CRI223 | Banking Law in practice – Project Finance and Debt Capital Markets.

How does this course relate to the programme curriculum: Does it develop on a prior course in the programme or is it a foundational or standalone course?

This is an advanced banking course, for students who have completed courses on Banking Laws, Transfer of Property Laws, Corporate Laws, and Contracts Laws.

Describe how you have approached the course. What have you included/excluded and why? Choice of materials: primary or secondary readings / case law;

Primary materials will be drafts of loan documents, concession agreements, project documents sourced from public domain. Case law based reading materials will be primarily used in the later sessions, as the students are expected to have already undertaken foundational courses on the principal laws.

The relevant statutes which will be dealt with are Banking Regulation Act, 1949, Contracts Act, 1872, Companies Act, 2013, Transfer of Property, 1882, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, and Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999. The sub-regulations which may be relevant such RBI regulations on Loan and Advances, FEMA regulations on External Commercial Debt, SEBI Regulations on debt capital markets, will also be referred to as necessary.

Describe your pedagogical method: lectures, Socratic discussion, seminar style discussion, response papers or group work, field work.

The proposed pedagogical method is lectures and exercises.