MSc in Business Law
Paris, France
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 27,000 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* fee for Long Track | € 17500 fee for Short Track
Early Bird discount of 5% off tuition fees
For any application completed before February 28th, 2025
Introduction
Unlock the future of responsible leadership with KEDGE Business School
Taught entirely in English, the programme takes place at KEDGE’s Paris Lumière campus, a modern facility spanning 160,000 m². The campus features 25 “brain bubbles” for creative learning, providing a dynamic environment that promotes collaboration and international networking. In the MSc Business Law, Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) & compliance, students will explore key global challenges such as climate change, blockchain, AI, and antitrust law, ensuring they are prepared to address today’s most complex issues.
Programme Highlights
- Corporate and Financial Law
- Climate Change Risks
- AI & Blockchain
- Cryptocurrencies
- Anticorruption & Anti-money Laundering
- Economic Sanctions
- Human Rights
- Kedge Excellence
Bridging law and business for impact
With the growing demand for professionals who can integrate legal expertise and business knowledge, this unique double-competence programme meets the need for experts who can drive responsible business practices. Graduates will be equipped to guide companies in identifying risks, implementing compliant strategies, and balancing business objectives with legal requirements.
What sets us apart?
KEDGE’s strong network of over 90,000 alumni, along with partnerships with more than 200 leading companies, ensures valuable career opportunities for graduates. This programme is an excellent choice for those who want to thrive in leadership roles, helping businesses succeed in a world where legal compliance and business strategy are increasingly intertwined.
What to expect
Specifically, this MSc equips students aspiring to work in major corporations, either in France or abroad, with the knowledge and skills essential for a career as a Corporate Lawyer & Compliance Officer. The degree ensures that participants master key areas of law relevant to corporate legal departments, contracts, competition, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, business litigation and alternative dispute resolution methods, digital law, and more. Additionally, candidates will benefit from specialised training in compliance. They will be taught to understand and identify contemporary geopolitical and regulatory challenges faced by multinational companies. These developments have led to a proliferation of national, regional, and international regulations, requiring sophisticated expertise in compliance for operators seeking to conduct cross-border economic activities successfully.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
At KEDGE, we strongly believe that students shouldn’t abandon their education projects because of funding problems. This is why we have launched a financial support plan tailored to international candidates' backgrounds, countries of origin, situation, and prior educational achievements:
- Early Bird discount for early completion of your application: 10% before November 30 and 5% before February 29.
- Excellence scholarship based on merit
- Solidarity scholarship, a grant on social criteria
- Diversity scholarship intended for students hailing from a range of international, cultural, or social backgrounds
- Partner scholarships for applicants joining the school via a “pathway agreement” with a partner institution
- Alumni scholarship for alumni wishing to pursue further education at the school
- Welcome to the France scholarship, for talented international students applying before April 10th
Curriculum
Short Track
Master of Science (MSc)
The MSc programme features innovative instructional techniques that focus on employability, mastery of tools and an international mindset. The programme consists of 2 academic semesters + an internship + a written dissertation.
