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30 September 2023
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31 March 2024
34 weeks
8-10 hours per week
₹55000
EBC Learning
CII

The programme is an advanced programme covering five essential branches of corporate law practice — M&A, capital market and PE transaction, insolvency and competition law. If you understand the basics of company law and wish to become a corporate lawyer, this programme has covered all bases.

The path contains 10 courses given below.

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Prerequisites

PROGRAMME

Course List

1
ACL3: 15. Introducing Due Diligence Card Image

ACL3: 15. Introducing Due Diligence

Conducting due diligence is the bread and butter for a transactional lawyer. This course will provide you with an introduction to the process and you will learn to prepare a due diligence report.
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23 September 2023 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 16. Securities

The knowledge of what a security is and what are the different types of securities is the starting point of becoming a transactional lawyer. This course will empower you to think like a transactional lawyer and appreciate the legal complexities while dealing with different kinds of securities.
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28 October 2023 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 17. Deal Process

The course looks at the deal process for raising funds for a company. It introduces the students to concepts like the valuation of a company, how to prepare a pitch book, what are the different kinds of funds and from whom can funds be raised.
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4 November 2023 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 20. Mergers and Amalgamations Card Image

ACL3: 20. Mergers and Amalgamations

This course covers various aspects of M&A including structuring of an M&A transaction, emerging trends and associated tax implications.
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18 November 2023 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 18. Private Equity and Venture Capital Card Image

ACL3: 18. Private Equity and Venture Capital

The course is a transactions guide to raising capital with Private Equity and Venture Capital. The course will also look at how a private company raises money, borrows funds and also FDI.
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23 December 2023 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 19. Capital Markets

You will learn A-Z about going public. The course will cover working on DRHP from the side of all stakeholders. The course also looks at varieties of issues and the restructuring of listed companies.
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20 January 2024 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 21. Competition Economics

Learn about the different nuances of economics in relation to competition law.
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14 April 2024 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 22. Competition Law Card Image

ACL3: 22. Competition Law

By regulating corporate anti-competitive behaviour, competition law aims to maintain market competition. In this course, we study the Competition Act, 2002 in light of building anti-trust practice of your own.
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14 April 2024 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 23. Insolvency Law Card Image

ACL3: 23. Insolvency Law

Often business entities find it difficult to file an insolvency application before the NCLT. This intense course on IBC Practice covers various aspects of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, including the filing procedure of insolvency applications before the NCLT.
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4 May 2024 - 30 September 2024

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ACL3: 24. Corporate Assets Valuation under the IBC Card Image

ACL3: 24. Corporate Assets Valuation under the IBC

Learn how to conduct corporate valuations in an IBC scenario. The course covers several valuation approaches like Market Approach, Income Approach, Asset Approach, etc.
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25 May 2024 - 30 September 2024

What's included?

 

Who Should Take This Course?

Legal professionals and students: The team at EBC Learning has designed this programme to enable a young professional or a student to pursue a career in transaction practice. The programme deals with all aspects of transaction-M&A, PE, VC, capital markets, competition law and IBC. It is primarily a professional course, however, law students can take the programme early on in their career to get an edge over others and also to excel in their internships and to bag a PPO in a law firm. The course speakers are highly qualified practitioners who can help one build their corporate law practice. It is a practice-oriented programme that you won’t get exposed to as a law student in a law school. Law students who want to kickstart their journey as transactional lawyers and looking for internships in corporate teams to increase prospects of pre-placement offers or placements must enrol in this programme.

For a young professional, it may be very daunting to be part of the transaction team, understand all the legal jargon, follow the deal negotiations, understand the nitty-gritty of all the regulations and the practical application of the law and be an efficient team member. This course is designed to help young professionals bridge the gap between what is taught in school and what is required of them as young professionals. This course would give you an edge over your peers.

Legal professionals practising any other branch of law may also take this course to re-orient themselves in corporate law. This course will provide you with the necessary tools and connections to start and grow your corporate practice or switch to becoming a transactional lawyer with a law firm.

