• Enhance their knowledge and understanding of commercial agreements.
• Master practical drafting techniques to draw up concise and effective agreements.
• Understand the effect of exclusion and limitation clauses and how they can be used to manage your exposure.
• How to become a more effective commercial lawyer.

CONTENT:

• Basic contract drafting skills
• Contents of a contract
• find current statements of case law and legislation regarding commercial legal issues;
• apply principles of statutory interpretation in a commercial legal context;
• apply the doctrine of precedent in a commercial legal context
• Clauses related to potential claims
• Contractual remedies
• Drafting commercial contracts
• Liquidated damages and penalties
• Negotiation issues in international commercial agreements
• identify legal issues in a problem scenario and apply the law to resolve those issues;
• Contracts of Sale and Contracts of Lease
• Contracts of insurance and agency contracts
• General techniques in drafting commercial contracts:
• Sale/Purchase of the various business/commercial structures
• Lease agreements and Interpretation
• Contracts in procurement and supply-chain management

FOR WHOM:

Legal Officers and others who perform related functions

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

The training is available in the following locations:

NIGERIA: $5500

RWANDA: $7500

UK: $8500

USA: $8500