How to draft your commercial lease correctly!

Drafting and optimizing your commercial leases

• You have the opportunity to work intensively on your own and provided contracts and contract clauses.

Structure and organization of a commercial lease agreement

• Structure of a rental agreement.
• Required contents and components.
• Use of annexes to the commercial lease agreement.
• Outsourcing of major components.

Formulating commercial rental agreements/contractual clauses in an economically sensible way

• Drafting and optimization of commercial lease agreements.
• Formulate effective clauses that stand up to content review.
• Observance of the transparency requirement.
• Understanding the legal background.
• Incl. work aids, checklists.

Understanding the economic significance of the clauses

• Required authorizations and their non-issuance.
• Rent increase options and necessary regulations.
• Term regulations and options.
• Protection against competition and duty to operate.
• Rental collateral.
• Contractual penalties.
• Correct and complete allocation of operating costs.
• Effective regulations on cosmetic repairs.
• Passing on maintenance and repairs.
• Sales tax issues.
• Obligations at the end of the tenancy.

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Avoiding pitfalls when drafting contracts

• Working with checklists.
• Ongoing adaptation of sample contracts to the prevailing case law.
• Consideration of the written form requirement and the written form cure clause.
• Special termination rights.

Important formalities and tools for drafting contracts

• Offer and acceptance problems.
• Timing of the conclusion of the rental agreement.
• Signatures and power of attorney issues.
• Use of conditions precedent and rights of withdrawal.

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