Drafting Commercial Contracts Course: Develop Your Skills to Draft Clear and Concise Commercial Agreements - London, United Kingdom - June 18th-20th, 2019

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The "3-day Drafting Commercial Contracts" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

"A Practical Interactive Three Day Programme Designed to Develop Your Skills to Draft Clear and Concise Commercial Agreements. This Comprehensive Two-Part Programme Focuses on Delivering Practical and Applied Training of the Key Drafting Skills"

Draft clear and concise commercial agreements that meet the challenges of today's commercial environment

This comprehensive two-part programme 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.

Who Should Attend:

In house lawyers
Solicitors in private practice
Legal and para-legal executives
Commercial directors and managers
Contracts managers

Agenda:

Part 1 - Drafting, Structure and Fundation of Contracts

The legal framework of a contract

Commercial contract format and structure - Part 1

Commercial contract format and structure - Part 2

PRACTICAL EXERCISE

Examining a sample agreement
Checking errors of form and clarity in contracts

Ancillary documentation and contracts

Terms: implied, express and standard

Drafting techniques - Part 1: the easy but not well- known stuff

PRACTICAL EXERCISE

Modern drafting

Drafting techniques - Part 2: the hard stuff and not well-known stuff

Exclusion and limitation clauses

Part 2 - Drafting Legal Clauses

Introduction to Boilerplate

Transferring contractual rights and obligations

Welded Boilerplate

Payments and interest

Confidentiality clauses

Term and termination; entire agreement clauses; governing law, jurisdiction and dispute resolution clauses (77)

Other miscellaneous boilerplate

PRACTICAL DRAFTING WORKSHOP

Anglicisation

Speakers:

Mark Weston
Partner
Hill Dickinson

Mark Weston is a partner at Hill Dickinson having joined the firm on 1st February 2016 as Head of Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Commercial (London). Mark joined the firm from Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP where for 12 years he was a partner and Head of the Commercial, Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group, before which he spent 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 specialises in commercial and tech issues.

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 SaaS, cloud, development, licensing, maintenance and distribution), solutions for and methods of transacting on the Internet, electronic commerce, including B2B, B2C and B2G, S-commerce and M-Commerce, social media, 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 IT litigation (and different 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 writes various books on his specialist topics and is an editor and contributor of several publications and articles and lectures at numerous commercial, IP and IT related conferences and training programmes.

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