Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0406895708 ISBN 13: 9780406895707

Publisher: Lexisnexis Uk

Synopsis

"This book provides a modern, fresh and practical approach to the skill of drafting. It explains how to draft legally effective commercial contracts, considers negotiating issues commonly encountered in commercial drafting, and explains how contracts are interpreted by the courts.It provides notes and commentary on a range of legal, practical and commercial issues which commonly arise when drafting commercial contracts and practical examples are given throughout, in order to illustrate clearly the points made.The book offers clause-by-clause guidance through a detailed commercial agreement, highlighting problem areas, explaining why the agreement is structured and drafted in a particular way, indicating where words have acquired meaning according to case law or legislation, suggesting best practice, commenting on possible solutions to practical problems and discussing 'boilerplate' terms and their usefulness."

About this title

About the Author

Mark Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Law LLP and is ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners Directory UK 2016. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London and chairman of the Law Society's Intellectual Property Law Committee. He has over 30 years' experience of drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts. Most of his clients are technology-based companies and universities, based in the UK, continental Europe and the United States. Victor Warner is a solicitor at Anderson Law LLP specialising in intellectual property and technology law. He is the principal author of Technology Transfer (Bloomsbury Professional), several volumes of Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents, Drafting Confidentiality Agreements (Law Society) and the Execution of Documents (Law Society). He is also a co-author with Mark Anderson of A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (Bloomsbury Professional), a companion volume to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts.

Review

With its practical insight, drafting techniques and various samples this book does not only facilitate the access to Commercial Contract Law for those who have not yet specialized in that field of law, but also provides indispensable detailed information for commercial lawyers and contract managers...an essential update * German-British Chamber of Industry & Commerce *

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexisnexis Uk
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0406895708
• ISBN 13: 9780406895707
• Binding: Paperback