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Drafting Commercial Contracts Some Practical Ideas
Over 35 years of working with legal documents I have seen more horrors than is healthy: services agreements with goods warranties wallowing in the undergrowth; clauses that ran for hundreds...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Considering the Rationale of Incorporating Force Majeure Clauses in Commercial Contracts Between the Parties to a Commercial Contract

Force Majeure clauses are often incorporated by practising lawyers (other than Counsels) as a matter of practice in drafting commercial contracts, be they domestic or transnational, apparently without realising that...Read more

Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
Contract Design and Simplification – is this now a must-do?

Is the pendulum shifting? In a fast, technology-driven world, business stakeholders are keen to move away from dense walls of text in contracts. Increasingly, they understand that contracts are a...Read more

Paula Doyle
Chief Legal Innovation Officer, World Commerce & Contracting , USA

Stefania Passera
Contract Designer, Passera Design, World Commerce & Contracting, University of Vaasa, Finland
Bringing the ‘Value Add’ to Commercial Contracts
As trained lawyers and legal experts we strive to ensure accurate and compliant textbook legal advice to ensure contracts are legally robust but, ultimately, does this make us a good...Read more

Eleanor Ager
Commercial Director - Major Projects, Schneider Electric , UK
The Sustainable Contract

Sustainability has been an integral part of Eni and Enel's culture and strategy for years, as well as a real source of economic value, driving a process of continuous and...Read more

Pietro Galizzi
Head of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance Affairs, Eni gas e luce S.p.A, Italy

Edoardo Marcenaro
Head of Legal & Corporate Affairs , Enel Grids srl, Italy
Negotiating Commercial Terms and Mitigating Risks in Virtual Power Purchase Agreements in The United States
In 2019, commercial and industrial purchasers (C&I), particularly in the United States (U.S.), signed record renewable energy deals with third-party developers through power purchase agreements. Worldwide contracts that were signed...Read more

Kingsley Osei
Lead Project Counsel, State University of New York, USA
Rethinking Bareboat Charter Agreements in the Wake of the
Covid-19 Pandemic


Covid-19 represents a global crisis whose effects go beyond the field of public health, and affect many others parts of our daily lives. It goes without saying that the pandemic...Read more
Juan Francisco Albarenque
Legal Director, National Shipping Argentina, Argentina

Sebastian Ferreyra Romea
Attorney, Ferreyra Romea Legal & Compliance, Argentina
Rails Projects: A Rising Need of Contracts to Stay on Tracks

The rail projects appear specific however they include generally the same tasks and targets: build and/or operate a rail network with dedicated trains.
A rail project involves successive steps to...Read more

Gilles Mugnier
International affairs director, Sncf, France
Blood, Paper, & Bed: How to Mitigate Risk Doing Business with the U.S. Federal, State, and Local Governments


Building a corporate brand and promoting corporate interests involves more than just producing and selling the best products and services—it also requires a company’s active involvement in a nation’s democracy....Read more
Garret Scronce
Political Compliance and Operations Analyst , Koch Companies Public Sector, USA

Jenny Kim
Deputy GC & VP, Public Policy, Koch Companies Public Sector, USA
The Evolution of Media Buying and Technology: A Contracting Dilemma

Advertisers were once able to target sixty percent of all U.S. households by running an advertisement (‘advert’) during the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. With the increase...Read more

Gayle Taylor
Manager, Senior Legal Counsel, Adobe Inc., USA