The AIFC Court and IAC are delighted to invite participants to join, free of charge, an ONLINE COURSE: "Corporate Law in Practice at the AIFC Court and IAC: Responding to Potential Disputes in a Post COVID-19 Business Landscape". This training course will be delivered by Professor Marc Moore, Chair in Corporate & Financial Law at UCL Laws, London, UK. It will provide a focused and in-depth analysis of key potential commercial law disputes facing AIFC companies as the business world begins to adjust to the seismic economic implications of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The course will be practical in nature and will involve participants undertaking "hands-on" analysis of problem scenarios in contemporary circumstances and legal problems that may be the subject of future commercial disputes at the AIFC Court and IAC.
Session 1: "An Introduction to key aspects of the AIFC/English law" - (i) uniqueness of English & AIFC law from a commercial perspective, (ii) fundamentals of English/AIFC corporate insolvency law; (iii) fundamentals of English/AIFC M&A law; and (iv) fundamental principles of English/AIFC contract law relevant to economic risk apportionment in response to unforeseen events. (7 September 2020)
Session 2: "Corporate rescue and reconstruction in the aftermath of COVID-19" - this will comprise a hypothetical problem scenario involving an AIFC company faced with the need to restructure its debt or else face the almost inevitable outcome of insolvency, and will involve balancing the available options for restructuring its business against the competing claims of secured creditors to repayment of their private debts. (8 September 2020)
Session 3: "Conducting M&A transactions in response to COVID-19" - this will comprise a hypothetical problem scenario involving an AIFC company that is compelled to merge with another firm in response to COVID-19 related market challenges, and will entail balancing the need to safeguard the company's business against the competing interests of minority shareholders who wish the company to remain an independent concern. (9 September 2020)
Session 4: "Mitigation transaction risk in the light of COVID-19" - this will comprise a hypothetical problem scenario involving a debt financing transaction, where participants will be asked to consider the most appropriate means of apportioning the risk of contractual non-performance as a result of a future global pandemic or other extraordinary external event. (10 September 2020)
✅Lawyers
✅Business community
Please note that the training will be recorded.
Professor Marc Moore is Chair in Corporate & Financial Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London. He joined the Faculty of Laws in September 2019. Prior to this, he was Reader in Corporate Law and Director of the Masters in Corporate Law (MCL) degree at the University of Cambridge. Previously he held teaching positions at University College London and the University of Bristol, and visiting teaching positions at the University of Auckland and Seattle University.
He is the author of Corporate Governance in the Shadow of the State (2013, Hart), which was shortlisted for the 2013 SLS/Peter Birks Book Prize. He is the co-author (with Professor Martin Petrin) of Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory (2017, Palgrave). In 2012, Marc was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding researchers who have made a significant contribution to their field of study.
He is the co-editor (with Professor Christopher Bruner) of Hart Publishing’s Contemporary Studies in Corporate Law monograph series, and the co-editor (with Professor Hse-Yu Chiu) of Palgrave/Red Globe Press’ Corporate and Financial Law textbook series. He is Deputy Chief Examiner for Company Law on the University of London’s external LLB programme. He has given guest lectures and seminars in various countries.
Education: MA (Cantab), LLB (Glasgow), PhD (Bristol).
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