LL.M. in Corporate & Financial Law

(Blended Learning Program)

from India's # 1 Law School**- Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)

Litigation Professionals, Legal Professionals working in Law Firms, Fresh Law Graduates, Legal Professionals working in legal department in corporate, Academic or Research Professionals, Legal Professionals in Government roles.

• Bachelor’s degree in Law; LL.B. 3/5 year graduates and final year candidates may apply.
• Students who have a valid score for other exams like LSAT India 2021, CLAT PG 2021, DU LLM 2021 or LSAT International 2018,19,20,21 at the time of application form submission, then you need not appear for Online JSAT-LAW exam.

The selection process is completely online. Following are the key steps in the application process:

• Step 1: Submit the application form
• Step 2: Online entrance examination (JSAT-LAW) or other eligibility tests as mentioned above. Review and shortlisting of candidates on the basis of test, SoP, resume, and telephonic interview.
• Step 3: Shortlisted candidates receive offer letter.

Following are the unique features of this LL.M. Program:

·  Cutting-edge curriculum developed by academics, industry professionals & regulators

·  Comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the management and control of companies to achieve synergy of financial growth, health, and stability

·  Focus on legal, regulatory, and economic challenges faced by companies

·  Contemporary and cutting-edge corporate research opportunities through our core and specialized courses and webinars

·  Skill-based learning approach equips students to apply principles in the context of corporate and financial transactions

Following are the Key Learnings from this LL.M. Program:

·  Critically analyze business opportunities, legal statutes and cases, and strategic business decisions

·  Understand the corporate legal environment procedures, taught by faculty members who have first-hand industry experience

·  Interpret, assimilate, and draft commercial contracts

·  Identify key issues in M&A, due diligence and risk assessment of corporate transactions

·  Review foreign investment laws, compare and contrast them with Indian investment laws, and analyse different investment strategies

·  Negotiate and draft key corporate transaction documents such as due diligence reports and terms sheets

·  Practice before specialized regulatory bodies such as the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Competition Commission of India and the National Company Law Tribunals

Post successful completion of this program, you will get an LL.M. degree from Jindal Global Law School (JGLS). 

Overall, this program will have video content broken down into small easy-to-complete segments that you can watch on the go-across devices. The remaining hours of engagement will be a mix of industry case studies, live instructor sessions, mentoring sessions and online and offline meetups.

You will need to spend around 20+ hours per week in terms of asynchronous learning, live sessions & assessments. 

We would also recommend you to put around 5-7 hours per week  in terms of your research and library work to get optimum results and learning.

You can learn this program from any city in India and abroad.

This LL.M. program through blended learning is specifically designed for working professionals. 

The curriculum is developed by the best of Faculty Members from JGLS, with special inputs by industry experts & regulators. This makes our program extremely relevant to working law professionals.

The well designed curriculum, helps the students in following ways:

Students enrolled in the program would master the art of critical reasoning and will gain a comprehensive perspective into companies and conglomerates. Through a detailed study of company law, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), banking, corporate insolvency, and competition regulation, the program enables students to appreciate and deal with issues surrounding cross-border corporate and financial transactions.

Through faculty members with hands-on industry experience, the program will provide students with an insight into the internal workings of a corporate environment. Each course is tailor-made to bring students at par with the mindset, rigor, and demands of such an environment. The course modules range from fundamentals of commercial legal research to specialized modules dealing with risk assessment in transactions. Students will learn from a broadened approach to law, with traditional approaches complementing the non-traditional, and Indian legal practice complementing international best practices. This approach ensures that students graduate with a holistic understanding to help them become the finest of legal minds. 

This LL.M. program encourages inter-disciplinary learning between ‘corporate laws’ and 'financial and economic laws’. We provide a unique opportunity for students to understand various modes of investment, associated risk, decision making process and underlying challenges and impediments. It will help the students in understanding restructuring, risk and return, M&A, etc. for financial stability of companies.

Along with it, our Support Services, Career Assistance, and Live Sessions make it a classroom like experience, which no one else in the market can offer.

