Course Title: Acquisitions, Takeovers and Mergers
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Acquisitions, Takeovers and Mergers
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
LAW1050 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
660H Graduate School of Business and Law |
Face-to-Face |
Spring2017, Spring2019, Spring2021, Spring2023 |
LAW2430 |
Open Learning Australia |
Non Award |
660H Graduate School of Business and Law |
Distance / Correspondence |
OUAS3PG19, OUAS3PG21, OUAS3PG23 |
Course Coordinator: Matthew Harvey
Course Coordinator Phone: -
Course Coordinator Email: Matthew.Harvey@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 13
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
"Required Prior Study
040015 - Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Methods
040022 - Australian Company Law"
Course Description
This course examines the regulation of takeovers, compulsory acquisitions, and corporate reconstructions involving change of control, principal methods of company structuring takeover and corporate reconstructions, the ‘Takeovers Code’: Chapter 6 of the Corporations Act; hostile takeovers; disclosure issues; the Takeovers Panel, ASIC’s role, compulsory acquisition and mergers and acquisitions.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
See learning outcomes.
Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:
CLO 1: demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of the regulatory framework relating to the operation of Australian mergers and acquisitions and takeovers laws and the role and power of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Takeovers Panel, the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and the Foreign Investment Review Board;
CLO 2: critically evaluate the issues involved in takeovers and corporate reconstructions and identify areas of reform;
CLO 3: analyse and research complex problems relating to regulation of mergers, acquisitions and takeovers and make reasoned and appropriate choices amongst alternatives;
CLO 4: demonstrate sophisticated cognitive and creative skills in approaching legal issues relating to mergers, acquisitions and takeovers and generate appropriate responses
Overview of Learning Activities
To achieve the objectives listed above this course requires you to participate in various learning activities. These activities comprise the following:
* Leading class discussion on legal problems and policy issues.
* Engaging in legal research by traditional means but also using electronic legal data bases and internet searching,
* Participation in class discussion
Overview of Learning Resources
From 2018, Canvas is RMIT University's Learning Management System. Canvas is a flexible online system which will provide you with an engaging and exciting learning experience as part of your studies with us. The Canvas platform will be the primary site for you to gain access to all the resources designed to support your learning in this course. Your Canvas portal can accessed by logging into the following RMIT page: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students
Overview of Assessment
This course includes three assessment tasks as follows:
Assessment 1 (10%) CLO: 1
Assessment 2 (40%) CLO: 1, 2, 4
Assessment 3 (50%) CLO: 1, 3, 4