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Start Date: 03 Feb, 2025

End Date: 07 Feb, 2025

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$5,000

Event Details

  • Develop project plans focused on delivering sustainable benefits
  • Lead project teams in the use of contracts and delivery of projects
  • Manage relationships with project stakeholders and contractual partners
  • Improve their understanding of the role of contracts within a business
  • Apply the latest international thinking in dispute resolution

 

CONTENT

What are Contracts and how are they Created?

  • The need for contractual relationships
  • What is needed to create a valid contract? Ingredients and formalities
  • Authority and agency
  • The tender process
  • Alternative sourcing
  • Making contracts enforceable - with particular emphasis on the international context

 

The Structure of Contracts

  • Form of Agreement
  • Hierarchy of Terms and Conditions
  • Different contractual structures - Traditional and New
  • Risk and Title (ownership) in international trade. When does it transfer?
  • Notices and other formalities
  • Which law and which courts?

 

Collateral Documents

  • Securitising performance obligations
  • Bonds and guarantees
  • Parent company guarantees
  • Letters of intent, comfort or awareness
  • Insurance policies
  • Assessing the need for financial security

 

Change and Variation

  • Changes to Contract documents
  • Assignment/Novation explained and distinguished
  • Variation clauses and changes to the scope of work
  • Claims - what they are, and how they arise
  • Delay and disruption
  • Force majeure

 

Resolving Disputes

  • Conflict avoidance and tiered dispute resolution clauses
  • Negotiation
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Mediation, and new best practices in dispute resolution and management
  • Final questions and review of course

 

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.

 


This course is available in the following locations:
Nigeria - $3000
Ghana    - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000

Venue

200, Murtala Muhammed Way (2nd & 3rd Floors), Adekunle Bus Stop, Yaba, Lagos - Nigeria.

Other Dates

Start Date End Date
12 May, 2025 16 May, 2025
Start Date End Date
03 Feb, 2025 07 Feb, 2025