Eligibility and Course Requirements
Eligibility for the Transactional Law and Skills Certificate begins with a formal submission (>>click here). Students must also contact Professor Payne to discuss course selection and other matters. There are no other prerequisites to becoming eligible to receive a Certificate, only course requirements for its receipt.
Note: Contract Drafting is a prerequisite for Deal Skills, and those two courses are prerequisites for most of the capstone courses and field placements that count as a capstone course. Check the prerequisites for any capstone course you want to take because it may have additional prerequisites.
Required Courses
- Accounting in Action or Analytical Methods (can be waived if equivalent course previously taken)
- Business Associations
- Contract Drafting
- Corporate Finance
- Deal Skills
- Fundamentals of Income Taxation
- Federal Income Tax: Corporations or Federal Income Tax: Partnerships (Fundamentals of Income Taxation is a prerequisite unless waived by the professor.)
- Capstone course or an approved field placement
Capstone Courses
- Commercial Lending Transactions
- Commercial Real Estate Transactions Workshop
- Complex Restructurings and Distressed Acquisitions
- The General Counsel in Negotiated Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions Workshop
- Negotiated Corporate Transactions
- Private Equity
- Transactional Intellectual Property Law Practice
- Venture Capital
Field Placement - Contract Drafting and Deal Skills are prerequisites for a field placement to qualify as a Capstone Course fulfilling the Certificate requirement. (Not all of these placements are available each semester. Please check with Professor Shalf for an updated list.)
- Coca Cola
- Federal Reserve Bank
- GE Energy
- Internal Revenue Service
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Scientific Atlanta (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cisco Systems, Inc.)
- UCB, Inc.
Electives - Students may consider taking the following electives in addition to the courses required for the Certificate.
- Bankruptcy
- Banking Law
- Commercial Real Estate
- Commercial Law: Sales
- Copyright Law
- Corporate Crimes
- Deferred Compensation
- Economic Analysis of Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Employment Law
- Franchise Law
- Intellectual Property
- International Business Transactions
- International Tax and Business
- Intellectual Property
- International Tax
- International Tax Topics (Seminar)
- International Trade Law
- Labor Law
- Licensing
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Negotiation
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Loan Restructuring (Seminar)
- Regulation of Nonprofit Organizations
- Secured Transactions
- Securities Regulation
- Trademark Law
- Worker’s Compensation