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Part of Business & Corporate Law

Securities & Capital Markets

Raising capital and the rules for selling and trading investments.

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What this area covers

Securities lawyers advise companies that raise money from investors and the firms that sell and trade those investments. The field combines disclosure work on offerings with counselling on reporting duties and defending enforcement actions.

Also called: Capital Markets, Securities Law, Securities Regulation.

Typical legal work

  • Preparing registration statements and offering documents
  • Advising public companies on reporting obligations
  • Representing clients in regulatory investigations

Where lawyers work

  • Law firms of every size
  • In-house legal departments
  • Securities regulators
  • Broker-dealers and funds

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Securities & Capital Markets. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

3 schools · 1 clinic · 2 centers and institutes

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.
  2. 2.Law School Admission Council. Fields of Law (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.