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  • Anticipate, Identify, and Analyze key issues raised by often-litigated clauses, including:
  • Indemnification
  • Arbitration
  • Fee-shifting
  • Successor liability
  • Enforceability of term sheets and preliminary “agreements to agree”
  • Material adverse events

A list of resources on warranties in commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer contracts.

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Region: Global, United States, United Kingdom, South America
Pakhi Garg
17 pages

This article discusses India's rapidly evolving artificial intelligence ecosystem, including some key areas where AI is likely to have the greatest impact and strategies for in-house counsel.

AGENDA:
  • 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.—Check-in / Light Breakfast

  • 9:00 a.m to 9:30 a.m.—Introduction to Negotiation; the Circle Chart Tool

  • 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.—The Seven Elements: A tool for preparing, negotiating, and evaluating outcomes

  • 10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.—Break

  • 10:40 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—Negotiation Simulation and Group Preparation Exercise

  • 11:30 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.—Debrief the Exercise

  • 12:25 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.—Concluding Remarks

  • 12:30 p.m.—Lunch

Please join us on April 30th for a half-day training on negotiation and conflict resolution. Kyle Glover, a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law, will provide tools and tested best practices that will enable participants to sharpen their skills on negotiating and resolving conflict on behalf of their clients and business partners more effectively, and deepen their understanding of negotiation strategies, as well as techniques for improving the negotiation process and outcomes.   
 
The training will begin with a presentation on the key strategies in preparing for and approaching negotiations, with concrete tools for each phase of the process:

  • Preparation;
  • Negotiating with a Counterparty; and,
  • Evaluation of Negotiation Outcomes.

Attendees will participate in a tabletop exercise in order to apply the concepts provided. Following the simulation, the group will participate in a discussion on the negotiation exercise to focus on taking away the strategies and tools for everyday application.

A light breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Register below.

Andrew Turner (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

This article briefly discusses the necessity for lawyers to have an appropriate level of financial and accounting knowledge in order to understand and articulate financial principles.

This resource was originally published on the website of Eversheds Sutherland on September 13, 2023.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Thousands of US auto workers went on strike in September 2023. Learn about the implications in-house counsel need to keep in mind for US employers and global businesses.

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Region: United States, Global

When deals go bad or a collaboration goes wrong, it is often the "simple" boilerplate provisions and words that matter significantly in litigation: indemnity provisions, damages limitation provisions, force majeure and impracticability conditions, dispute resolution provisions, and "commercial reasonableness," to take a few examples.
 
Join ACC Northeast and Shook, Hardy & Bacon for this important webinar as we focus on the types of contract provisions that are most often at the center of disputes.  Tom Sullivan, Litigation Partner at Shook will be joined by Marc Polk, Head of Litigation and Enterprise Risk Management at BeiGene USA, to analyze and discuss recent case law regarding these and other critical provisions to tease out the lessons learned from the disputes involving these provisions.  Tom's extensive experience with complex commercial case in various industries will help all in-house counsel become better business advisors for your companies.

Don't miss out, register today!  Zoom address will be sent 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Matthew Pollock, Prasad Taksal (DLA Piper)
1 pages

This article discusses partnership agreements and the key items that are typically addressed in these agreements.

13 pages

A sample contract drafting and review checklist for a company's Procurement Services to use as a review tool / contract playbook, to aid in protecting the company's interests in contractual matters.

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