Workshop on

Contract Drafting & Management

17th July 2019 - The Lalit, Bengaluru

20th July 2019 - JW Marriott, Mumbai

27th July 2019 - The Lalit, Delhi

Introduction
This highly interactive seminar focuses on how your organisation can minimise its exposure to risk,
reduce costs and the potential for disputes by discussing the key aspects of understanding, drafting
and negotiating contracts. It identifies how clear and concise drafting can produce greater
efficiencies in your organisation. It also features how to monitor and manage performance failures,
and provides tools, tips and techniques on effective resolution of disputes to minimise cost and
reputational risk exposure to your organisation.

Skilled negotiators can help not only to minimise risk and increase profit for your organisation, but
can also set the foundation for long and mutually beneficial relationships. This seminar provides
practical guidance and key strategies and techniques to appreciably enhance your ability to
negotiate more favourable contracts, and to better negotiate solutions to disputes that may arise.

Program Objective
No contract will be successful unless - it is underpinned by sound contract management and
administration. More often than note it is the support team involved in the background of a contract
that ensures it is a success.

This course will help you to understand how the effective drafting & management of a contract can
deliver the goals it set out to achieve.

Who Should Attend

This seminar will benefit all levels of personnel involved in any aspect of contract procurement and
implementation. It will enable a broad range of disciplines to appreciate and understand effective
negotiating and drafting, and managing contracts.
This course is appropriate to a wide range of professionals but will
greatly benefit

 Project and General Management

 Contracts administrators, managers and claims handlers
 Procurement and purchasing staff
 Engineering, operational and maintenance personnel
 Commercial, financial and insurance professionals

Programe Outcome
At the end of the course delegates will:

 Able to draft the contract from

( a) Scratch and (b) modify the Contract template

Understand the contribution that contract administration can deliver

 Be better able to minimize contractual risk

 Manage change during the contract from a risk and legal perspective
 Shall be able in making Negotiation strategy
 Understand and draft contractual terms and conditions
 Have identified all the benefits of alternative dispute resolution methods

About the Trainer - Mr. Chetan Kavdia

Chelan Kavdia is Contract & Claims Specialist, LLB. , BE (Mechanical), PGD. PEM (NICMAR). He
has diverse experience in contract / commercial management, supplier relationship, government
contracts, dispute resolution, arbitration, litigation in Power, Metro, Roads & Highways..

He has worked with leading construction companies such as GE Power, FLSmidth India, Hitachi Rail
STS, Dodsal & HCC Infrastructure, handling Contract Management functions including Claims and
Dispute Resolution.

He is presently working as a Consultant in a Legal firm from Mumbai– Solicis Lex, Advocates &
Solicitors.

Topics Covered
This course will cover the following key topics:

1. Understanding the legal environment

 Basic legal principles

 Essentials for a valid contract
 Conditions and warranties
 Making the contract
 Offer and acceptance
 Statute law affecting contracts
2. Drafting the contract

 Drafting starts with effective thinking

 The key objective
 Communication and the barriers to overcome
 The craft of contract drafting
 Closing loopholes
 Defined terms; precise language (Contract drafting Tips)
 The specific and the general
 Termination clauses
 Traps for the unwary

3. Some contract scenarios

 The enquiry and the bid

 Time and materials
 Fixed price
 Pricing or associated costs

4. Contract terms and conditions

 How to deal with the 'small print'

 Consortia, joint ventures and collaborations
 Choices of law and jurisdiction
 Force majeure and its implications
 Time is of the essence

5. Effective administration techniques

 What is the purpose of the contracts function?

 The extent of its involvement; what is needed?
 Terms of reference
 Early warning systems
 Some maxims of contract administration

6. How to obtain legal remedies

 The advantages and disadvantages of litigation and ADR

 Choosing the appropriate method of redress
 Obtaining redress while the contract is operating
Methodology & Certificates-

 Demonstration of actual documents, Lectures & Interaction

 A Certificate of participation will be presented to the participants

Timings: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm, Registration begins at 9:00 am

How to Register:

 Fees: Rs. 9,500/- +18% GST Per participant

 Please write to register@princetonacademy.co.in/ Call -022 67256200
 Mention the name of participant, company, contact details .
 Cheque favoring Princeton Academy Mumbai II Pvt. Ltd. payable at Mumbai.
 Fees includes lunch, tea, course material etc.

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