Corporate teams and in-house counsels: Given the rapid change in compliance requirements, very often in-house counsels of corporations are unable to get proper exposure and the necessary training in transaction matters and get a holistic view. In-person re-training and upskilling can prove costly and often requires time off work. An online course with classes on weekends is the ideal solution. Business owners can use this course to train their teams in corporate law matters. In the programme, you also make valuable connections with professionals across India, which can be a crucial resource in times of need.

How Should One Approach This Course?

We have designed the course to make it as flexible as possible so that you may easily fit it into your schedule. The programme includes videos, texts and live lectures. To make the most of the programme, one is expected to watch the videos, and read the texts during the week — i.e before attending class on the weekend. In this way, you may watch and understand all the content at your leisure during the week and attend practical workshop-like classes on weekends.

Do note that you may find it hard to follow the workshop-like classes in case you have not pre-watched the videos that are a part of each course and read the pre-reading materials. The course also requires writing pre-class notes where you can comment on the readings and videos. The instructor uses these notes to address your queries in class.

Mode of Instruction & Class Timings

The live sessions will be conducted online, and courses will be available on the EBC Learning platform (ebclearning.com).

Session Timings: Afternoon & Evening Sessions on Saturdays.

 

E-Books Access from EBC Reader

Companies Act Company Law Competition Law Contract
Precedents Insolvency DD Entrepreneurs
FDI Business Opportunity Insider Trading Insolvency
Merger Control Partnership Reform Decade Fictions
Internships Conveyancing IBC Bare Act Competition Bare Act
Drafting Contracts

 

 

Print Books Posted to Learners

Entrepreneurs Business Opportunity DD Competition Law
IBC Bare Act IBC Bare Act

Instructors

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Abhishek Sharma

Partner, Dentons LinkLegal

Abhishek Sharma has over 13 years of experience in handling disputes concerning the aviation sector (including airports) and civil and commercial disputes in various fora, including the Supreme Court of India. Previously, he was an associate in the law chambers of Mr Arun Jaitley, Senior Advocate.

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Aditya Singh Chandel

Partner, AZB & Partners

Aditya Singh Chandel has over 19 years of experience and specialises in Direct and Indirect Taxation, Income Tax Laws, International Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Foreign Trade Policy and Customs Law.

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Amrish Garg

Co-Founder, Finvox Analytics

Amrish is a CA, CFA and a Registered Valuer with 12+ years of experience in fundraising, transaction support services, business valuations, purchase price allocation and complex instruments valuations.

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Avinash Sharma

AOR, Supreme Court

Avinash Sharma is an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India with 17+ years experience in Competition, Litigation and Arbitration. He has successfully settled over 70 cases while acting as a DHCLSC Mediator.

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Dr Charu Mathur

Instructor, EBC Learning & AOR, Supreme Court

Dr Charu Mathur is an Advocate on Record with the Supreme Court of India. She has over 20+ years of rich and diverse expertise in corporate, commercial, civil, criminal and constitutional law matters.

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Dr Pratima Narayan

Advocate & Mediator, Co-founder, Techlawlogi Consulting LLP

Dr Pratima Narayan has served the legal academia for over 20 years as a visiting faculty at various reputed law schools and business schools. Her expertise lies in areas of commercial contracts, consumer law, e-commerce and Intellectual Property Rights.

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Dr Yugank Goyal

Associate Professor, FLAME University

Dr Yugank Goyal is an Associate Professor of Public Policy. Earlier he taught at Jindal Global Law School. His tryst with the Economics of Competition Law began while studying Masters at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where later, he also pursued his PhD in law and economics.

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Gandharv Jain

Co-Founder, Finvox Analytics

Gandharv Jain is a CA, CPA (USA), Registered Valuer and an Investment Banker with 15+ years of experience in conducting business valuations, raising funds for clients and structuring corporate transactions in compliance with foreign exchange laws.

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Juhi Roy

Partner, Petkar Legal

Juhi Roy has previously worked as a Senior Associate in the General Corporate team of Argus Partners, Kolkata. She has also worked with Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, Mumbai; Network 18 Media and Investments Limited, Mumbai; Wadia Ghandy & Co., Mumbai; and SA Partners, Mumbai.

