Corporate and Financial Law LLM

The LLM in Corporate & Financial Law provides a specialist focus on transactions, markets and global regulatory issues. Modern lawyers need to understand the structure and interplay of both corporate and financial law both at domestic and international level.<br/><br/><strong>WHY THIS PROGRAMME</strong><br/><br/><br/>• You will focus on key areas such as the legal framework for debt and equity finance, corporate governance and financial regulation.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• The programme covers both the private law focus on the structuring of individual transactions, and the public law focus on the regulation of financial institutions and markets.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• You will be taught by a team of academics with practical experience of transactions and regulatory issues.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• You will benefit from the combined experience of a lecturing team representing a rich diversity of professional and international backgrounds. Theorists and practitioners, litigators and consultants, our lecturers come from more than half-a-dozen countries, including Greece, Spain, UK and South Africa.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• The programme is supported by excellent facilities, including two dedicated law libraries and extensive online resources.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• The programme covers aspects of UK, EU and international law.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Law at Glasgow is ranked 4th in the UK by the Good University Guide 2026 and 8th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2026.<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>PROGRAMME STRUCTURE</strong><br/><br/>You will take six courses and submit a dissertation as falling within the area. Courses are delivered through a blend of lectures and seminar-style teaching.<br/><br/>You are required to take at least five core courses and one optional course. The optional course can be chosen from the core course list or other courses within the School of Laws LLM portfolio. Please note, enrolment on courses is subject to availability and timetabling.<br/><br/>For the dissertation, you can choose between a written dissertation or a collaborative dissertation research project with a partner organisation. Please note, the collaborative dissertation option is subject to availability.<br/><br/><strong>Core courses</strong><br/>Banking Regulation<br/>Climate Change Law and Governance<br/>Commercial Insurance Law<br/>Corporate Finance<br/>Corporate Governance<br/>FinTech Law and Regulation <br/>International Capital Markets Law<br/>International Insolvency Law<br/>International Investment Law<br/>International Merger Control<br/>International Sales and Finance<br/>Law and Sustainable Finance<br/>The Law of Secured Finance<br/><br/><strong>Dissertation</strong><br/>LLM Dissertation or Collaborative LLM dissertation<br/><br/><strong>CAREER PROSPECTS</strong><br/><br/>The Corporate & Financial Law LLM offers a wealth of courses that will equip you with the necessary theoretical knowledge to develop a successful career in this field.<br/><br/>Most of our courses include perspectives on professional practice and some also include experiential learning activities, such as analysis of case studies. These activities are designed to consolidate your understanding of key theoretical concepts by putting them into practice in real-world contexts, and to give you practical experience with documents, drafting skills and analytical frameworks used in a professional environment.