Semesters 1 & 2
RBC & business and finance law (Semester 1)
- Economic sanctions & investment law principles
- Commercial contracts (drafting, principled negotiation and dispute resolution)
- Intellectual property law (IP rights and trade secret protection)
- Corporate deviance & white-collar crime
- Financial and banking Law
- Advanced corporate law and MA
RBC & law and digitalisation (Semester 2)
- Cloud and data law
- Cybersecurity
- Blockchain, smart contracts
- Digital finance
- Litigation risks relating to RBC & digitalisation
RBC & sustainability, antitrust, AML, anticorruption (Semester 1 and 2)
- Extra financial & sustainability reporting
- Sustainable finance
- Business law & human rights and environmental protection
- Climate change risks and obligations for corporations
- Civil and criminal litigation risks relating to RBC & sustainability
Long Track
Pathway course
Semester 1
- Strategic thinking
- Financial performance
- Data management
- Excel certification (TOSA)
- Business & ecological transition
- Business & social change
- Sustainable environment for organisations
- Public speaking
- Visual communication & sustainable impakt
Semester 2
- Team management
- Business & sustainability
- ChatGPT leadership lab
- Coding skills
- Open Innovation Challenge (applied corporate project)
Pre-specialisation courses
- Corporate finance
- Capital markets (Bordeaux)
- Management control (Marseille, Paris)
- Sustainable finance certificate
Master of Science (MSc)
RBC & business and finance law (Semester 1)
- Economic sanctions & investment law principles
- Commercial contracts (drafting, principled negotiation and dispute resolution)
- Intellectual property law (IP rights and trade secret protection)
- Corporate deviance & white-collar crime
- Financial and Banking Law
- Advanced corporate law and MA
RBC & law and digitalisation (Semester 2)
- Cloud and data law
- Cybersecurity
- Blockchain, smart contracts
- Digital finance
- Litigation risks relating to RBC & digitalisation
RBC & sustainability, antitrust, AML, anticorruption (Semester 1 and 2)
- Extra financial & sustainability reporting
- Sustainable finance
- Business law & human rights and environmental protection
- Climate change risks and obligations for corporations
- Civil and criminal litigation risks relating to RBC & sustainability
Program Outcome
Skills and Knowledge Gained
Legal Support
- Providing advice to executives and teams on all projects.
- Managing the risk of civil and criminal sanctions the company or its executives may face.
- Reviewing and negotiating contracts: commercial, banking, service agreements, and routine contracts for the group's parent company and subsidiaries.
- Drafting and reviewing securities established within the group.
- Expertise in corporate organisation, group structures, and insolvency law.
- Risk analysis and raising awareness among operational teams.
- Drafting legal memoranda.
- Monitoring and analysing legislative and regulatory changes, particularly developments in environmental and social responsibility (CSR) regulations.
- Managing pre-litigation, arbitration, and litigation cases.
- Providing legal support to operational teams on all types of cases, including R&D, real estate, and collaborations.
- Defining and implementing training programmes for legal and contracts teams, as well as operational staff.
- Offering legal support for mergers and acquisitions.
- Monitoring legal structures held by the company.
- Actively contributing to the definition and implementation of actions related to the legal department’s transformation plan.
Compliance
- Monitoring due diligence processes related to third-party assessments and banking KYC procedures.
- Supporting the implementation of training and risk prevention measures related to corruption and non-compliance with international sanctions.
- Understanding business compliance issues (Sapin II Law, FCPA/UKBA, whistleblower protection, duty of vigilance, anti-money laundering, etc.).
- Ensuring adherence to internal processes related to ethics and compliance.
- Participating in the creation of codes of conduct and compliance plans to promote legal and ethical practices.
- Raising awareness about compliance rules and associated risks across all levels of the organisation.
- Developing a risk mapping for non-compliance and implementing remediation plans, including corrective actions.
Data Protection
- Monitoring legislative developments (GDPR, ethics, and compliance) and updating internal policies, contractual clauses, and codes of conduct.
- Managing a network of representatives, supporting internal teams and subsidiaries on GDPR issues, and participating in internal audits with improvement recommendations.
- Drafting and updating privacy policies, subcontracting agreements, GDPR clauses, and other data protection documents.
- Training and educating employees on GDPR best practices and handling requests related to individuals’ rights (access, rectification, deletion, etc.).
- Analysing and managing personal data breaches, notifying authorities as required, and implementing corrective measures.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
- In-house legal officers for multinational companies
- In-house regulatory compliance officers for multinational companies
- Legal compliance experts for the financial industry
- Regulatory compliance experts for the financial industry
- Legal experts for accounting firms
- Regulatory compliance experts for accounting firms
- Legal experts for international organisations
- Regulatory compliance experts for international organisations
- Compliance professionals for supervisory authorities
- Lawyers in corporate law practices for international law firms