SME financing: risk and transparency
1
2019-2020
03016126
Law
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
15.0
Elective
3rd Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Company law, the regime of private limited and public limited companies in particular; banking law; law of obligations; capital market law; proficiency in English
Teaching Methods
Seminar, with analysis of the readings assigned for each session. In class presentation of research papers and discussion.
Learning Outcomes
The course aims to develop integrated, articulate, interdiciplinary knowledge and skills in the area of company law. The bearing of information on corporate financing, on corporate access to financing instruments (capital market), on the costs of such financing will be more specifically addressed. The role of minority shareholders and how they ought to be protected from private benefits by controlling shareholders
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. Fundamental concepts: risk, transparency
2. Financing mechanisms and financing instruments for SME
3. SME transparency instruments: internal transparency of corporate finances (right to information and surveillance mechanisms) and external transparency of corporate finances (accounting, statements, accounting revisions, audits, information to the market
4. Mechanisms for managing risk in SME: organic (supervisory bodies), contractual (guarantees) and public (prudential supervision entities)
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Research work: 80.0%
Bibliography
MAIA, PEDRO, "Corporate Governance em Portugal", in Questões de Direito Societário em Portugal e no Brasil Almedina, Coimbra, 2012, pp. 43-87
MAIA, PEDRO, Voto e Corporate Governance um novo paradigma para a sociedade anónima, Policop., Coimbra, 2009
MARTINS, ALEXANDRE SOVERAL, Valores mobiliários (Acções), Nº 1, Almedina, Coimbra,2002
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA, Banca, bolsa e seguros Direito Europeu e Português, Almedina, Coimbra2005
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA,"Cartas de conforto", in Estudos direito civil e processo civil (pareceres), 1996, pp. 369-394
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA, Direito bancário, Almedina, Coimbra, 2001
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA, Direito bancário, Almedina, Coimbra, 2001
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA, "Garantias acessórias e garantias autónomas", in Estudos de direito civil e processo civil(pareceres), 1996, pp. 331-368
SILVA, JOÃO CALVÃO DA,"Mandato de crédito e carta de conforto direito bancário",Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Inocêncio Galvão Telles, II, 2002, pp.245-26