CONTRACTS

The Firm provides advice and assistance in the negotiation and drafting of all types of contracts and commercial agreements, including, inter alia, engineering and construction contracts, distribution, license and franchise agreements, joint ventures, consortia, international and domestic sales of goods, supply agreements, transportation contracts, joint operating agreements, contracts for the use of land, lease and management contracts and outsourcing arrangements.

Our practice involves the drafting of hardship clauses, letters of intent, guarantees, documentary credits, letters of patronage, privacy and confidentiality agreements, general terms and conditions of contracts, as well as advice on product liability and consumer protection issues.

We have acquired a sound expertise in complex multi-jurisdictional transactions which raise issues of private international law, such as applicable law, forum and venue choice, recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions and arbitral awards. Our lawyers undertake work for clients involving international conventions and international restatements or consolidated texts, such as the Vienna Convention on International Sales of Goods, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the UNCITRAL Model Laws and the ICC Incoterms.