LAW 739: International Business Transactions
This course is intended to prepare students to represent business clients in a variety of transactions having international elements. Through the careful analysis of these problems, the principles central to the successful structuring of international business transactions will be developed. The problems will involve sales of goods abroad, directly and through distributorships; financing of international sales; export regulation, including U.S. government licensing of sensitive technology, anti-boycott regulations, bribery, and restrictions on trade in services; transfers of technology, particularly the licensing and protection of intellectual property; foreign direct investment, notably risk analysis, investment in the EU, the role of trade agreements such as NAFTA, project finance, protection against threats to established investments and operating businesses, and the handling of Third World debt; and appropriate form of entity for investment and for conducting operations abroad and in the U.S. [3]