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Ketan Mukhija

Partner, Dentons LinkLegal

Ketan has over 17 years of extensive experience in corporate restructurings, investment transactions, private equity, banking and finance, energy and infrastructure, real estate, telecommunications, and capital markets.

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CERTIFICATE & RECOMMENDATION LETTER

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At the end of most online courses, you get a certificate. But certificates from different platforms mean different things. How do you convince your next employer, an institution that you have really learned the skills that you proclaim to have learnt? This is where our recommendation letter comes in. In our recommendation letter, we highlight the strengths of each candidate. What they have accomplished in the course and we vouch for you. So in addition to a certificate at EBC Learning, we offer each student of this course a personalised recommendation letter. We wish you all the very best, always.

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INTERNSHIP & PLACEMENT PARTNERS

Acupro Consulting, Gurgaon, Hyderabad

Acupro Consulting, Gurgaon, Hyderabad

Acupro is an energetic and passionate team of 70+ committed professionals displaying acumen, knowledge and excellence and renders solution oriented advisory and implementation services in the fields of taxation, regulations and accounting.
Combining unparalleled experience and comprehensive capabilities across financial and regulatory matters, Acupro collaborates with clients to help them become financially insightful and legally compliant businesses.
We enhance value for clients by providing innovative solutions by blending domain expertise with analytical rigour, while maintaining an uncompromising focus on quality and by hiring and nurturing high quality professionals with a passion for excellence. We are committed to making a difference to our clients, to our people and to the financial world, and we deliver this difference through the integrity of our efforts and by living our core values.
Acupro caters to a very wide spectrum of prestigious international business houses and noted professionals.

Animesh Sinha & Partners

Animesh Sinha & Partners

Animesh Sinha & Partners (ASP) is a multidisciplinary law firm located from Delhi and works with associate lawyers in most cities in India. The team at asp comprises lawyers who have worked in multiple jurisdictions and previously trained in top law firms. The team is well accustomed with the work culture of international law firms and has extensive experience handling work for large corporate clients. We at asp strongly believe in identifying with the client to tailor our services to serve the objective and interests of the client. We are proud to identify ourselves as a team of lawyers with strong belief in easy accessibility for clients, prompt assignment delivery and availability for advice even after completion of assignments. The emphasis on quality, detailing and clarity is at the core of our belief and we strive to achieve it at all times.

Areté Chambers

Areté Chambers

Areté Chambers is a boutique law firm, with prime focus on cross border litigation and dispute resolution. Areté provides cutting edge pre-litigation advice and also handles global litigation and arbitration across Asia, Africa, the U.K and the U.S. Areté has the exposure of working with an extensive cross-section of clients involved in infrastructure and construction, oil and gas exploration, automobile distribution and financing, hospitality sector, pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply, retail, financing, architecture, amongst others.

The highly committed team aligns itself to the clients' objectives and requirements and is adept at out of the box solutions to intricate and complicated factual and legal issues. The international dispute resolution team is headed by Amit Gupta, a dual-qualified lawyer, educated at Oxford and Columbia Universities.

Finvox Analytics, New York, Singapore, Gurugram

Finvox Analytics, New York, Singapore, Gurugram

A boutique advisory firm offering valuation, transactions, and analytical support services. At Finvox, we have highly seasoned professionals who bring along requisite expertise to advise you on the valuation and transaction matters. The team comprises individuals who are Registered Valuers, Chartered Accountants, CPAs, MBAs and CFA charter holders.
Senior professionals and advisers at Finvox have in the past worked with top global accounting firms, investment banks and research firms. They have advised their clients on numerous transaction situations which include strategic sale/ buy-outs, in-bound and out-bound investments, business restructuring and shareholder disputes. The team have experience in utilizing sophisticated valuation methodologies, which can fulfil even the most complex financial reporting and tax requirements.

