE LAW: CURRENT OUTLOOK FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS. 1. Introduction to Financial Markets: Credit market and stock market. 2. Fintech. PART II: INTERNAL FINANCING OF THE COMPANY. 3. Self-financing. 4- Social capital. Stock Market. PART III: EXTERNAL FINANCING OF THE COMPANY. 5- Public financing of the company: subsidies. 6- Private financing of the company: "3F: family, friends and fools", commercial credit, bank credit. Factoring, Forfaiting, Leasing and renting. PART IV: SPECIFIC FINANCING OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (SMEs). 7- Traditional financing difficulties for SMEs and proposed solutions. 8- Microcredits for microenterprises. 9- Crowdfunding: crowd-lending, equity crowdfunding. 10- Initial Coin Offering (ICO) 11- Mutual guarantee societies. 12- Participating loans. 13- Securitization. 14- Venture capital, capital development and business angels. 15- Alternative Stock Market. PART V: FINANCING OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED COMPANIES AND SPIN-OFF. 16- Spin-off and academic spin-off: definitions. 17- Financing of spin-off. PART VI: FINANCING OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES. 18- Social enterprises and social finance: definition. 19- Social microcredits. 20- Social Venture Fund. 21- Green bonds and social bonds. 22- Other financing instruments of social enterprises.

Learning activities and methodology

Theoretical and practical knowledge.

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 0
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment

THE EVALUATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF COMPETENCES WILL BE BASED ON:
 
- Theoretical-practical knowledge of the content of the subject.

- Acquisition of skills and abilities.


The student's continuous assessment will meet the following criteria:

- Attendance and participation in class (10%),
- Practices  (40%),
- Oral exposition (10%)
- Partial group exam with documentation (15%).
- Final research work, theoretical-practical (25%).


The continuous evaluation aims to check whether the students have met the learning objectives.

Through the evaluation, the student will demonstrate that he / she possesses and understands the knowledge of the discipline, that he / she is capable of making judgments, that he / she has the capacity to communicate such knowledge and that he has acquired learning skills.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

GARCÍA MANDALONIZ, M. . La financiación de las PYMES. Aranzadi. 2003
TAPIA HERMIDA, A. J.. Manual de Derecho del Mercado Financiero. Iustel. 2015

Additional Bibliography

CARDONE-RIPORTELLA, C.; GARCÍA-MANDALONIZ, M.,. Does recent regulation improve (or not) the Spanish mutual guarantee system?. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues. 2017

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.