Draft and negotiate a commercial contract from a term sheet
Commercial Contract Drafting and Negotiation
Live cohort 48 teaching hours Up to 15 learners per cohort Not yet scheduled Fee not yet set
Draft a sale-of-goods or services agreement from a one-page term sheet without a template crutch.
- Format
- Live cohort
- Teaching hours
- 48 teaching hours
- Next cohort
- Not yet scheduled
- Fee
- Not yet set — published here as one GST-inclusive figure with a per-teaching-hour rate.
- Refund
- Full refund until your second class
- Cohort size
- Up to 15 learners per cohort · every draft reviewed
How a cohort on this course is planned to run
- Sessions a week
- Not yet decided. We will publish it before this cohort opens.
- Day and time
- Not yet decided. We will publish it before this cohort opens.
- Reviewed-draft turnaround
- 3 working days for a full draft, 2 working days for a short one, counted from the day after your draft arrives; the review is due by 11:59 pm India time on the last of them.
- Redraft
- One redraft of every reviewed document is included.
- Who marks your draft
- A faculty reviewer marks every submitted draft. Planned: up to 3 reviewers per cohort.
- Free sit-in session
- One free session, to watch only, once this course’s cohorts are scheduled. A guest does not submit a draft for review.
- Recordings
- Every class is recorded; you watch it in the site’s own player, with resume-where-you-left-off and playback speed up to 2x — on your phone and your laptop at once. How many classes a week, and on which days, is not yet decided.
Who this is for
For
- In-house counsel or a legal-ops hire expected to draft and negotiate vendor, customer and partner agreements without escalating every clause to outside counsel.
- A litigator moving into transactional practice who can read a contract but has not yet drafted one from a blank page.
- A law-firm associate on a general-corporate team who currently marks up drafts but wants to run the negotiation call directly.
Not for
- Anyone whose immediate need is M&A or investment documentation — that is covered end to end in “Corporate Transactions: Due Diligence, M&A and Investment Documentation.”
- Anyone whose immediate need is running an arbitration for a live or imminent dispute rather than drafting a fresh commercial deal — see “Arbitration Practice: Domestic and International.”
- Anyone looking specifically for employment contracts, POSH policy or termination documentation — that is “Employment Law and Workplace Compliance.”
- Someone with no prior exposure to Indian contract law at all — this builds drafting fluency, it is not an introduction to what a contract is.
What you leave with
- Draft a sale-of-goods or services agreement from a one-page term sheet without a template crutch.
- Write an indemnity clause that correctly allocates risk between two named parties on a supplied fact pattern.
- Identify and redline three commercially unfavourable clauses in a supplied vendor contract.
- Run a negotiation call on a limitation-of-liability clause and produce the resulting markup.
- Draft a dispute-resolution clause consistent with a chosen arbitration seat and institution.
How a cohort runs
Live session
You join a live class, in a browser, and work through that session's material with the rest of the cohort.
You draft
You produce a real document from the session, such as a clause, a notice or a checklist, not a summary of what was said.
15.1 The Vendor shall indemnify the Company for all losses whatsoever arising under this Agreement.
Reviewed in green
The faculty marks up your draft the way a senior marks a junior's work: insertions in green, deletions struck through, with a note against anything that needs one.
15.1 The Vendor shall indemnify
the Company for all losses whatsoever arising under this Agreement.and hold harmless the Company against Losses arising from (a) the Vendor’s breach of this Agreement, (b) the negligence or wilful misconduct of the Vendor or its personnel, and (c) any third-party claim that the Services infringe intellectual property rights. “Losses” means losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees.You draft it again
You revise against the markup and produce the next draft. That is the loop, session by session, for the length of the course.
15.1 The Vendor shall indemnify and hold harmless the Company against Losses arising from (a) the Vendor’s breach of this Agreement, (b) the negligence or wilful misconduct of the Vendor or its personnel, and (c) any third-party claim that the Services infringe intellectual property rights. “Losses” means losses, damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees.
How this cohort runs
Delivered live, cohort by cohort, over video — the same cohort throughout. Every module ends with a drafting or redlining exercise reviewed in the next live session, not a self-paced recorded lecture series.
Who teaches it
Named here before enrolment opens, with the modules each person teaches.
Commercial contracts
Lead faculty, Commercial contracts — named before enrolment opens.
Teaches and reviews
- Module 1: Foundations of Commercial Contracts6 hours
- Module 2: Contract Architecture & Boilerplate Clauses8 hours
- Module 3: Risk Allocation — Indemnity, Liability Caps & Warranties8 hours
- Module 4: Sector Contracts I — Sale of Goods, Services & Licensing8 hours
- Module 5: Negotiation Practice & Redlining10 hours
- Module 6: Contract Lifecycle Management & Dispute-Avoidance Drafting8 hours
You will see who teaches you before you can pay.
