Faculty & Staff
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Stuart
R. Cohn Associate Dean, International Studies Gerald A. Sohn Research Scholar Professor of Law Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625 e-mail: cohn@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0925 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
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Courses
- LAW 6062 - Business
Organizations (3 credits)
A consideration of the various forms of doing business, especially for unincorporated associations. Emphasis is placed upon agency and partnership, with consideration given to other forms of businesses, such as non-profit corporations, professional associations, and limited liability companies.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6063 - Corporations
(3 credits)
Registration preference will be given to fall entering students on their fourth full semester, and to spring entering students on their second full semester. Consideration of problems in organizing a corporation, disregard of the corporate fiction, control and management, derivative suits, and special problems of close corporation. Consideration also may be given to regulations controlling insider trading, proxy solicitations and short-swing profits.
Prerequisites: None. - LAW 6064 - Corporate
Finance and Reorganization (3 credits)
An inquiry into the various methods used in financing the corporation, payment of dividends and other distributions, the reacquisition by a corporation of its own shares, and problems of mergers, consolidations and other forms of corporate reorganization.
Prerequisites: Corporations (LAW 6063). Recommended: Legal Accounting (LAW 6760). - LAW 6560 - Securities
Regulation (3 credits)
Examination of the controls and exemptions relating to the sale and distribution of securities by corporations, underwriters and others, including the scope of the securities laws, registration provisions, distribution and resale of restricted securities, express and implied civil liabilities, secondary distributions and tender offers. Issues will be analyzed in the context of the 1933 and 1934 federal statutes, as amended, and state Blue Sky laws.
Prerequisites: Corporations (LAW 6063)