The Advanced Professional Certification in Corporate Law Practice offered by Rainmaker on myLaw.net is the only certification course available to Indian legal professionals that is recognised in the legal industry as a marker of quality.
This programme has been used by law firms like Trilegal, Phoenix Legal, Bharucha & Partners, etc. to train their junior associates.
This programme has been developed by corporate lawyers with work experience in the best law firms of India and abroad like Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., AZB and Partners, Luthra & Luthra, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Simmons & Simmons. To make sure you get an enriching experience learning corporate law, we have a very limited batch strength.
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Master All Major Areas of Corporate Law Practice at Your Own Pace on the 24x7 Available Rainmaker Virtual Data Classroom
The most important areas of practice in a corporate law firm are general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and finance, and competition. You can cover this certification course at a time convenient to you and at your own pace. You need only devote 2-3 hours a week as a professional to grasp complex aspects of corporate law simplified by our expert faculty of corporate lawyers. On the Rainmaker virtual data class room, you can log in and access the course material from anywhere – even when you are travelling.
This programme covers all of these essential topics in depth with specific courses on:
- Company Law: Covering the Recent 2013 Companies Act
- Advanced Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Advanced Securities Law
- Advanced Banking and Finance Law
- Advanced Commercial Contracts
- Competition Law
The relevance of company law in relation to each of these practice areas is taught in relation to the recent 2013 Companies Act.
Transform Your Traditional Understanding of Corporate Law into Industry-Relevant Expertise
The Advanced Professional Certification in Corporate Law Practice is a training module designed to enable you to excel in all major areas of legal practice that corporate law firms engage in. It will enable you to be an effective decision maker in corporate law, as a general corporate professional, as a corporate lawyer and even as an entrepreneur. Your law school/B-school gave you a mere traditional understanding of corporate law subjects. With this programme you can build upon that understanding and transform it into industry-relevant corporate law expertise.
Learn Corporate Law to Develop the Entrepreneur Within
Entrepreneurship is all about taking risks. There is no running away from them. You can only hope to temper them down from time to time and make them more calculated. With strong fundamentals in a variety of corporate law subjects, and the ability to read and draft commercial contracts you will be confident with your compliance requirements, vigilant about your competitors' unfair trade practices and more able to work closely with lawyers or develop your own legal team.
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Course Structure
Trimester 1: Months 1-3
Advanced Securities Law
This training module consists of 10 Units. You will understand the legal framework that affects Initial public offerings ("IPOs") and the process followed by an issuing company in the run up to an IPO. You will understand issues merchant bankers have to address in an IPO, and the requirements a company has to fulfil once it is listed on the stock exchange. In the Rights Issues unit you will understand how a company undertakes a rights issue to the public needs. Whereas the unit on preferential issues will teach you the concept of preferential allotments or private placements. You will also have clarity in concepts including the trading, clearing, and settlement of listed Shares, securities involving foreign sources and insider trading regulations.
Trimester 2: Months 4-6
Advanced Mergers and Acquisitions Law
This training module consists of 9 Units. You will learn the methods of financing mergers and acquisitions, the role of lending transactions in M&A and how registration laws affect M&A transactions. In this training module you will understand the regulatory regime governing lending by domestic and overseas banks, the applicability of specific provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and to M&A, the nature of transactions that require approval from the Competition Commission of India and how listed Companies approach M&A transactions. This training module will make you confidently monitor the due diligence process and legal documentation in relation to M&A transactions. The manner in which M&A law is affected by company law will be taught to you in relation to the recent 2013 Companies Act.
Advanced Commercial Contracts
This training module consists of 10 units. You will understand the meaning of memorandum of understandings in term sheets, share purchase and share subscription agreements, shareholders agreements, asset acquisition agreements, joint venture agreements and ancillary agreements well enough to confidently draft them. This training module will also give you the ability to understand, analyse and draft important clauses frequently used in corporate agreements including conditions precedent clauses, representations and warranties clauses, indemnification clauses and boilerplate clauses. The manner in which advanced commercial law is affected by company law will be taught to you in relation to the recent 2013 Companies Act.
Trimester 3: Months 7-9
Advanced Banking and Finance Law
This training module consists of 9 units. You will understand the regulatory framework of foreign exchange laws that affect banking operations and lending transactions, the broad structure of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 and the nuances of regulations introduced by the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) relating to inbound and outbound foreign exchange transactions. This training module also includes units that teach you the process a lawyer follows while drafting documents for a typical corporate term loan, the drafting of a loan agreement and the boilerplate clauses involved in a due diligence process, and the role of Non-banking Financial Companies (NBFCs). The manner in which Banking and Finance law is affected by company law will be taught to you in relation to the recent 2013 Companies Act.
Competition Law
This training module consists of 8 units. Here you will learn about the need for competition law in India and the manner in which the Competition Commission of India regulates the market. This will be followed by a detailed study of the different types of agreements that are considered anti-competitive, including both vertical and horizontal agreements. In this training module you will examine the meaning of cartels and the manner in which they are prohibited in India. You will also look at abuse of dominant power and understand the different ways in which an entity can abuse its power. Finally, you will study how competition law treats mergers and acquisitions in India. This training module will give you a working understanding of the manner in which competition law regulates the market both from an Indian as well as a European Union perspective.
What leaders of the legal industry had to say about this programme:
“myLaw.net’s Advanced Professional Certification in Corporate Law Practice programme is by far the best learning resource I have seen for law students who aspire to be corporate lawyers and young lawyers who have just joined the profession. The quality of the content is of a very high standard, which is why we use it to train our 0-2 level associates here at Pheonix Legal. I recommend this programme to anyone who is serious about building a career in corporate law”
-Sawant Singh,
Partner, Phoenix Legal
“At Trilegal, we take training very seriously. In addition to the internal corporate law workshops that we organize for our new graduates, we have last year used myLaw.net's advanced corporate law courses to provide them with an additional learning opportunity to brush up on some fundamental aspects of Indian corporate law.”
- Aimi Hodiwala-Rale,
Head Knowledge Management, Trilegal
“Law firms invest a lot of time in training fresh recruits from law schools. I think these courses in myLaw.net’s Advanced Professional Certification in Corporate Law Practice help students get up to speed with real-world legal practice.”
-Jatin Aneja
Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
“This is a focussed and a comprehensive training regime for corporate law firm aspirants.”
-Umakanth Varottil
Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
& Former Partner, Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff
“myLaw.net’s courses are current, topical and exhaustive. I strongly believe that they are the need of the Indian legal services sector today.”
-Pramod Rao,
General Counsel, Citi India