17234 - Financial Markets Law

Academic Year 2018/2019

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide a critical overview of the subject with particular reference to investment firms, to investment services, to collective fund management, to issues for general subscriptions and to the provisions regulating quoted public companies. The course will also consider banking contracts governed by the civil code.

Course contents

(9 credits): financial intermediation (introduction); issues for general subsciptions; investment firms and investment services; the institutional investor; provisions regulating quoted public companies; banking contracts governed by the civil code.

(7 credits): financial intermediation (introduction); issues for general subsciptions; investment firms and investment services; the institutional investor; provisions regulating quoted public companies.

Readings/Bibliography

(9 credits): R. Costi, Il mercato mobiliare, last edition, 2018, Giappichelli, Torino (the whole text); G.F. Campobasso, Diritto commerciale, UTET, Torino, volume 3 (last edition), limited to pages on banking contracts - 142 inclusive.

(7 credits): R. Costi, Il mercato mobiliare, last edition, 2018, Giappichelli, Torino (the whole text).

Teaching methods

Lessons are taken by the Professor. The course will be held in the second semester. Students will only be able to take the examination once they have passed the private law examination.

Assessment methods

Oral examination at the end of the course.

Teaching tools

The Civil code and the relevant laws and, in particular, the Financial intermediaries and listed companies laws (Testo unico delle disposizioni in materia di intermediazione finanziaria [d. lgs. 24 febbraio 1998, n. 58])

Office hours

See the website of Rolandino Guido Guidotti

See the website of Sergio Gilotta