Course details
Why Attend
This course is designed for professionals with no prior legal background but who are required to make organizational decisions involving legal matters. It will provide participants with the fundamental principles of commercial law, including commercial contracts and negotiation, sale of goods, intellectual property rights and employee relations.
Participants will gain an in-depth understanding of both international and GCC commercial law and have the opportunity to learn and analyze key issues which they are likely to encounter within their organization.
Course Methodology
In this interactive training course participants will frequently work in pairs as well as in larger groups to complete exercises as well as regional and international case studies.
Course Objectives
- Apply legal rules and principles to specific commercial situations through consideration of relevant case law
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts complying with commercial and legal requirements
- Increase profitability within their organization by selecting appropriate methods of distribution of goods
- Recognize and analyze how intellectual property rights affect their organization
- Evaluate and modify organizational employment practices complying with labor law requirements
Target Audience
Target Competencies
- Drafting Contracts
- Contract Negotiation
- Understanding Commercial Terms
- Understanding Employment Law
- Implementing Organizational Employment Practices
- Understanding Intellectual Property
Course Outline
- Commercial Law overview
- Terminology used in commercial law
- Types of contracts
- Legal considerations
- Commercial contracts
- Common law
- Civil law
- The legal formalities in contract creation
- Commercial contract interpretation issues
- Remedies for breach of contract
- Drafting contracts
- Drafting commercial contracts in English
- Negotiating commercial contracts
- Boilerplate clauses: The important but forgotten clauses
- Amendment
- Arbitration
- Force majeure
- Notices
- Set off
- Sale of Goods
- Supply of goods
- Distributorship
- Agency
- Franchise
- Choosing the right business vehicle for a commercial entity
- When to use mergers
- Joint ventures: A strategic option for business
- Procurement activities
- Legal risk
- Commercial risk
- Managing risk
- Prevention is better than cure: Effective risk management
- Intellectual property rights management
- Applying copyright
- Applying trademarks
- Industrial property
- Other legal considerations in the GCC
- Employment issues in the GCC
- GCC labor law
- Recruitment and termination
- Employment contracts
- Commercial real estate in the GCC
- Employment issues in the GCC
Course Location
About PLUS Specialty Training
As a division of Meirc, PLUS Specialty Training provides highly specialized, technical and industry-specific training courses using leading freelance subject matter experts, practitioners, and technical trainers.
- Public / open training courses are delivered in:
- 3 or 5 days
- English or Arabic
- Dubai or Abu Dhabi
- In-house / in-company courses are available in all topics, upon request
- Training courses are facilitated by leading freelance subject matter experts
- Due to the advanced nature of the topics delivered, trainers who are senior practitioners in their field are sourced, recruited, and contracted to share their relevant experience and expertise
- PLUS ensures that all trainers, content, and facilitation meet Meirc’s high and reputable standards of quality, reliability, and integrity
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