LGLS 4020 - Business Law for Entrepreneurs

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: None.
Requirements: Must meet RCB upper division course requirements and 45 semester hours or consent of instructor.

Description
This course will focus on the legal issues that entrepreneurs face when starting and running a business in the global economy. Throughout the course we will focus on various substantive practical areas of law that most impact entrepreneurs such as: establishing ownership structure, related shareholder or membership agreements, other documents which impact ownership structure, sales and lease contracts, loan agreements, raising capital and securities law compliance, venture capital negotiations and agreements, the role of the board of directors, potential roles for an advisory board, debtor-creditor relations, employment law, and Intellectual Property Law.