Companies Law Issues

Code:

MD516

Acronym:

TDS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Law

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S (since 16-09-2024 to 20-12-2024)

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
MD	9	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2023	1	-	7,5	68	202,5
		Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2024	1	-	7,5	68	202,5

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Português/Portuguese

Objectives

Deepen and update knowledge, as well as develop and stimulate the interpretation and critical analysis of legal solutions relating to cutting-edge and current issues of corporate law. Master students should be able to solve concrete situations when confronted with the problems analysed in the CU, knowing the doctrine and jurisprudence and understanding the ratio legis subjacente. It is also intended to promote the maturity and research capacities of research capacities of the students.

Learning outcomes and competences

The defined programmatic contents correspond to a post-graduate level of learning, not being object of teaching in the licentiate degree due to its technical complexity and high specialization, and demand the capacity of analysis and investigation of the masters students. They allow a very complete and diversified vision of the main problems that corporate law raises every day, putting the students in conditions to deal with these issues in their professional lives.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Knowledge of the general regime applicable to commercial companies

Program

1. The future of commercial companies
2. Corporate financing
3. Corporate governance The liability of the members of the corporate bodies
4. Corporate bonding
5. Corporate resolutions
6. The causa societatis: profit
7. Disregard of legal personality
8. Other (possible) corporate topics proposed in class by students

Mandatory literature

Paulo de Tarso Domingues; O financiamento societário pelos sócios (e o seu reverso)
Coutinho de Abreu; Curso de direito comercial, vol. 2, 7.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2021
Coutinho de Abreu; Código das Sociedades em Comentário, 7 vols., Almedina, Coimbra
Paulo Olavo Cunha; Direito das sociedades comerciais, 7.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2021
Pedro Pais de Vasconcelos; A participação social, Almedina, Coimbra
Rui Pinto Duarte; Escritos sobre direito das sociedades, Coimbra Editora, Coimbra
Alexandre Soveral Martins; Os poderes de representação dos administradores de sociedades anónimas

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of the subject in the classroom with reference to the applicable legislation and recent case law. Questioning of the students on the different subjects and encouragement to ask questions. Resolution of practical cases based on the pertinent case law.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Participação presencial	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	50,00
Frequência das aulas	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Distributed evaluation with final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

The assessment will be made up of the following components: presentation of individual work - 40 per cent; face-to-face participation - 10 per cent and final exam - 50 per cent. Failure to complete any of the assessment elements will result in a mark of 0 for that component for the purposes of calculating the final average. All three components of the distributed assessment may be taken by written exam during the appeal period.

Classification improvement

Grades can only be improved by a final exam