
Contract Negotiation Handbook
Getting the Most Out of Commercial Deals
Damian Ward(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-7314-0720-0 (ISBN)
Description
A good commercial contract is both a springboard and a safety net -- it provides the opportunity to expand and grow your business, but also to protect it if things go wrong. In a tough commercial world, getting the best deal you can is paramount.
The Contract Negotiation Handbook demystifies complex legal principles so that busy businesspeople can quickly and easily digest them. With clear, practical examples and case studies to help illustrate and explain different types of contracts and contractual situations, this comprehensive handbook will help you:
- prepare for negotiations and identify contractual terms
- make sure you have covered the 'springboard and the safety net' -- combining the appealing and less appealing aspects of contracts
- identify the type of negotiator that your counter party is and how that affects your negotiations
- develop an overview of contract law
- devise a negotiation strategy
- identify whether you are in a contractual dispute
- prepare for and acquire the best result out of any contractual dispute.
The Contract Negotiation Handbook demystifies complex legal principles so that busy businesspeople can quickly and easily digest them. With clear, practical examples and case studies to help illustrate and explain different types of contracts and contractual situations, this comprehensive handbook will help you:
- prepare for negotiations and identify contractual terms
- make sure you have covered the 'springboard and the safety net' -- combining the appealing and less appealing aspects of contracts
- identify the type of negotiator that your counter party is and how that affects your negotiations
- develop an overview of contract law
- devise a negotiation strategy
- identify whether you are in a contractual dispute
- prepare for and acquire the best result out of any contractual dispute.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Milton, QLD
Australia
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7314-0720-0 (9780731407200)
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Person
Damian Ward is a partner in Home Wilkinson Lowry, an Australia-wide commercial law firm. Damian has written extensively about contract preparation and negotiation, and has a monthly column in Managing Information Strategies (MIS) magazine. Throughout his career, Damian has assisted countless clients to resolve disputes arising from contracts.
Content
About the author v
Introduction vii
Part I - The contractual environment
1 Springboard and safety net 3
2 Contracts - what are they? 13
Part II - Doing the deal
3 Preparing to do the deal 69
4 Negotiating - doing the deal 91
5 Terms of contracts to keep an eye on 100
6 Traps for the seller - pitfalls in negotiations 130
7 The telltale signs of the overseller - buyer beware 147
8 The 'red zones' 159
Part III - The relationship ends
9 In the contract 167
10 What happens if the contract is breached? 179
11 All good things come to an end - termination of contracts 190
12 Things ended badly - how you know you are in a dispute 194
13 Making peace early 217
14 Getting help to fi x the problem - but the warring parties decide 223
15 Getting help to fi x the problem - someone else decides 234
16 Preparing for battle - getting ready for the hearing 244
17 Preparing the case for hearing 247
18 In summing up 270
Appendix: The cheat sheet 272
Glossary 275
Index 279
Introduction vii
Part I - The contractual environment
1 Springboard and safety net 3
2 Contracts - what are they? 13
Part II - Doing the deal
3 Preparing to do the deal 69
4 Negotiating - doing the deal 91
5 Terms of contracts to keep an eye on 100
6 Traps for the seller - pitfalls in negotiations 130
7 The telltale signs of the overseller - buyer beware 147
8 The 'red zones' 159
Part III - The relationship ends
9 In the contract 167
10 What happens if the contract is breached? 179
11 All good things come to an end - termination of contracts 190
12 Things ended badly - how you know you are in a dispute 194
13 Making peace early 217
14 Getting help to fi x the problem - but the warring parties decide 223
15 Getting help to fi x the problem - someone else decides 234
16 Preparing for battle - getting ready for the hearing 244
17 Preparing the case for hearing 247
18 In summing up 270
Appendix: The cheat sheet 272
Glossary 275
Index 279