ADVANCED CONTRACT LAW

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1 Organised By: Supported By: ADVANCED CONTRACT LAW Friday, 25th January AM - 3PM 6 Battery Road, #10-01, Singapore Modern day contracting methods in today's business landscape have adopted increasingly innovative approaches, with contract professionals needing to be attuned to achieving successful outcomes rather than simply matching rights with remedies. This Advanced Contract Law course is designed for In-House Counsel as well as Non-Legal Professionals who have to deal with complex commercial contracts. Providing you with a walk-through of best practice techniques to ensure successful negotiation and administration for contract closeouts, drafting skills for critical clauses, guidance on reducing liability and key principles for termination, this course brings you invaluable instruction, instrumental for contractual success. Presented by RHT Academy, this course will provide you the crucial knowledge to create successful contracts that are more than a means of preserving rights, but also a vehicle to strengthen your commercial relationships WHAT YOU WILL ACHIEVE WHO SHOULD ATTEND GAIN practical negotiation skills and sound contract administration techniques LEARN drafting approaches to ensure contract utility and enforce-ability UNDERSTAND how to minimise liability exposure ACQUIRE best remedies for breach of contract OBTAIN guidance on safeguarding Intellectual Property assets In-House Legal Counsel/General Counsel Legal Managers Contract Managers Purchasing Managers Commercial and Business Development Managers Company Secretaries 4.5 Public CPD Points SPEAKERS Ng Yi Wayn Senior Associate, Corporate Practice, Jonathan Kok Head of Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, Eugene Quah Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, For Registration and More Information events@rhtacademy.com Need To Develop Your Entire Team? All our seminars and workshops can be developed into customized programmes to meet your organization s specific training needs. For more information, please contact Grace/Janice at events@rhtacademy.com or

2 Time Agenda BEST PRACTICE NEGOTIATION AND ACTIONING EFFECTIVE CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION Ensuring enforceability to fulfil effective contract performance and stakeholder expectations 9:00AM Covering commercial and legal risk with appropriate strategies The negotiating table: who should attend and when to walk away Drafting the contract with enduring commercial relationships in mind, but still recognising the potential for changing conditions over the life of the contract Transparent discussion of potential issues e.g. risk, safety and tortuous breach of duty Provide practical solutions for potential threats to the operation of the contract Negotiating payment schedules, earn-out clauses and liquidated damages contingent on performance Practical dispute resolution techniques, and the realities of enforcement in different jurisdictions DRAFTING ESSENTIAL CLAUSES General drafting styles Boilerplate clauses Types of essential clauses and specialised clauses Mitigating liability Ng Yi Wayn Senior Associate, Corporate Practice, 11:00 AM Networking Break INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES IN COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS 11:15 AM Differing species of intellectual property Identifying IP rights Understanding the impact of timing issues Identifying key areas of IP contractual risk What cannot be excluded or limited Disclaimers when are they relevant and how effective are they? Contractual clauses to manage infringements Types of remedies and how they can be used Jonathan Kok Partner and Head of Intellectual Property & Technology, 12:45 PM Lunch KEY PRINCIPLES FOR TERMINATION 2:00 PM Termination for convenience when is it valid? An analysis of the types of breaches Best remedies for breach of contract Advising on termination consequences and entitlements to damages How to avoid wrongful repudiation Using good faith Eugene Quah Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, 3:00 PM End of Workshop

3 Ng Yi Wayn, Senior Associate, Corporate Practice, Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; General Corporate Ng Yi Wayn is a Senior Associate in s Corporate Practice, specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets and has represented global and regional clients in the TMC (Technology-Media-Communication), Education and Healthcare sectors. She regularly advises clients on cross-border acquisitions and disposals, investments, restructurings and equity capital market transactions. She has also been recognized and featured by the Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore s 20 most promising legal luminaries aged 40-and-under. Jonathan Kok, Head and Partner Intellectual Property & Technology Practice, Practice Area: Corporate & Commercial Transactions, Commercial Exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights, Data Protection, Copyright, Trade Marks, Designs & Patents Jonathan Kok has been in practice for more than 25 years and represents clients in the Information Technology, Digital Media, Entertainment, Sports, Consumer Products & Services industries. He works closely with clients on the strategic protection and commercialisation of their intellectual property, ensuring that adequate protection is in place so as to facilitate the commercial exploitation of their intellectual property in Singapore and abroad. He also advises on the protection and cross-border transfer of data for clients in the tech industry. He is one of the few practitioners in Singapore with the expertise in digital media and entertainment law. His clients include prominent local and foreign advertising agencies and production companies. Jonathan is listed in Chambers, The Legal 500, Asialaw Leading Lawyers and Who s Who Legal: Singapore for his expertise in intellectual property, franchise, telecoms, media and technology. Eugene Quah, Partner, Practice Area: Commercial Litigation, Arbitration Eugene is a versatile lawyer with more than two decades of legal experience across all areas of legal work, including dispute resolution, commercial transactions, in-house legal operations and government & regulatory affairs. Eugene was previously a Director in the Dispute Resolution department of one of the most prominent and largest law firms in Singapore. He has acted for a wide spectrum of clients in numerous industries, including multi-national companies, public listed companies, private companies and private individuals. He currently practices primarily in the areas of commercial litigation and arbitration. He has handled claims relating to shareholder, partnership and joint-venture disputes, private investment, sale and purchase of companies, intellectual property infringement, defamation, fraud, sale of goods, medical negligence and employment, among others.

4 Registration Form (Please note the booking conditions below) PROGRAMME DETAILS 3 EASY WAYS TO REGISTER Advanced Contract Law Online Date: Friday 25 th Jan events@rhtacademy.com Time: 9am - 3pm Phone /6916 Venue: 6 Battery Road, #10-01, Singapore Date Friday 25 th Jan 2019 Registration Rates Early Bird Public Rate INDIVIDUAL (Register before 1 st Jan 2019) Clients of & RHT Group of Companies Rate INDIVIDUAL Regular Public Rate INDIVIDUAL Early Bird Public Rate GROUP (3 PAX AND ABOVE. Register before 1 st Jan 2019) Regular Public Rate GROUP (3 PAX AND ABOVE) SGD (Nett) per pax $675 $675 $750 $ $600 DELEGATE DETAILS #1 DELEGATE DETAILS #2 DELEGATE DETAILS #3 DELEGATE DETAILS #4

5 CONTACT DETAILS (FOR BILLING PURPOSES) Organisation Address Postal Code PAYMENT METHOD Payment is due upon registration. Upon completion of payment, a receipt will be issued to your billing address. Cheque Cheques should be made payable to RHT Academy Pte Ltd. Cheques should be mailed to RHT Academy Pte Ltd, 6 Battery Road, #10-01, Singapore , marked to the attention of Ms Janice Hoo. BOOKING TERMS & CONDITIONS 1. Registration will close 2 weeks before the course date or when seats are fully booked. 2. Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of your completed Registration Form. Please complete the registration form and to events@rhtacademy.com 3. Full payment must be made before the date of the courses. Please make payment via cheque, attention to Ms Janice Hoo, RHT Academy Pte. Ltd. 5. If you are unable to attend the event, a substitute delegate is welcome at no extra charge. 6. No refund will be issued for cancellations made less than 21 days prior to the event. 7. Group bookings are entitled to a special rate - delegates must sign up collectively and must come from the same billing organization. 8. RHT Academy reserves the right to redirect registrants to another course date, should the seats for a particular date are fully reserved. Thus, registrations will be on a first-come, first-served basis.