BUSINESS LAW II

The course is a core educational activity in the Bachelor's Degree.
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of the remaining part of corporation law not explained in Business and Economic Law I course, and, moreover, of the law relating to cooperative companies, groups of companies, consortia, and some general principles about bankruptcy law and negotiable instruments; during the course additional notions on financial intermediaries and issuers law will be also provided.

1. Knowledge and understanding
1.1 Knowing the conditions and understand the effects of extraordinary transactions, as well as the formation of groups of companies.
1.2 Knowing the distinctive features of cooperative societies and understand their specificities by reason of the particular aim pursued.
1.3 Knowing the rules of accounting law and business crisis.
1.4 Knowing the case and the discipline of credit securities and in its essential lines the discipline of the financial market
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
2.1 Knowing how to place the various cases referred to in nos. 1.1 and 1.3 in the evolutionary cycle of the company, also in corporate form.
2.2 Knowing how to identify the particular rules that govern cooperative societies.
2.3 Understanding the different circulation laws of debt securities, even when they are subject to dematerialisation.
3. Ability to judge
3.1 Ability to interpret the legal texts.
3.2 Ability to assess the scope of the institutions analyzed on the basis of their legal consequences.
3.3 Ability to identify the point of balance between the different interests that revolve around the phenomena analyzed.
4. Communication skills
4.1 Knowing how to communicate the specificities of commercial law, using appropriate terminology.
4.2 Knowing how to interact with the examiners, critically and dialogically, during the exam test.

Mandatory prerequisites: Commercial law 1

1. Amendments of the instrument of incorporation and withdrawal right.
2. Accounting principles and financial statements.
3. Dissolution, winding-up and extinction of companies.
4. Cooperative companies.
5. Conversion, merger and spin-off.
6. Group of companies.
7. Consortium, e.e.i.g. and other collaboration agreements between enterprises.
8. Financial market: products and public offers.
9. Business distress and bankruptcy.
10. Negotiable instruments.

AA.VV., Diritto commerciale, by L. De Angelis, 2nd edit., Wolters Kluwer Cedam, Milan, 2020: chapters IV, XII, XIII, XV (sect. V, parr. 14-16), XVI (3-15), XIX, XX, XXII, XXIII, XXIV (I, 1-2; II, 1, 3 and 7; IV, 1; V), XXVI (I; II, 2; III, IV, 1-4.3 and 4.11-4.14; V, XI, 1-2 and 10), XXVII, corresponding to pp. 125-136, 397-421, 490-493, 502-544, 581-626, 633-698, 701-702, 704, 708-709, 721- 723, 728-746, 777-781, 782-783, 790-811, 820-825, 829-854, 876-878, 883-885, 887-936.

Codice civile (up-to-date edition).

Additional learning material will be uploaded to Moodle platform.

The assessment of the learning takes place through an oral final test, aimed at ascertaining the knowledge of the topics covered by the program.

Frontal lessons with interactions with students

Italian

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development