First semester

• Business Management and Corporate Governance is concerned with corporation and company law, focusing especially on detailed concerns in corporate law, issues in establishing transborder corporations, and standards for good management practice.
• International Contract Law and Preparing Contracts considers German and international liability law, the UN sales law, international trade usage and issues in prospective conflict management; one main focus is on preparing and drafting contracts.
• Corporate and Collective Employment Law (English) comprises two parts. Corporate Employment Law explores labour law issues in companies active in the international arena, addressing topics such as international labour law, designation rights and labour law aspects of company restructuring. Collective Employment Law takes a detailed look at the law on labour management relations, co-determination and collective bargaining.
• Project and Research Module embraces moot court participation and the treatment and solution of real-life corporate issues, as well as more scholarly research projects.

Second semester

• Corporate Transactions (English): acquisitions (M&A), flotation (IPO), securitisation (ABS), takeovers, externally financed company buy-outs (LBO) and project funding
• Restructuring and Risk Management addresses a range of measures from the perspective of a company experiencing financial difficulties, from risk management to German and international insolvency law, looking at such concerns as insolvency status, capital entitlement under corporate law, and reorganisation loans.
• Preparing Labour Law Contracts focuses on complex labour law issues, from designing employment contracts to compensation and working time models.
• Competition and Intellectual Property in Europe considers how the Bundeskartellamt and the European Commission protect competition, German and European public procurement law, and the question of intellectual property protection within the EU and in a globalised world.

One of the following possible specialisation electives can be taken in the first two semesters:

• Specialisation in Finance (English)
• Specialisation in Human Resources (English)

Third semester
The third semester is dedicated to the preparation and submission of the Master's thesis and the final oral exam (oral defence).

• Language training provided
• Integrated study abroad unit(s)

Integrated study abroad unit at ZHAW: only for double degree students

For admission to the programme, 210 ECTS credit points are required. Applicants with 180 ECTS credit points will be required to obtain the additional 30 ECTS credit points by completing an internship in the third semester. The programme will then last four semesters.