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Professional Certificate · Master's level · CPP-42
Drafting Personal and Movable Property Security Interests
For: Lawyers working for banks, credit institutions and companies, credit officers and law firm staff who negotiate or draft guarantees.
Learning outcomes
- Compare the available security interests and recommend the most suitable one for a credit transaction.
- Draft a suretyship, independent guarantee, pledge or charge instrument.
- Distinguish the personal and movable property security interests provided for by the Acte uniforme révisé portant organisation des sûretés (Revised OHADA Uniform Act on Security Interests).
Programme over 4 weeks
| Week | Content |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Acte uniforme révisé portant organisation des sûretés (Lomé, 15 décembre 2010): general structure; choosing a security interest according to the credit transaction. |
| Week 2 | Personal security interests: suretyship, independent guarantees and counter-guarantees; drafting the instruments. |
| Week 3 | Movable property security interests: right of retention, ownership retained or transferred by way of security, pledge, charges; drafting the instruments. |
| Week 4 | Professional simulation: reasoned choice and annotated drafting of a security instrument for a fictitious credit transaction. |
Assessment
Marked professional simulation, assessed against a rubric (70%): annotated drafting of a security instrument for a fictitious credit transaction; online knowledge-check quiz (30%).
The certificate is awarded with a mark of at least 10 out of 20.
Optional: Liens and Choosing Between Guarantees
An additional 1-credit module over 2 weeks (CPP-42C), awarded as a separate certificate; together with this certificate, it makes up the full course component of the original programme.
- Statutory liens (privilèges), studied from the Acte uniforme révisé portant organisation des sûretés.
- Comparison of security interests from the creditor's and the debtor's points of view.
At your own pace: the self-paced pathway
In a class, this certificate takes 4 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.
Estimate how long my pathway will take
- Duration
- about 4 weeks
- Estimated end
- 4 weeks after you start
- Examination
- Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 4 weeks after you start
- Payment
- In a single payment
An indicative estimate, for a start today and 40 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 12 weeks (about 3 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.
Admission
Legal training or experience in credit or guarantees, assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.
The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Business Law, within a period set by the certificate regulations.