Lecture: Comparative Venture Capital Law - Details

General information

Course name	Lecture: Comparative Venture Capital Law
Semester	SS 2024
Current number of participants	1
Home institute	Summer Program
Courses type	Lecture in category Teaching
First date	Wednesday, 03.07.2024 11:00 - 13:00, Room: (Building H - Room 2004)
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile	Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache	englisch
ECTS points	3

Lecturers

• Prof. Jeffrey Manns

Tutors

• Antonia Burger
• Mia Abdallah

Rooms and times

(Building H - Room 2004)

Wednesday: 11:00 - 13:00, weekly (3x)

Thursday: 14:00 - 17:00, weekly (3x)

Fields of study

• Juristische Fakultät

Module assignments

• Austauschstudium Jura Austauschstudium Jura, 4. Version (SS 2024) > Juristische Fakultät > JUR-8321 - Comparative Venture Capital Law > Comparative Venture Capital Law
• Austauschstudium Jura Austauschstudium Jura, 2. Version valid from SS 2023 > Juristische Fakultät > JUR-8321 - Comparative Venture Capital Law > Comparative Venture Capital Law

Comment/Description

This course is part of the 2024 Augsburg Summer Program and is taught by Prof. Jeffery Manns (George Washington University, USA).

This class is designed to provide an overview of the legal issues facing start-up companies at each stage of their development. First, we will go over the basics of agency law. Agency law is important at every stage of a company’s development in creating defaults for employer-employee relationships, but it is particularly important at the formative phase of a business. Second, we will then discuss the choice of business entity, the challenges companies face during the incorporation process, and the need to create incentive structures to retain and attract talent. Third, we will go over the legal and financial issues facing venture capitalists and the formation of venture capital funds. We will focus primarily on the US start-up company context because it is a leading center for entrepreneurship and capital markets, although start-ups in Europe and every part of the globe face similar issues and choices.