Euromoney Legal Training

Course overview

'Advanced Contract Law' is a 2 day, practical training course that aims to:

• Strengthen your knowledge of complex contractual terms including indemnities, warranties
  and exclusion clauses
• Refresh your knowledge of the law surrounding breach, termination and liquidated damages, enabling you to draft tighter provisions and ensure greater protection for your stakeholders
• Review the latest developments in e-contract law
• Review useful boilerplate clauses and create new precedents

Summary of course content

• Warranties, representations and entire agreement clauses
• Liability risk protection including indemnities, exclusion and limitation of liability clauses
• Remedial clauses and damages
• Force majeure
• E-contracts
• Termination

Methodology

You will participate in class discussions and drafting exercises to reinforce your lecture and workshop experience. You will leave with the updated knowledge, confidence and familiarity with contracts required to tackle the most important aspects of commercial contract law.

Who should attend this training course?

• In-house legal counsel
• Contract managers / officers
• Legal advisors and consultants
• Legal specialists
• Legal counselors - commercial contracts
• Operational legal support
• Chief executive officers
• Managing directors
• Business development managers
• Project financiers
• Finance directors and financial controllers
• Marketing and sales directors and managers

Attend both courses and save US$1,000

Legal English: Contract Drafting and Negotiating Masterclass

Advanced Contract Law

 

 

 

 Supporting publication

Day 1

Introduction

• Freedom of contract
• Purpose of formalising contracts

Representative clauses

• Representations
• Warranties
• Entire agreement clauses

Practical exercise: delegates will break into teams to draft warranties and representation statements based on hypothetical deal sheets. Each team will then verify the other's proposed warranties.

Liability risk protection

• Limitation of liability clauses
• Exclusion clauses
• Indemnities
• Guarantees and Letters of Comfort

Practical exercise: taking a number of factual scenarios, teams will be asked to negotiate terms to limit or exclude certain liabilities, then draft them into formal clauses.

Day 2

Boilerplate

• Assignment
• Payment
• Retention of title
• Set-off
• Severability
• Taxation liabilities
• Third party rights

E-contracts

• Use
• Elements of the e-contract
• Shrink-wrap contracts
• Click-wrap contracts
• Browse-wrap contracts
• Emergence of e-signatures
• Drafting checklist for enforceable e-contracts

Exit and remedial clauses

• Delay and default
• Force majeure
• Non-waiver clauses
• Termination
• Liquidated damages
• Service credits

Practical exercise: delegates will review and redraft various clauses.

Rules of contract interpretation

• Contra proferentum
• Parol evidence rule
• Prior negotiations rule
• Implied terms
• Distinction between terms and conditions

• Siobhan Cool

  General Counsel and Group Secretary to the Skywest and Avation Groups
   
  Siobhan Cool is General Counsel and Group Secretary to the Skywest and Avation Groups, which are variously traded on the ASX and the secondary markets of LSE and operate an Australasian airline and an international aircraft leasing business. She led the group's legal team in the asset acquisition of the airline and her role now covers various transactional work including the negotiation, purchase, finance and leasing of aircraft, corporate governance and compliance issues as well as day-to-day legal matters for the group.

  Siobhan spent seven years as a barrister in private practice in Australia dealing with commercial, intellectual property and criminal law. Her international work experience includes private and public sector work in Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where she dealt primarily with commercial litigation. Her academic experience involves past positions with the National University of Singapore, the University of Queensland and Griffith University, Queensland.

  Siobhan has also served as a member of several prominent boards such as the Council for the Bar Association of Queensland where she was Assistant Secretary for three years, as well as the Management Committees of the Caxton Legal Centre Inc. (Qld) and the Australian & New Zealand Association of Singapore.

  Courses run by this instructor

  • Intellectual Property Law - Practical Overview and Commercial Considerations
  • Legal English: Contract Drafting and Negotiating Masterclass

Interested in holding this course in-house? Please fill out your details and a member of our team will be in touch with more information.

Management of Legal Risk and Services: The In-House Lawyer’s Role and Contribution

27-28 Sep 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This course encompasses the sharing of ideas, the evaluation of sample materials, debate on issues and comparison of solutions - it is not just training, it delivers collective consulting

Legal English: Contract Drafting and Negotiating Masterclass

19-20 Mar 2012 (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
19-22 Mar 2012 (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
4-5 Jun 2012 (Singapore, Singapore)
4-7 Jun 2012 (Singapore, Singapore)
19-20 Nov 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
19-22 Nov 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Register for both this course and 'Advanced Contrat Law' and save US$700.00. Just select the 4-day payment option below for US$6,500.00 to attend both courses.

Fraud, Corruption and Money Laundering: Prevention, Detection and Recovery

12-15 Nov 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This course is designed for delegates who either need a comprehensive introduction to, or an update on and greater insight into, the latest financial crime prevention and anti-money laundering techniques

Finance for Lawyers

25-27 Jun 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This highly practical course helps lawyers to gain a more comprehensive understanding of corporate's daily capital market activity

Intellectual Property Law - Practical Overview and Commercial Considerations

31 May 2012 - 1 Jun 2012 (Singapore, Singapore)
15-16 Nov 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

This course covers all the key aspects of international intellectual property, including copyright, patents, trademark issues, as well as licensing agreements and up-todate procedures that relate to IP enforcement

Cross-Cultural Negotiation

10-11 Sep 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
10-13 Sep 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Register for both this course (10-11 September 2012) and Leadership and Management Strategy (12-13 September 2012) and save US$1,450.00. Just select the 4-day payment option below for US$6,050.00 to attend both courses.

Leadership and Management

10-13 Sep 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
12-13 Sep 2012 (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Register for both this course (12-13 September 2012) and Cross-Cultural Negotiation (10-11 September 2012) and save US$1,450.00. Just select the 4-day payment option below for US$6,050.00 to attend both courses.

 

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