LinkLegal, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chinnai

LexCounsel, New Delhi, Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar, Odisha

LexCounsel is a law firm with offices at New Delhi, Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar, Odisha and associate offices across India. The firm provides knowledge-based, effective, business-oriented legal services to its clients. LexCounsel provides comprehensive legal services and solutions to a broad spectrum of domestic and foreign clients.

Their members have substantial expertise in their practice areas and in-depth sector-specific understanding and knowledge to provide customised and highly effective legal advice best suited to their clients’ business needs. The Firm and its members have consistently been recognized and awarded across practice areas and as leading lawyers.

The Firm practices in diverse areas of law including Corporate & Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Education, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Insurance, Labour and Employment, Telecommunications, Satellite and IT, Media and Entertainment, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Taxation and Infrastructure Projects, Energy, Mining, Transportation.

LexCounsel

LinkLegal, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai

With a team of Partners and associate lawyers handpicked from the best institutions and organisations across the country, the Firm provides high quality advice by blending its legal proficiency with deep commercial insight.
The Firm boasts of experts who have substantial experience in their respective practice areas. The Firm provides partner-driven services to clients where lawyers integrate their skills to provide comprehensive legal advice and strategy on complex commercial issues. The Partners at the Firm bring hands on experience and approach in each matter from a strategic perspective. 
The Firm has extensive experience of advising clients in diverse sectors including airports, metro rail and urban transport, roads, ports, real estate, power, aviation, defence, water, waste management, media, information technology, manufacturing, hospitality, telecom, pharmaceutical, healthcare, consumer goods, mining, insurance, securities markets and banking. 
The Firm regularly gets involved in headline transactions and disputes, advising clients on niche and complicated matters spreading across contentious, transactional and advisory space in a range of disciplines and sectors.

Pratap & Co.

Pratap & Co.

Pratap & Co. is a litigation firm that has been involved in diverse fields of laws including Corporate, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Prevention of Money Laundering, Criminal, Matrimonial, Consumer, Cheque Bounce, Civil Suits, Service matters, Narcotics, Arbitration, Commercial Laws, etc. The firm actively represents its clients from all over the country and abroad before multiple fora including the Supreme Court of India, various High Courts across India, all District Courts in NCR, NCLAT, NCLT, NCDRC, NGT, PMLA Authority, DRT, along with various Arbitral Tribunals.

The firm has a wide range of services, including drafting and filing of Special Leave Petitions, Appeals, Transfer Petitions, Writ Petitions, Suits, Complaints, Applications, Legal Notices as well as replies thereto. Pratap & Co. also provides legal consultancy services to its clients in India as well as abroad.

Seven Seas LLP, Delhi, Kolkata, Ranchi, Dehradun, Rotterdam, The Hague, Madrid

Seven Seas LLP, Delhi, Kolkata, Ranchi, Dehradun, European Union

A truly ‘International’ boutique law firm with a growing number of offices in India and a rapidly expanding network of international collaborators, Seven Seas Partners is a fast growing consortium of prominent legal experts from across the planet, that was created with the vision to build a platform for our clients who seek international dispute resolution and legal advisory services, that connects them with highly qualified legal experts from around the world.
Through our organically growing réseau, we at Seven Seas Partners endeavor to bring together some of the finest legal minds including internationally qualified attorneys, arbitrators and legal academicians who regularly engage in dispute resolution and advisory services and connect them to our clients.
Our Clientele which comprises of corporations, statutory bodies and other institutions, benefit from our highly qualified and experienced professionals located in multiple countries, who engage regularly across various industries in an array of legal issues ranging from highly complex dispute resolution services to transactional, legal advisory and related regulatory services. With a worldwide network of well connected professionals, Seven Seas Partners has successfully created a niche for itself as a highly specialized group of international law experts, who assist their Clients in inter jurisdictional legal issues by collaborating with lawyers from leading law firms spread across seven seas.

Techlawlogi Consulting LLP, Bengaluru

Techlawlogi Consulting LLP, Bengaluru

Techlawlogi Consulting LLP is a firm with a seamless approach to innovative techniques in legal consultancy and advocacy. The team has vast collective expertise in alternate dispute resolution and innovative legal services focusing on areas of information technology, commercial contracts, information technology and consumer protection law. Techlawlogi advises e-commerce start-ups and platforms on due diligence and legal compliance based on the business models. It provides pragmatic and effective learning to bridge the gap between education and profession/industry. It focuses on technology integration for reforming and strengthening access to justice and advocacy.

