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22 July 2025  |  28 October 2025

Legal Capital in Corporate Finance (July intake)

Applications accepted until
22 July 2025
Short Course Coordinator:
Beverley Segaetsho
Accreditation:
Certificate of Competence
Course dates
22 July 2025 - 28 October 2025
Applications close
22 July 2025
Overview
The Legal Capital in Corporate Finance Law course will cover an often overlooked but essential component of the practice of corporate law and the business of corporate finance - the intersection of the balance sheet and a wide variety of common (and some not so common) business transactions, including raising capital, paying dividends, repurchasing shares, granting share options, issuing preference shares, engaging in mergers and acquisitions and liquidating and dissolving. One aim of this course is to demonstrate to numbers-averse law professionals that accounting is interesting, and involves many of the same types of judgments that are made in the law. The course will also briefly look at how other countries address legal capital (referred to in some countries as capital maintenance).
Duration
This is a block release course where participants attend lectures on a Friday and a Saturday from 08:30 to 16:30 on 18, 19, 25 and 26 July 2025.
Format
Courses might be delivered through blended learning. Students are required to have basic computer skills and stable internet connection.
Pricing
VAT Incl. = R19,350.00

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    The course content addresses the following topics: 


    • Introduction to the balance sheet and legal capital;
    • Regulating contributions (payment) by shareholders to the company (capital accounts);
    • Regulating distributions by the company to shareholders (including record date, equity solvency, balance sheet solvency, reverse share split, factors for board consideration, basis for board determination/valuation);
    • Creditor protection outside legal capital; and
    • Comparison between the Model Act and South Africa's Companies Act provisions on legal capital.

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