Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms

by Saleem Sheikh, Susan Singleton

Overview

Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms is an essential resource for commercial contract drafters, providing useful background and detailed advice on the law surrounding a wide range of agreements, and assisting the drafter in preparing watertight legal agreements.
The Sixth Edition is fully updated to include:
- Implications of force majeure and material adverse change
- Revised Incoterms 2020
- Impact of sanctions on imports and exports
- Smart legal contracts
- Consumer reforms for online shopping
- Liability and exclusion clauses
- Contractual interpretation
- Commission payments and success fees
- The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023
- Impact of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
It includes expert guidance on Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer agreements, providing you with an excellent tool for drafting commercial contracts.
This book also includes online access to downloadable precedents.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526525222
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	560
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Saleem Sheikh is a highly regarded author and expert in company and commercial law, with an extensive body of work that includes practitioner and academic books, journal articles, and contributions to key legal texts. His publications include Company Law: The Fundamentals and Company Law Handbook, both published by Bloomsbury Professional - as well as A Guide to the Companies Act 2006 (Routledge). In addition to his written works, Saleem serves as the editor of a leading UK publication focused on international company and commercial law. His contributions have established him as a respected authority in the field of corporate and commercial law and governance.

Susan Singleton is a solicitor and founder of Singletons Solicitors (www.singlelaw.com), a commercial firm, which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on software contracts, data protection and IP and IT law. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for five years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020, she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. Susan is the author/editor of several Bloomsbury Professional titles, including E-Commerce and Convergence: A Guide to the Law of Digital Media, Commercial Agency Agreements: Law and Practice and Negotiating Software Contracts.
Saleem Sheikh has written extensively on company commercial matters for law journals, including practitioners' books on company law, business law transactions, corporate governance and corporate social responsibilities. He is also the editor of a leading UK publication on international company and commercial law.
Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial firm of solicitors, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on commercial, IT/IP, corporate, data protection, competition law and contracts including some litigation. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 52 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She has given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. She publishes nine subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today and Finance and Credit Law. She practised first at London law firms Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12, her oldest son avoided the law and her twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

Table of Contents

Section A: Commentary
A1: Forming and Concluding a Contracts
A2: Common and Specific Clauses
A3: Export Contracts – Special Issues
A4: Software Contracts – Special Issues

Section B: Business-to-Business Contracts
B1: Terms and Conditions for the Sale of Goods
B2: Terms and Conditions of Purchase
B3: Licence of Computer Software – Buyer/Licence
B4: Professional Services Agreement – Supplier
B5: Professional Services Agreement – Buyer
B6: Terms and Conditions for Sale of Goods by Export – Supplier
B7: Terms and Conditions for Purchase of Goods by Services by Import – Buyer

Section C: Business-to-Consumer Contracts
C1: Consumer Contracts – Distance Selling
C2: Hire Purchase Contracts
C3: Outline Terms and Conditions of Sale
C4: Online Terms and Conditions for the Supply of Software