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Unit description
This unit introduces students to negotiations and transactional legal practice through a structured simulated negotiation exercise. Students will represent different international companies interested in working together to exploit a new technology. The form of collaboration could be a joint venture, a licensing agreement or a long term supply contract. The negotiations will take place through written exchanges and through live negotiations.
Unit content
1. Introduction to International Business Transactions
- The role of lawyers
- Financial analysis
2. Simulation Exercise
3. Negotiations
- The process of negotiation
- Issues in international negotiations
- Inter-relation of business, finance and law in transactional negotiations
- Special issues in negotiations: Impasse; Right of First Refusal; Inter-related Agreements
4. Structures of Transactions
- Joint Venture Agreement
- Supply Agreement
- License Agreement
5. Impact of the Press
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | discuss the sequential development of a business transaction over an extended negotiation, identifying the business and legal issues and strategies affecting the negotiation |
| 2 | explain the dynamics of negotiating and structuring international business transactions |
| 3 | explain the role that law and lawyers play in these negotiations |
| 4 | communicate and negotiate in a context that replicates actual legal practice |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- discuss the sequential development of a business transaction over an extended negotiation, identifying the business and legal issues and strategies affecting the negotiation
- explain the dynamics of negotiating and structuring international business transactions
- explain the role that law and lawyers play in these negotiations
- communicate and negotiate in a context that replicates actual legal practice
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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