Highlights: 

• Drafting Contracts
• Contract Negotiation
• Understanding Commercial Terms
• Understanding Employment Law
• Implementing Organizational Employment Practices
• Understanding Intellectual Property

About the Special Executive Masters Programme
The MSBM Special Executive Masters Programme is short certificate modules designed for anyone who would benefit from more in-depth business knowledge delivered in a short and intensive Programme. This Programme is suitable for successful professionals or specialists in the private, public or non-profit making sectors that have new management responsibilities and need to quickly expand their management knowledge.

The (SEMP) Programme serves as a refresher course for those who have had their Masters a long time ago and need a quick reminder or as an academic update while it serves as a crash Programme for those very experienced professionals who never made time out for their masters yet they require the academic and practical relevance of this masters’ experience. It is a good Programme for individuals who are newly promoted to the managerial post, the program enables them to acclimatize to the new position as well as help them intake the right decisions.

Objectives

 By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• 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 labour law requirements

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for those with little or no formal training in commercial law yet would be required to understand the fundamentals of commercial law as it may directly impact their work.

It will particularly benefit:

- Directors and executives who have direct responsibility for legal decisions within the Organization.

- In-house counsel

- Those working within a legal department will also find this course highly beneficial.

Modules

Day 1: Commercial Law overview & Contracts

 The terminology used in commercial law

Types of contracts

Legal considerations

Common law

Civil law

The legal formalities in contract creation

Commercial contract interpretation issues

Remedies for breach of contract

 

Day 2: 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

 

Day 3: 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

 

Day 4: Managing risk

Prevention is better than cure: Effective risk management

Intellectual property rights management:

• Applying copyright
• Applying for trademarks
• Industrial property

Day 5: Other legal considerations

 Employment issues:

• Labour law
• Recruitment and termination
• Employment contracts

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

There is no strict Academic Requirement for this Programme as it is a Non-Credit Bearing Programme. However, Students are expected to have working experience as a Team Lead, Supervisor or Manager.

UAE VISA

Please check with your Country’s Ministry of Foreign Affair to know if you require a UAE VISA to come into the country. 

If you do require a UAE Visa, kindly send down the following documents:

- Editable application form including DOB, Email ID, contact no, home address & signature.
- Scanned copy of your International Passport Data Page.
- E-copy of your Passport Photograph.

Your Visa and Hotel Confirmation Slip, (if handled by us) along with your Joining Instructions would be sent to you before the program commences.

UK VISA

Please check with your Country’s Ministry of Foreign Affair to know if you require a UK VISA to come into the country. 

If you do require a UK Visa, kindly note that you are required to handle this on your own without any recourse to us.

We advise that Delegates already hold a UK Visa with at least 3 months' validity before registering for the Programme.

Your Hotel Confirmation Slip, (if handled by us) along with your Joining Instructions would be sent to you before the program commences.