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the core concepts of contemporary financing techniques. The selections made for the individual
seminar topics will reflect this focus.
These include:
1. The concept of capital and financing of Companies;
2. Raising share capital and the capital maintenance doctrine;
3. Corporate self-dealings;
4. Corporate distribution,
5. Concept of equity financing;
6. Loan capital (in particular Debt Financing); and
7. The taxation of companies.
Assessment
100% Research paper
COURSE CODE: LAW 6450
TITLE: Offshore Financial Law
CREDITS: 6
Description
The offshore financial centre has become a significant revenue earner in the Commonwealth
Caribbean and being inherently transnational, engages routinely the attention of capital
producing nations outside of the region as well as leading international institutions. A unique and
dynamic jurisprudence has developed alongside the offshore financial centre. It involves the
straddling of several legal disciplines such as the law on trusts, banking, insurance, company
law, revenue law, mutual legal assistance and law enforcement. This course addresses several of
the complex issues raised in offshore financial law.
Specific areas of inquiry include:
1. An understanding and rationalization of fundamental legal precepts and characteristics of
offshore financial centres;
2. An analysis of the international business company (IBC) and its comparability with
traditional company structures;
3. Issues of privacy, particularly in relation to regulating offshore financial centres.
4. Vehicles for mutual legal assistance;
5. An examination of the offshore trust as a hybrid legal concept and the legal challenges
facing the offshore trust;
6. Selected conflict of laws issues in offshore financial law;
7. Issues relating to law enforcement and disclosure efforts; and
8. Challenges to the tax function of offshore financial centres.
Assessment
100% Final Examination
COURSE CODE: LAW 6460
TITLE: Competition Law in the Global Economy
CREDITS: 6
Description