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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Commercial Law

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Thursday, January 5, 2023

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$297.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE course will advise counsel on negotiating and structuring remedy provisions contained in commercial contracts, as well as the considerations for such provisions in the current economic environment.

Faculty

Harsh Arora
Partner
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Mr. Arora concentrates in the areas of domestic and international corporate transactions and related business dispute resolution. He counsels public and privately held companies as a boardroom advisor and a courtroom advocate in high-stakes corporate matters. Mr. Arora serves as general counsel for businesses with a prominent national or international presence. His general counsel practice focuses on preventative counseling and business structuring. Mr. Arora advises clients on mergers, acquisitions, conversions, and domestications. He has handled a wide range of business closings, negotiations, trademark registrations, corporate governance, industry-focused due diligence for regulatory aspects of proposed deals, and business tax matters in connection with audits by tax authorities. Mr. Arora also assists clients with dispute resolution relating to corporate transactions through business litigation, arbitrations, and mediations. He handles complex cases such as parallel civil and administrative proceedings, multidistrict actions, and bet-the-company litigation.

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Karl F. Oles
Partner
Stoel Rives LLP

For more than 30 years, Mr. Oles has helped owners, architects, engineers, and contractors solve complex legal problems through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and trial. He has also drafted, negotiated, and analyzed multimillion-dollar design and construction contracts on a wide variety of construction projects. Mr. Oles serves as an arbitrator on the American Arbitration Association’s construction panel. He is co-author of the current standard treatise on Washington lien law.

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Description

Remedies provisions outlining the damages available to contracting parties in a contractual breach are heavily negotiated clauses in a wide array of commercial agreements. These provisions can help the non-defaulting party maximize recovery and shield them from excessive damages, including monetary damages, specific performance, and equitable remedies.

Unfortunately, counsel often relies on the ill-defined terms "special, indirect, or consequential damages," a phrase that has lacked a reliable and predictable definition for 160 years of jurisprudence. Counsel must also consider when and how to approach consequential damage waivers, liquidated damages, attorneys' fees, and exclusive remedies clauses to minimize legal and practical challenges when enforcing remedies. The parties must also ensure that the scope of the remedies provision interacts with the indemnity and insurance provisions in the contract.

Listen as our authoritative panel discusses strategies for business counsel negotiating and drafting remedies provisions in commercial contracts. The panel will discuss best practices to protect client interests during contract negotiation and remedy enforcement.

Outline

  1. Common remedies provisions
    1. Special, indirect, and consequential damages
    2. Liquidated damages
    3. Attorneys' fees
    4. Exclusive remedies
    5. Other remedies
  2. Damage waivers
  3. Interplay with indemnity
  4. Interplay with insurance requirements
  5. Negotiating, drafting, and enforcing risk allocations
    1. Negotiation considerations and strategies
    2. Enforcement considerations and strategies

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the most commonly negotiated remedies in commercial contracts?
  • What best practices should counsel to contracting parties apply when negotiating and drafting remedies provisions?
  • What legal and practical challenges do counsel to contracting parties face when seeking to enforce remedies provisions--and how can they overcome them?
  • What is the interplay between the remedies provision and the indemnity and insurance provisions in commercial contracts?