UKCA Partners, New Delhi

UKCA Partners, New Delhi

UKCA and Partners LLP has been eminent in providing legal advisory, transactional and advocacy services to its clients in diverse sectors and subjects. The firm assists its clients in Corporate-Commercial Litigation, Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Restructuring, Negotiations along with a whole range of legal services including hearings at courts, arbitration proceedings, client briefings and conferences, opinion writing and guidance, agreement and contract drafting, research work, due diligence and several other related activities.

Vashishtha Law Office

Vashishtha Law Office

Situated at the heart of South Delhi, the Vashishtha Law Office has been a pioneer in the legal realm for providing outstanding, ethical and cost-effective legal services and solutions to their clients from India and across the world. Their expertise lie in various areas of law including Civil Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Family Law, Criminal Law, Immigration Law & Services, Visa Appeals. At Vashishtha Law Office, the team comprises of highly trained and experienced attorneys representing the best and most prestigious institutions of the world.

The team of lawyers/advocates specialise in drafting of legal pleadings, Criminal Defence Trials, Assisting Prosecutions, Civil Suits, Consumer Cases, Injunctions, Matrimonial Suits/Remedies, Corporate Laws, Cyber Laws, Immigration Laws/Consultancy, Intellectual Property Rights, Divorce/Custody Matters etc., Trial/Appellate Jurisdiction, NCLT, NCLAT, Original Jurisdiction of the High Courts and various SLP’s, Appeals (With or without a certificate of appeal) to the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and Mediation and Arbitration.

At Vashishtha Law Office, they work with a motto “Sincerity our pledge”.

FAQs

  • What is EBC Learning?

    EBC Learning is the educational arm of Eastern Book Company, a 80+ year-old company and India’s leading law publisher and provider of legal textbooks, EBC Reader, EBC Webstore, EBC Explorer, Supreme Court Cases (SCC) and SCC Online.
  • Is there any entrance test for enrolment?

    No, admission to the programme is conducted on a rolling basis, and there is no entrance test requirement.
  • What are the minimum technical requirements?

    Students who enrol are expected to have basic knowledge of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and computer applications. Everyone should have a working webcam and microphone (either inbuilt or external). It is advised to have good internet speed. It is important to note that the EBC Learning LMS can be accessed through laptops or desktops via an internet browser such as Google Chrome. The ebclearning.com platform is not compatible with mobile devices.
  • How long is one live session class?

    A live session will be of approximately 60-90 minutes, including time for class discussions and faculty interaction.
  • In addition to the sessions, how many hours of work are required per week?

    A minimum of 8 hours of reading engagement is required. In addition, 2 hours per week would be required to watch Annex-Course video tutorials and solve class assignments.
  • What if I miss a session?

    Live recordings will be made available to you soon after the session. However, you will lose any marks allocated to Class Participation and In-Class Assignments.
  • What is the minimum score to obtain a certificate?

    One must score a minimum of 65% to get receive a certificate in the programme.
  • What happens if I don't score 65%.

    The EBC Learning programmes stand for academic excellence and mastery of the subject. Our team is dedicated to helping the student achieve that mastery. Therefore in order to successfully complete the programme one must score a minimum of 65%. However, in case one does not score a minimum of 65% students can, upon payment of a fee, be admitted to the next cohort of the programme. In limited cases, students can also re-submit their select assignments for re-evaluation.
  • What is the cohort size of the programme?

    We believe in the small group teaching format and so aim to keep the class size small. We would try our best to organise participants into small groups of students.
  • Can I pay the tuition fees on a no-cost EMI basis?

    No
  • How will I be evaluated? Will there be an exam at the end of the programme?

    There will be no end examination. You will be evaluated on a continual basis throughout the programme. You will be evaluated on pre-class assignments, class participation and final assignments for each course.
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