International Financial Law
Key benefits
- Wide-ranging selection of modules, many unique in this area, covering fields which are major practice areas in global and regional law firms in major financial centres and with investment banks.
- It will give you an in-depth understanding of many of the cutting-edge transactions in this field, as well as the volume of anticipated regulatory law now being enacted in the UK, EU and the US in response to the financial market crisis of 2008. It will also cover allied legal disciplines strongly related to these topics, such as comparative corporate insolvency.
- The International Financial Law pathway consists of modules providing you with both the necessary legal knowledge and practical orientation necessary to practice in this field. While providing and expecting the highest level of academic rigour many of the modules will seek to train you to problem solve and advise as practitioners in the global law firms or as investment banking counsel. The teaching in this area will be strongly international in outlook, in addition to being practice-oriented and intellectually challenging.
Additional Information
Careers
This specialist LLM pathway focuses on the law affecting the major transactions in the vast global financial markets located in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Frankfurt, Shanghai and other centres.
It will be of use to those who wish to practice with one of the global law firms in the global financial centres or with any of their global offices or large regional law firms or with one of the global investment banks or hedge funds or major multinationals participating in the financial markets or with the major regulators in major jurisdictions.
To follow the International Financial Law pathway, you must first apply for the General LLM at King's. After enrolment you will select your pathway modules.
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