The faculty members of the LL.M. program have got an excellent blend of following the credentials:

Strong academic pedagogy: The faculty members have done their education in law - bachelors, masters and in some of the cases doctorates from the best of universities in India and abroad.

Rich Industry Experience: All the faculty members have more than a decade experience in the industry. The experience is rich & diverse in terms of working with top notch corporate, corporate legal firms, government, judiciary, publications, research papers in India & around the world.

Extensive Foreign Exposure: Almost all of the faculty members have got an extensive foreign exposure in terms of their education and industry practice.

Note: 

Detailed Profile of the Faculty Members: To go through the detailed profile of the faculty members, request you to visit the World Class Faculty section on this webpage and click on the arrow mark given on the right bottom of their photographs.

Dissertation : The Dissertation would be a 8 weeks course. The project would be from across different areas & industries. The topic for the project has to be approved by the JGLS dissertation committee. The project would be done under the guidance of a mentor having rich industry experience. It would help you apply one or more concepts learnt during the entire LL.M. program. This experience would thus equip the learners to take up any such challenging project in the corporate or legal firms in the future.

Industry Case Studies:

Our programs have a strong experiential component that will prepare you to apply your learning in the job.  Learn - Experience - Apply.  Case Studies across industries will help you to experience real-life challenges in the field of Corporate & Financial Law. Practical experience that you would gain here, would certainly help you to advance in your career. 

Live Sessions & Classroom Experiences provide the opportunities for networking with legal experts and fellow law professionals.

Apart from that every quarter, networking events called upGrad Base Camps are conducted to facilitate interaction among the peers and also with the legal experts.

• upGrad buddy: Your upGrad buddy will help personalize your learning experience by periodically engaging with you to ensure you are on track with upcoming deadlines, offer guidance, resolve non-academic queries, and lend a helping hand wherever required.
• Student Support Team: Student support is available 7 days a week, 24*7. You can write to us via studentsupport@upgrad.com or for urgent queries use the " Talk to Us" option on the learn platform.
  You can drop an email on studentsupport@upgrad.com and expect a response within 24 hours. For any urgent queries, please click on the Call Back button on the learning platform and our team will reach out to you within 2 working hours.
• Discussion Forums: Extensive academic support through the Discussion Forum. Just like in a university, your batch-mates will help you with any academic queries. This will happen via the Discussion Forum.
• Doubt Resolution: Other than your peers, you also have TAs (Teaching Associates) for any academic query. Your academic queries will be resolved by the Faculty and TAs in 36-48 hours. These queries will also be resolved via the discussion forum only.
• Career Mentor: A career mentor to help you get ready from career perspective in terms of building your resume and LinkedIn profile, mock interviews, company specific preparations etc.

Following are the career preparations & mentoring services provided by upGrad:

• Resume review: Obtain specific, personalized inputs on your resume structure and content.
• Build LinkedIn Profile: Build your LinkedIn Profile, in order to attract potential recruiters
• Personalized Industry Mentorship: Get mentored on the career front by an experienced Legal Professional
• Career Mentor: A dedicated career mentor to monitor & guide you on your career transition journey
• Mock Interviews & Just-In-Time-Interviews: Get company and role-specific preparation with mock interviews right before your actual interviews
• Company Specific Preparation: Get company specific guidance to ensure you're interview-ready for the company of your choice.

Following are the career opportunities  services provided by upGrad:

• upGrad Job Fairs: Regular hiring drives in major cities across India, giving you the opportunity to interview with upGrad's hiring partners.
• Job Opportunities Portal: Gain exclusive access to upGrad's job openings each quarter.
• Continued Career Support: Access our continued career support, even after completion of the program.

You need to pay ₹ 25,000/- to block your seat.

Yes, now you can pay the tuition fees with 'No Cost EMI' option. We also have other EMI options, for paying as per your convenience.

In order to facilitate the learners to pay the tuition fees in equal monthly instalments, we have tied up with various loan providers.

Please refer to the Tuition Fee section on this webpage for more details.

