Class Commercial Law II

In this curricular unit, the legal regime of commercial companies is studied from their incorporation to their extinction, in particular the general part of the commercial companies code, limited liability companies and corporations. Since commercial companies are legal persons that carry out a commercial activity and operate in the market, knowledge of their legal regime has enormous practical relevance in the exercise of legal professions.

1. Notion of commercial company and similar figures. 2. Types of commercial companies. 3. The incorporation of commercial companies. 4. Personality and capacity of commercial companies. 5. Sociality. 6.Capital, equity, profits and reserves. 7. Social resolutions. 8. Extinction of commercial companies: dissolution and liquidation.

The teaching of the curricular unit is based on a model of theoretical exposition of the syllabus, which is later complemented with a practical aspect consisting of the analysis and interpretation of jurisprudence and the resolution of hypothetical situations but inspired by real life. For their continuous assessment, students take 1 or 2 written tests (60%), with assessment elements also being participation in scientific events organized by the faculty, attendance, oral participation and the quality of written expression (40%) .
Failure to attend 70% of theoretical and practical classes is an objective criterion for excluding the student from continuous assessment, and may even make it impossible for them to take the continuous assessment test or, if applicable, the second continuous assessment test. In the absence of continuous assessment, the student may take the appeal exam.

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