Syllabus
Module 1: Foundations of Commercial Contracts6 hours
- Offer, acceptance and consideration in a commercial setting.
- Contract structure: recitals, operative clauses, schedules.
- Reading a term sheet before drafting from it.
Module 2: Contract Architecture & Boilerplate Clauses8 hours
- Definitions and interpretation clauses; conditions precedent.
- Representations and warranties versus covenants.
- Notices, assignment, severability and entire-agreement clauses.
Module 3: Risk Allocation — Indemnity, Liability Caps & Warranties8 hours
- Drafting an indemnity that allocates the risk actually intended.
- Liability caps, carve-outs and consequential-loss exclusions.
- Insurance-backed warranties.
Module 4: Sector Contracts I — Sale of Goods, Services & Licensing8 hours
- A sale-of-goods agreement under the Sale of Goods Act, 1930.
- A services/SLA agreement with deliverable-based milestones.
- A software/IP licensing agreement — grant, scope, sublicensing.
Module 5: Negotiation Practice & Redlining10 hours
- Running a redline exchange end to end.
- Negotiating limitation-of-liability and termination clauses live.
- Drafting a negotiation position paper before a call.
Module 6: Contract Lifecycle Management & Dispute-Avoidance Drafting8 hours
- Renewal and escalation clauses.
- Dispute-resolution clause drafting (feeds into, does not duplicate, arbitration practice).
- Contract repository practice and exit/transition clauses.
Total: 48 teaching hours. That is the figure the per-hour price will be calculated from.
Prerequisites
No law degree required. Comfort reading a contract in English is assumed — drafting experience in a legal, legal-ops or commercial role helps, but this is a practice course, not a first introduction to contract law.
What we have not settled yet
Published because you would find out anyway, and because a course page that only lists what is decided is not telling you what you are buying.
- Cohort dates
- Not yet scheduled. Everyone on the notify list gets the dates and the price at the same time. There is no early-bird price and no pre-booking.
- Faculty
- Lead faculty, Commercial contracts — named before enrolment opens. We name the person teaching each module before you are asked to pay, not after.
- Price
- Not yet set. When it is set it appears here as one GST-inclusive figure, with the tax broken out and the price per teaching hour beside it. We do not quote prices on a call.
- Certificate
- Whether this course issues a completion certificate, and exactly what such a certificate would and would not say, is not yet settled. It will be answered on this page before a price appears on it. Whatever we decide, we will not describe any certificate as a qualification, a recognition or an accreditation, because it would not be one.
Three things you can hold us to
We have taught nobody yet, so we have no testimonials and will not manufacture any. These are the substitute: three promises you can check, each published in full and each enforceable against us.
Priced in the open
When a price is set it appears on the course page as one GST-inclusive figure, with the tax broken out and the price per teaching hour printed beside it. We do not quote prices on a call, and there is no price you get only by asking. We print a per-teaching-hour rate so you can compare us with anyone.
A refund with a clock on it
Cancel before your cohort starts, or after only its first class if you tell us before the second begins, and you are refunded everything you paid, including the tax, with no administration fee and no reason required. The clock stops the moment you tell us. After that, you get a full refund if we cancel, change or misdescribe what you bought.
You may criticise us in public
A written undertaking never to sue, threaten, send a takedown notice about, or gag anyone who criticises us — including criticism that is unfair or simply wrong. And the other half of it: we do not buy, write, solicit selectively, or delete reviews.
Questions we would ask
Do I need a law degree?
No. Every course is open to anyone who wants to learn the law it covers — lawyers, law students, and people who use the law at work.
Are the classes live, or recorded?
Live. A cohort meets on a schedule and works through the syllabus together. A recording is made available to the cohort afterwards through the site’s own player, which remembers where you left off and plays back at up to 2x speed.
What happens if I miss a session?
You watch the recording. Your right to a full refund runs on which class has happened, not on which classes you personally watched: ask before your cohort’s second live class begins and you still get everything back, whether or not you watched the first one live.
Will somebody telephone me?
No. There is no counsellor and no callback. If you join the notify list you get one e-mail when the dates and the price are published, and every e-mail carries a one-click way off the list.
Do I get a certificate?
Whether this course issues a completion certificate, and exactly what such a certificate would and would not say, is not yet settled. It will be answered on this page before a price appears on it. Whatever we decide, we will not describe any certificate as a qualification, a recognition or an accreditation, because it would not be one.
What if I want my money back?
Before your cohort starts: everything you paid, including the tax, with no administration fee and no reason required. The same is true after only the first class, if you ask before the second class begins. After that, a refund only in the cases the refund page lists. The whole policy is on the refund page, and no part of the detail takes the first sentence away.
When does the first cohort start, and what will it cost?
Neither is scheduled yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. Everyone on the notify list gets the dates and the price at the same time. There is no early-bird price and no pre-booking — being on the list buys you nothing except being told.