Universität Wien

040104 UK Law of Corporate Groups (2021W)

2.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
REMOTE
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Exams:
DO 09.12.2021 16:45 Digital
DO 16.12.2021 16:45 Digital

  • Thursday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital
  • Thursday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course provides students with an overview of the legal principles relevant to a corporate group and deals with specific problems raised by corporate mergers from a legal point of view. In particular, questions are asked about the permissibility and the legal prerequisites for the formation of certain mergers, about the effects of a group on the constitution of the companies involved in it, about necessary legal precautions for the protection of (minority) shareholders, creditors and investors as well as about participation rights of the employees working in a group. Starting with a presentation of the various group definitions and concepts in Austrian law, the fundamentals of group formation and special aspects of the conclusion of inter-company agreements are discussed. Following on from this, practical issues such as group-specific features of corporate organisation, the role of corporate bodies in a group, questions of liability and legal enforcement in a group as well as labour law aspects of group law are dealt with.
Method:

Digital lecture via the Moodle platform (the course is held in German).
The course materials for the individual course units are made available to the students according to the specified time and topic schedule of the course (available in Moodle), so that the chosen structure and the desired content of the course can be ensured. Only after the initial uploading of the respective documents can the students access them at any time. In any case, the documents made available remain online until the end of the course.

At the end of the course, students should have in-depth knowledge of issues relevant to group law and be able to apply this knowledge to practical cases.

Assessment and permitted materials

Students can achieve a total of 40 points in the course: 36 points are awarded in the two digital online examinations via the Moodle platform (written open book examination with open questions; duration 45 minutes each), 4 points can be obtained through participation in the home learning units.
Grade key for the course: from 21 points grade 4, from 26 points grade 3, from 31 points grade 2, from 36 points grade 1.

Copying from the Internet or from textbooks in the case of digital online examinations (open-book examinations) and the use of an annotated law text or labelled post-its in the case of attendance examinations is deemed to be unauthorised. Information on the use of unauthorised aids can also be found at https://privatrecht.univie.ac.at/service-news/schummeln/.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Students can achieve a total of 40 points in the course: 36 points are awarded in the two digital online examinations via the Moodle platform (written open book examination with open questions; duration 45 minutes each), 4 points can be obtained through participation in the home learning units.
- Grade key for the course: from 21 points grade 4, from 26 points grade 3, from 31 points grade 2, from 36 points grade 1.
Copying from the Internet or from textbooks in the case of digital online examinations (open-book examinations) and the use of an annotated law text or labelled post-its in the case of attendance examinations is deemed to be unauthorised. Information on the use of unauthorised aids can also be found at https://privatrecht.univie.ac.at/service-news/schummeln/.

Examination topics

At the beginning of the course, the students are precisely informed of the specific teaching materials to be used for the acquisition of the course material: These are course scripts, textbooks and codes as well as digital lecture slides (PP presentation), which are made available online via the Moodle platform.

Reading list

Knauder/Ruhm/Sima, Konzernrecht (2. Auflage), 2010 (Script LexisNexis)
Code of Business Law (current edition)
Further literature:
• Haberer/Krejci (Hrsg), Konzernrecht (2016)
• Knauder, Grundfragen zum Konzernrecht, in Ruhm/Kerbl/Bernwieser (Hrsg), Der Konzern im Gesellschafts- und Steuerrecht (2021)
• Knauder/Sima, Konzernrecht, in Hausmaninger/Gratzl/Justich (Hrsg), Handbuch zur Aktiengesellschaft (2. Auflage, 2017)

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