If you are in Singapore on Monday & Tuesday and need to swot up this 2 day workshop might be a good option
The Singapore Academy of Law write:
The outbreak of the financial market crisis has sent shock waves to the global real economy. Many companies and individuals have suffered heavy losses in their hedging strategies and investment portfolios. Derivatives and structured instruments have played a significant role in this major upheaval. This crisis reminds us of the importance of having a good grasp of core financial concepts and an understanding of new financial instruments in today’s world. This 2-day intensive finance workshop is designed for legal professionals to have a good intuitive understanding of the following two fields of finance that are relevant to the majority of legal professionals:
• Business valuation
• Derivatives and complex financial instruments
This is an application-oriented course that makes use of case studies to illustrate key concepts. Class size for this programme will be strictly capped to tutorial group size to enable optimal interaction between attendees and the speaker.
Highly Recommended for:
• Transactional lawyers, in particular those practising in the fields of M&A; derivative finance; investment advisory; corporate restructuring; private equity, hedge fund and venture capital advisory
• Litigation lawyers with significant volume of finance-related dispute resolution work
• In-house counsel, especially those working in financial institutions, private equity, hedge fund and venture capital firms, and sovereign wealth funds
• Legal service officers involved in finance-related litigation/appellate work and financial policy-making
• Academics teaching in corporate finance-related fields
For further information and to register go to
https://www2.sal.org.sg/SeriesDetail.aspx?seriesid=0d29af41-2add-dd11-9fd4-00145e301892
