Essentials of Commercial Contract Law

In today’s organizational operations, knowledge in the law of contract is crucial for officers and executives to discharge their duties properly. This course focuses on those contracts commonly used in daily commercial transactions. Through this course, participants will be introduced to terms in different types of commercial contract commonly encountered in procurement of goods and services and business arrangements.  The course will also cover the key case laws and the main means of alternative dispute resolution in relation to contractual disputes in commercial transactions, with reference to local and overseas experience.

Ms. Ivy Leung
Barrister-at-Law
HKMAAL accredited mediator

Ivy is a practising barrister, an accredited mediator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, UK. Before embarked on this profession, she has worked in the private sector mainly for large German based corporations and in the area of marketing and business development. She has participated in the development of a number of joint-venture projects, including power plant projects, packaging projects and merger & acquisitions etc.

Her main area of practice includes shareholder disputes, conveyancing disputes, construction disputes and cross-border disputes. She also drafts and settles commercial agreements and gives legal advice to multi-national companies.

Ivy is a seasoned speaker who has been co-operating with local universities (HKU SPACE and PolyU, etc.) in recent years and teaching courses of various legal topics. She is a visiting lecturer of the PolyU as well as an Adjunct Lecturer of HKU SPACE. With more than 10 years of teaching experience, Ivy is dedicated to designing and teaching courses for both in-house training and public courses, feedback is very positive from participants.

Training Topics