294.14 sec. 001 - Structuring and Negotiating Complex Financial Transactions (Fall 2025)
Instructor: Allan T Marks (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only | profile)
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Units: 1
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Meetings:
F 3:10 PM - 6:10 PM
Location: Law 170
On 2025-08-22
Sa 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Law 170
On 2025-08-23
F 3:10 PM - 6:10 PM
Location: Law 170
On 2025-09-05
Sa 09:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Law 170
On 2025-09-06
Course End: September 06, 2025
Class Number: 32037
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 60
As of: 04/04 07:13 AM
This course explores key issues in structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex financial transactions within their broader commercial, economic, and regulatory contexts. The course introduces students pragmatically to basic legal and financial concepts and then applies them to a range of transactions. The course balances the theory, policy, and practice of financial transactions and explores how sophisticated contracts and legal structures can be used to manage risk, align investor goals, and create value.
The format is mainly a conversational lecture, with in-class student participation expected, plus a practical take-home drafting exercise. The course is a useful introduction to foundational topics often encountered by lawyers involved in corporate and financial transactions, securities, banking, institutional investing, real estate, and financial regulation.
The course is taught by Allan Marks. He has taught at UC Berkeley for over 15 years at both Berkeley Law and (previously) the Haas School of Business. He also teaches Energy & Infrastructure Finance at UCLA Law School and is a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a joint center of the law and climate schools at Columbia University. As a lawyer at Milbank LLP for over 30 years, a partner in the firm’s Global Project, Energy & Infrastructure Finance group, and member a of the Private Equity, Renewable Energy, Latin America, and Global Risk & National Security practices, he handled complex transactions in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and Europe with an aggregate value of over $100 billion. His practice encompassed project finance and development, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, acquisition finance, capital markets, and private placements, international and cross-border business transactions, public-private partnerships, joint ventures, restructurings, banking and regulatory matters.
We also have special academic rules for these condensed courses:
-Students must attend each course session and cannot attend any course session remotely (even for illness or emergency situations).
-The Registrar’s Office will drop a student who does not attend each course session.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
Exam Notes: (None) Series of papers or assignments throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Business Law
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