Drafting Commercial Contracts

All legal disputes are founded in the interpretation of written contracts; they are one of the largest causes of costly commercial litigation. Clarity and fair constructions are the key to a successful commercial agreement, and quick and reasonable dispute resolution, if dispute should arise.

With this in mind Falconbury have developed a comprehensive two-part programme which focuses on delivering practical and applied training of the key drafting skills needed to create transparent and direct contracts that deliver on a legal and commercial level.

Part I: Drafting Commercial Contracts focuses on developing a robust structure and formation to your contracts and expanding your drafting skills to deliver concise and watertight agreements.

Part II: Drafting Legal Clauses looks in more detail at the more complex clauses and how they can be drafted and applied to leverage commercial value and manage legal risk.

Who should attend?

• In house lawyers
• Solicitors in private practice
• Commercial directors and managers
• Contracts managers

Book individual days…

If you would like to attend each day individually the cost will be £699/€875 + VAT per day. Please contact customer services for more information on +44 (0)20 7729 6677.

Practical interactive learning style

This workshop style programme has been designed to offer a practical solution to your drafting challenges. Throughout, the expert presenter will use a balanced mix of theory, group exercises, discussion, sample clauses and case studies to provide you with a comprehensive portfolio of practical tips and techniques to drafting contracts which meet your commercial objectives as well as ensuring that there are no ‘surprises’ further on.

MARK WESTON is a partner at Matthew Arnold and Baldwin where he joined in August 2004 as Head of the Commercial, Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group, after several years at Baker & McKenzie. Mark’s practice covers both non-contentious and contentious matters in all areas of commercial law, intellectual property law, information technology law, Internet, electronic commerce, and on-line services law.

He has extensive experience in-house, having been seconded in the past to Hewlett Packard and new technology companies. His practice covers all sorts of commercial areas (including franchising) as well as extensive IT niches including advising clients regarding hardware and software issues (including development, licensing, maintenance and distribution), solutions for and methods of transacting on the Internet, electronic commerce, including B2B, B2C and B2G, strategies to minimise or maximise liability and carry out compliance audits, outsourcing, facilities management, procurement, company IT policies and data protection (privacy) issues.

He also has experience in various other areas of advanced IT law (such as digital signatures and PKI) and in dealing with software disputes and IT litigation (and methods of using alternative dispute resolution techniques).

Mark is Chairman of the Society for Computers & Law (North London and Home Counties Region), Chairman of the Intellectual Property Interest Group of Lawnet and is a premier member of the Eurojuris Intellectual Property Panel. Mark is an editor and contributor of several publications and articles and lectures at numerous commercial, IP and IT related conferences and training programmes.

Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP is a full service commercial law firm based out of two offices – in Central London and in Watford with 32 partners and more than 200 staff. The firm consists of City-trained lawyers and as a result is able to offer City experience and services at a better value for money than a City firm can offer. Across the practice areas covered, they have been recognised in offering excellent client services and have been acknowledged by various legal awards and rankings.

The firm is on the panel of a number of national and international organisations and regularly competes against many of the City firms. In recent months they have been able to win a number of panel reviews against City firms.

Clients of the firm include

Barclays Bank • Groupon Global • Computacenter • Europcar/National/Alamo • Thyron Systems • Acenden Limited • Bosch • ESRI (UK) • The Hilton Hotel Group • Steak Media • mysupermarket.co.uk • RTL Group S.A. • Sanyo

Liabilities and Damages in International Commercial Agreements

Managing and Leading an Effective In-House Legal Department

Negotiating and Drafting IT Contracts

This course qualifies for the following CPD programmes:

• Solicitors Regulation Authority: 12.00 hours
• Cert: 0.00 hours

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