Format: Lecture Outline on Vipan Kumar, PhD

Business Law for Managers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To introduce management students to law as a foundational asset rather than a bureaucratic compliance hurdle.

Lesson Outline

The Corporate Architecture

Legal Personality & Structural Shielding
- Understanding how the law insulates the business assets from the personal debts of the founders, locking in operational capital
- How the law insulates investor wealth from corporate failures, enabling risky, high-reward innovations.
Liquidation Protection

Corporate Governance and the Managerial Mandate

Centralised Management and scattered shareholders

Corporate Structure: Nature and Regulatory Framework

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To introduce the legal structure of a company and the fundamental reason why a company exists.

Lesson Outline

Structure of Different Business Entities

Sole Proprietorship: One face/owner where control and management are unified
Partnership: A group of individuals with a weak form of entity shielding (priority for creditors but no liquidation protection)
Company: A separate legal personality characterised by asset partitioning between owners and entity

Key Characteristics of a Company

The Shielding Mechanisms

Regulatory Framework of Corporate Finance

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

To provide a macro-level overview of the multi-layered statutory landscape governing corporate finance in India.

Lesson Outline

Corporate Formation and Capital Issuance

The Companies Act, 2013 & Rules
- Capital Raising
- Corporate Governance
- Financial Reporting

Market Integrity, Listing, and Securities Trading

SEBI Act, 1992
- Market Oversight
- Market Abuse Prevention
Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
- Regulation of trading contracts and the structural registration and oversight of stock exchanges to prevent undesirable transactions
Depositories Act, 1996