Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts

This book is the 'one-stop-shop' for practical contractual matters, making it essential reading for anyone involved in negotiating and drafting commercial contracts.

Answering questions such as 'How do I draft my contract clearly?', 'What will happen if my contract is interpreted by the English court?' and 'Why are liability clauses so full of legal jargon?', the book includes:

- A guide to the common legal issues in negotiating and drafting contracts
- An explanation of the structure and content of a commercial contract
- The meaning and use of commonly-used words, phrases and legal jargon
- An explanation of key UK contracts legislation, including the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Consumer Rights Act 2015
- Steps to take, and what to check for in a contract to eliminate errors
- Practical measures to protect documents from unwanted alteration, to remove metadata and sensitive information and to secure documents

Fully updated to take account of important court decisions regarding the interpretation of contracts and changes in consumer legislation, the Fifth Edition also includes:

- A new chapter on termination of contracts
- New material on administering of existing contracts and modern methods of executing documents (eg DocuSign)
- New and updated examples of contract drafting techniques
- Additional definitions of legal terms used in contracts

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Mark Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Law LLP and is top-ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners Directory UK 2022 for both life science transactions and intellectual property. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and a member of the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales, representing Business and Commercial Law. He has over 35 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.
Together with other members of Anderson Law, Mark is the author of several legal textbooks, loose-leaf works and volumes of legal encyclopaedias in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law including A-Z Guide of Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (4th Ed), Technology Law (4th Ed) and Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Ed) published by Bloomsbury Professional.