Management and corporate law

The course is divided into four parts, dedicated to Enterprise, Negotiable Instruments-Securities, Commercial Agreements, and Companies, according to the following program: INTRODUCTION. – 1. Commercial law: historical and legal evolution. – Part I. ENTERPRISE. – 2. Notion of enterprise and entrepreneur. – 3. Different categories of entrepreneurs. – 4. Individual-collective entrepreneur and "company"-entrepreneur. – 5. Acquisition of the quality of entrepreneur. – 5.1. Appropriation of enterprise. – 5.2. The begin and the end of the enterprise. – 6. The statute of the commercial entrepreneur. – 6.1. Publicity. – 6.2. Accounting entries. – 6.3. Commercial agency. – 6.4. Regulation of insolvency. – 7. Establishment. – 8. The enterprise and the market. – 8.1. Distinctiveness of the enterprise. – 8.2. Patents and industrial inventions. 8.3. Unfair competition. – 8.4. Misleading advertising. – 8.5. Antitrust law. ‒ Part II. COMPANIES. – 9. Companies. Notion and types. – 10. Partnerships. – 10.1. Società semplice. – 10.2. Società in nome collettivo. – 10.3. Società in accomandita semplice. – 11. Business corporations. – 12. Società per azioni. – 13. Listed companies. – 14. Società a responsabilità limitata. – 15. Società in accomandita per azioni. – 16. Groups of companies – 17. Exit -- 18. Dissolution and liquidation of business corporations. – 19. Mutuality. – 19.1. Co-operatives. – 19.2. Mutual benefit insurance. – 19.3. Co-operation between entrepreneurs. – 20. European Company. – 21. Extraordinary transactions. – 21.1. Transformation. – 21.2. Merger. – 21.3. Split-up. -- Part III. COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS. – 22. General considerations. -- 22.1. Agency contracts. – Part IV. NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AND SECURITIES. – 23. General principles and rules. – 24. Commercial papers.

To successfully attend the course, it is best if the student has acquired sufficient training in Private Law

M. CIAN (a cura di), Manuale di diritto commerciale, VI edizione, Giappichelli, Torino, 2025 (Sezione Quinta: until Cap. 15 included; then only mandato in Cap. 17; Sezione Settima: only Cap. 20, 21 paragrafo I and 22 paragrafo I; Sezione Sedicesima: only Cap. 73 paragrafo IV; Cap. 76). To further analyse, subsequent books are recommended: Option A - G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Diritto commerciale. 1. Diritto dell’impresa, VIII edizione, a cura di M. Campobasso, UTET Giuridica, Torino, 2022. - G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Diritto commerciale. 2. Diritto delle società, XI edizione, a cura di M. Campobasso, UTET Giuridica, Torino, 2024. - G.F. CAMPOBASSO, Diritto commerciale. 3. Contratti. Titoli di credito. Procedure concorsuali, VI edizione, a cura di M. Campobasso, UTET Giuridica, Torino, 2022. Option B - M. CIAN (a cura di), Diritto commerciale. I. Diritto dell’impresa, Giappichelli, Torino, 2024. - M. CIAN (a cura di), Diritto commerciale. III. Diritto delle società, Giappichelli, Torino, 2024. Option C - G. FERRI, Manuale di Diritto commerciale, XVII edizione, UTET Giuridica, Torino, 2023

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The examination is conducted through an oral exam in attendance. The evaluation and the final score of the exam will be implemented on the basis on the following elements: 1. Knowledge and understanding of the main topics and the relative legal framework, applying them on use cases with a simple and correct communication. 2. Knowledge and understanding of secondary topics and simple-problem solving skills, included the purposes of the regulation asked, with appropriate communication and few legal terms. 3. Knowledge and understanding of many secondary topics, answering questions that imply complex legal reasoning and connections as well distinctions between similar legal topics. Very complex communication skills and appropriate use of many legal terms. 4. Knowledge and understanding of detail topics, making thorough judgements on complex problems as well as comparisons and distinctions between remote legal topics, with a perfect legal language. - the fulfilment of the elements on 1 allows to obtain a score comprised between 18/30 and 21/30. - the fulfilment of the elements on 2 allows to obtain a score comprised between 22/30 and 25/30. - the fulfilment of the elements on 3 allows to obtain a score comprised between 26/30 and 28/30. - the fulfilment of the elements on 1 allows to obtain a score not less than 29/30.

Frontal lesson Individual e collective exercises Deployment of digital instruments Possible deployment of slides and notes