Practical seminar on international business contracts

Drafting and optimizing English-language contracts with legal certainty

This training is held in German.
Do you already have some experience in negotiating and concluding contracts or would you like to build on your existing knowledge in order to better understand and draft English-language contracts? In this training , you will learn how to avoid unnecessary complications and lengthy legal disputes from the outset through professional and targeted preparation, negotiation and drafting. Using practical examples, you will also learn how to use individual drafting options and typical contract clauses tactically.

Contents

Contract clauses for contract drafting and optimization

Classification in international legal systems

Important contract components

  • Subject Matter of Contract.
  • Performance and Delivery, Passing of Risk.
  • Dates and deadlines (timeframe, dates).
  • Remuneration.
  • Terms of payment (Payment Terms).
  • Acceptance of the Completed Work.
  • Subcontractors (subcontracting).

Rights and obligations arising from the contract

  • Warranty (Warranty)
  • Intellectual Property Rights and Infringement of Intellectual Property Rights.
  • Retention of Title.
  • Liability and Limitation of Liability.
  • Cooperation and support obligations.
  • Non-competition clause (non-compete).
  • Secrecy and Confidentiality.
  • Term and Termination.
  • Offsetting, retention (offset, retainer).

Contractual clauses in the event of a conflict

  • Applicable law, place of jurisdiction (Applicable/Governing Law, Jurisdiction).
  • Arbitration Clause.
  • Written form, amendment (Written Form, Amendment).
  • Partial unenforceability/severability clause.
  • Force majeure (force majeure).
  • Assignment.

Tips and tricks for contract negotiations

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

  • Deepen your knowledge of the most important legal framework conditions of (international) contract law within a short period of time.
  • Using specific sample contracts and examples of wording, you will receive comprehensible and directly applicable knowledge about the drafting of English-language contracts.
  • You will learn how to avoid potential pitfalls at the contract drafting stage.
  • You will act with more confidence when drafting, negotiating and concluding English-language contracts.

No prior legal knowledge is required.

The training is held in German.

The sample contracts are in English or bilingual.

Methods

Practical seminar with many examples and integrated workshop, analysis of contract components and checklists.

Recommended for

Executives and managers in companies who are already involved in contract negotiations and their content and already have basic knowledge in this area. Project managers and sales staff.

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Seminar evaluation for "Practical seminar on international business contracts"

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