The Certificate in Business & Corporate Law provides LLM students with an opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to become well-rounded business lawyers. The approved courses for this certificate draw from the curriculum in this area, which ensures that students develop a strong understanding of fundamental areas of business and corporate law while also acquiring advanced training in specialized areas such as corporate finance, law, economics, publicly traded corporations, and taxation.
Note: LLM students may only earn one certificate with their LLM degree.
Students need to earn 9 credits as part of the 24 credit units required for the LLM. Students cannot earn a certificate without completing the LLM degree. Specifically, students must do the following:
1. Complete Corporations.
2. Earn 6 additional credits from the below list:
- Advanced Securities Regulation Seminar
- Accounting for Tax Lawyers
- Antitrust
- Art of Writing an International Agreement
- Bankruptcy
- Business Negotiation Theory & Practice
- Business Planning & Drafting: Fundamentals of M&A
- Business Reorganizations
- CEL: Entrepreneur Consulting Team
- Commercial Law
- Comparative Business Negotiation
- Consumer Law
- Contracts
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Governance and Finance Seminar
- Corporate Taxation
- Corporate & White Collar Crime
- Employee Benefits: ERISA & Tax
- ERISA Fiduciary Law
- Financial Accounting for Lawyers
- Information Privacy Law
- International Business Transactions
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International & Domestic Business Lawyering
- International Taxation
- International Taxation & Finance Seminar
- Investor-State Arbitration
- Investment Banking & Private Equity
- Law, Business & Governance
- Law and Economics
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Partnership Taxation
- The Past & Future of our Financial Regulation
- Private Equity Transactions
- Real Estate Transactions
- Reorganization Seminar
- Secured Transactions
- Securities Regulation
- Startup Law
- Survey of Intellectual Property
- Tax Exempt Organizations
- Transnational Litigation & Arbitration
- UCC: Article 2
- U.S. Banking Law and Regulation