Commercial Law II

Code:

D501

Acronym:

DCOM2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2003/2004 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	92	Official Study Plan - LD	5	-	7	-

Objectives

To give students a more detailed understanding of what is probably the most important legal instrument in today's economic activity: the trading society.
Its basic aim is to provide a theoretical-practical perspective of two of the most important kinds of company (private limited companies and public limited companies) and two structuring changes (changing the articles of association, merger, division, transformation, corporate groups and winding-up).

Program

Part I -CONSTITUTION OF COMPANIES

Chapter I – The deed establishing companies
1. Elements of the memorandum and articles of association (CSC, Articles. 9, 176, 199, 272, 466, 472, 2)
2. Registration of memorandum and articles of association. General regime. Pre-registration. Effects of registration. Nature of registration.

Chapter II – Changing the articles of association

Part II - COMPANY REORGANISATION AND CONCENTRATION

Chapter I – The Company as a Dynamic Organisation
§1 The Classic Legal Archetype of a Company
§2 The Company as an Evolving Reality

Chapter II – Company Mergers and Demergers
§1 General Notions
§2 Presuppositions
§3 Effects

Chapter III – Corporate Groups
§1 General Notions.
§2 Companies in Relation to Simple Participation
§3 Companies in Relation to Reciprocal Participation
§4 Companies in Relation to Domination
§5 Companies in Relation to the Group
§6 Corporate Groups at the Level of the Parent Company

Chapter IV – Transformation of Companies
§1 General Notions
§2 Presuppositions
§3 Effects

Chapter V – Winding-up of Companies
§1 General Notions
§2 The Winding-up Phase
§3 Liquidation Phase

Main Bibliography

AAVV, Estudos de direito das sociedades, Almedina, Coimbra, 2002; Albino Matos, Constituição de sociedades, 4th ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 1998; J.M. Coutinho de Abreu, Curso de direito comercial, Almedina, Coimbra, 2002.

Raúl Ventura, Alterações do contrato de sociedade, Almedina, Coimbra 1986.

J. Engrácia Antunes, Direito das Sociedades Comerciais – Perspectivas do seu Ensino, Almedina, Coimbra, 2000; Id., Os Grupos de Sociedades – Estrutura e Organização Jurídica da Empresa Plurissocietária, Almedina, Coimbra, 2002.

J. Engrácia Antunes, Os Grupos de Sociedades — Estrutura e Organização Jurídica da Empresa Plurissocietária; Id., Os Direitos dos Sócios da Sociedade-Mãe na Formação e Direcção dos Grupos Societários. UCP Editora, Porto, 1994; Id., Liability of Corporate Groups - Autonomy and Control in Parent-Subsidiary Relationships. An International and Comparative Perspective. Kluwer, Boston, 1994 (optional reading).

Raúl Ventura, Fusão, Cisão, Transformação de Sociedades, Almedina, Coimbra, 1990.

Raúl Ventura, Dissolução e Liquidação de Sociedades, Almedina, Coimbra, 1987.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam