Course description
This full day in-person course is for commercial and corporate practitioners who are seeking to have a fuller understanding of key parts of their relational contracts and their SPAs.
It is presented by the ever-popular Helen Swaffield, a commercial law specialist at Contract Law Chambers who is also a highly experienced and sought-after speaker.
Topics discussed will include purchaser and seller warranties, key points for SPA disclosure and data rooms, and wording which is an exclusion of liability. The role and remedy of represenations will be explored in detail, along with how to weaken and strenghten indemnities, a comprehensive discussion on guarantees, and much more.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This new full day in-person course is for commercial and corporate practitioners who are seeking to have a fuller understanding of key parts of their relational contracts and their SPAs.
What You Will Learn
This in-person course will cover the following:
- Warranties
- Purchaser
- Seller
- Key points for SPA disclosure and data rooms
- Wording which is an exclusion of liability
- Wording towards increasing their power as performance guarantees
- Representations
- Their role and remedy in the contract
- The relationship with mis-statement
- Pre-contractual statements and the entire agreement clause - is it good enough?
- Remedies - calculation of losses
- The effect of fraudulent misrepresentation on notices and other clauses
- Indemnities
- Debt - based liability
- Hold harmless - defend - covenant
- Liquidating the amount in the clause
- Weakening the indemnity - quick wins
- Strengthening the indemnity using the 6 types
- Shackling the indemnity to warranties in SPAs
- The relationship to the exclusion of liability
- Reverse indemnities - can they overcome compliance wrongdoing?
- Third parties and the indemnity
- Guarantees
- Financial
- Performance
- Primary
- Secondary
- Defences and set-offs
- Subrogation
- Co-extensive liability
- Signatures, incorporation and deeds
Expenses
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