Drafting International Contracts Under Harmonised Commercial Principles

Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run harmonised international contract principles properly.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

The cost of getting harmonised international contract principles wrong is rarely the judgment; it is the years spent reaching it. Most contractual disputes about contract principles are decided by what was written, not what was intended. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of this strand of legal and contractual practice and prepares them for it. Applied research in legal and contractual practice consistently shows that early structure around harmonised international contract principles reduces downstream rework. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the legal and contractual practice discipline are used deliberately. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting contract principles, ready to be adapted internally. It treats harmonised international contract principles as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. Ambition around contract principles outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this area of legal and contractual practice sustainable.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Communicate the purpose of harmonised international contract principles to those who have to comply with it.

02

Draft provisions on contract principles that allocate risk deliberately rather than by default.

03

Select the dispute resolution route for harmonised international contract principles appropriate to value and relationship.

04

Set a realistic target state for contract principles and a defensible route to it.

05

Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around harmonised international contract principles.

06

Manage variations and change to contract principles without losing contractual position.

07

Identify the clauses in harmonised international contract principles that determine outcome when performance fails.

Who Should Attend

01

Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in harmonised international contract principles.

02

Claims and dispute specialists working on contract principles.

03

Business partners who must understand harmonised international contract principles well enough to challenge it.

04

In-house counsel and legal advisers handling contract principles.

05

Business managers who sign agreements involving harmonised international contract principles.

06

Contract managers and administrators responsible for contract principles.

Course Modules

01

Harmonised international contract principles: drafting and deliberate risk allocation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Getting other functions to support harmonised international contract principles

  • Set out how exceptions to harmonised international contract principles are requested and approved.
  • Apply data protection requirements to personal data handled under contract principles.
  • Identify single points of dependency in harmonised international contract principles and reduce them.
  • Review whether contract principles is aligned with the objectives of the contract portfolio.

Session 2Who may bind the organisation on contract principles

  • Record the reasoning for any departure from the standard position on harmonised international contract principles.
  • Standardise recurring clauses in contract principles into an approved template.
  • Identify the compliance obligations harmonised international contract principles triggers and who tracks them.
  • Review limitation and exclusion clauses in contract principles for enforceability.
02

Contract principles: claims, evidence and quantification

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing contract principles when nothing has gone wrong

  • Record what was learned when harmonised international contract principles did not go as planned.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to contract principles.
  • Record contemporaneous evidence of performance under harmonised international contract principles as it happens.
  • Handle each variation to contract principles in writing, with price and time consequence agreed.

Session 2Notices and time bars in contract principles that are easy to miss

  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of harmonised international contract principles current.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to contract principles will be introduced.
  • Confirm bonds, guarantees and insurance supporting harmonised international contract principles are valid and current.
  • Build the competence framework that supports contract principles.
03

Contract principles: authority, approval and execution

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Administering contract principles so the contract stays enforceable

  • Review the definitions in harmonised international contract principles for terms doing heavy commercial work.
  • Identify where judgement in contract principles is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Set out the decisions in harmonised international contract principles that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether contract principles is improving.

Session 2Handling variations to harmonised international contract principles without losing position

  • Establish who administers harmonised international contract principles day to day once it is signed.
  • Confirm signature authority for contract principles against the delegation matrix.
  • Close out actions on harmonised international contract principles rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Protect confidential information and intellectual property shared under contract principles.
04

Contract principles: security, guarantees and payment protection

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building the contemporaneous record supporting contract principles

  • Agree what will be standardised in harmonised international contract principles and what will not.
  • Check that records of contract principles answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Diarise every notice period and time bar in harmonised international contract principles.
  • Establish the boundary of contract principles and record what sits outside it.

Session 2Building the method for contract principles step by step

  • Arrange the handover of harmonised international contract principles so capability survives staff changes.
  • Check the governing law and jurisdiction clauses in contract principles are consistent.
  • Identify which party bears each material risk under harmonised international contract principles, and whether that is intended.
  • Review closed contracts on contract principles for lessons before drafting the next one.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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