Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts

Mark Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Law LLP and is ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners UK 2022 for both life science transactions and intellectual property. He has over 35 years’ experience of advising technology-based companies and universities based in the UK, continental Europe and the United States on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts. Victor Warner is a solicitor at Anderson Law LLP specialising in intellectual property and technology law. He is the principal author of Technology Transfer (4th Edn) and is co-author with Mark Anderson of A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (4th Edn), a companion volume to Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts, and Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Edn) (all published by Bloomsbury Professional).

• 1: Legal formalities for a binding contract2: The structure and format of the contract3: Contract drafting techniques4: Advanced drafting techniques5: Basic commercial/legal issues affecting contract drafting6: Interpretation of contracts by the courts - implications for the drafter/negotiator7: Drafting consumer contracts8: Legal terms and lawyers' jargon9: Termination10: Techniques for checking contracts before signing them11: Drafting, exchanging and protecting documents electronicallyAppendix: Sample Agreements

This book is an absolute gem...The authors leave no stone unturned as they explore various types of commercial contract...This is a remarkable and highly practical resource that has earned its place on my bookshelf