Refund Policy: 

• Once the learner has made partial or full payment of the Program fee and wants to withdraw his admission from the Program, learner has to raise a refund request through ‘My Applications’ page on our website www.upgrad.com or to the University and completing the entire refund application process within the deadlines as set out more particularly in ‘Table-A’ below.
• For the cases where refund applications are accepted, the timelines for the refund application would be calculated from the formally notified last date of admission
• Learner can request for a refund for the Program fee, as per the timelines given below in ‘Table-A’.
• The eligibility of the refund amount will be based on the slabs as specified below in ‘Table-A’ and the date on which the fully completed application was received. The percentage of refund as mentioned below in ‘Table-A’ shall be calculated on the total amount paid by the learner towards the Program fee as on the date of refund request.

TABLE-A

• In case a learner has raised a request for a refund and is eligible for the refund as per Sr. No. 2 of Table-A mentioned above, such learner will be refunded the amount as specified in the slab subject to a deduction of Rs. 1,000/- towards processing fee.
• In the event where a learner has opted for a loan option from a credit facility provider, to pay the Program fee, in such cases, the learner will have to comply with the policies of such credit facility provider, i.e., pay upfront, the applicable loan cancellation charges levied by credit facility provider, post which the loan will be cancelled and the EMIs deducted shall be refunded as per the eligibility mentioned in ‘Table-A’.
• The refund for an eligible request learner shall be processed within 30 working days from the date of receipt of the duly completed refund form if the request is raised as per Point No. 1 of the Refund Policy.
• This ‘Refund Policy’ is as per the guidelines prescribed by University Grants Commission (UGC) and the University and upGrad reserves the right to change the Policy based on the changes made by UGC in future. Please check this Policy periodically for changes.

Deferral Policy: 

• There is no deferral policy for this program.

No cost EMI is available on credit cards from all major banks (American Express, Bank of Baroda, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, RBL Bank, Standard Chartered, Axis Bank, Yes Bank) 

If you are availing 0% credit card EMI, upGrad will not charge any processing fees or down payment for these transactions. Your bank may levy GST or other taxes on the interest component of the EMI. 

Certain banks charge nominal processing fees between INR 99 - 500 on 0% Credit Card EMI transaction. If charged will be billed in the first repayment installment. 

Only the Indian bank Credit cards can be used. But you can pay the amount using the Credit card option in one shot / part payments and later you can convert into EMI from your respective bank. The tenures and interest charged will depend on your bank. upGrad will not charge any processing fees or down payment for these transactions, this will be purely between you and your bank. 

Yes, there will be additional charges to the extent of interest paid by the upGrad to the bank, you will be refunded only Principal amount, i.e. the amount actually deducted/blocked from your card. This deduction will be in addition to the amount mentioned in the refund policy shared with your offer letter. 

You can pay the amount using the Credit card option in one shot / part payments and later you can convert into EMI from your respective bank. The tenures and interest charged will depend on your bank. upGrad will not charge any processing fees or down payment for these transactions.

Initially your bank will block the entire amount from your available purchase limit and from your next billing cycle, you will be charged the EMI amount. As you start paying your EMI, your credit limit will be released accordingly. For example, if you have made a payment of ₹100000 on 6-months EMI and your credit limit is ₹200,000 then initially your bank will block your credit limit by ₹100000. After payment of your first month EMI of Rs.15000, the blocked amount will come down to ₹85000.

Your bank will charge you interest. However this interest charge has been provided to you as an upfront discount at the time of your payment, effectively giving you the benefit of a No cost EMI. The total amount paid during the entire EMI tenure to the bank will be equal to the amount to be paid to upGrad. 

Eg. Amount payable to upGrad: INR 405000 

Lets say Amount deducted at the time of transaction: INR 379850 (Principal amount) 

Bank charges interest of 12-15% per annum on INR 379850 

[Note: Interest factor is reducing rate and not Flat rate] 

EMI AMOUNT = INR 33750 x 12 = INR 405000 

effectively , you have taken loan on 379,850 instead of 405,000