The course content addresses the following topics:
- The company as a nexus of contracts
- Illicit financial flows and piercing of the corporate veil
- Piercing of the corporate veil within corporate groups
- The company constitution
- The capacity of a company and ring-fencing
- The authority of persons to act on behalf of a company
- Securities
- Distributions and share repurchases
- Financial assistance for the acquisition of a company's shares
- Directors' duties: the common law position, particularly 'monitoring of a director's conflicts of interest by fellow directors' and the statutory fiduciary duties and the duty of care, skill, and diligence
- The business judgment rule
- Directors' liability