Showing posts with label What is corporate law?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What is corporate law?. Show all posts

Sunday, February 3, 2013

What is corporate law?

What is corporate law? This is a question I get asked a lot. Corporate law and practice corporate law may refer to the following:

1. Corporate, company law compliance, including general mand board eetings, forms and elections of directors.

2. Transactional law:  Agreements, documentation, licenses, policies. A transactional lawyer may be involved in IPO offerings, floating bonds and securities etc.

3. Regulatory complaince: In specific fields of business - such as telecommunications- a corporate lawyer may undertake compliance with regulatory policies of that field.

4. Coporate commercial litigation: This can be litigation in the field of company law, competition law or banking law.

5. Legal advice: Legal opinions and advice in matters pertaining to the aforesaid.