Commercial Law for Small and Medium Enterprises
3 days|Delivered on request
Commercial Law for Small and Medium Enterprises takes the discipline and works it through the constraints of this operating context, including company secretarial practice, corporate governance and the compliance obligations that come with it. The sector framing is necessary because commercial teams routinely sign obligations that legal only sees after a dispute, and generic training rarely survives contact with the local rules. Delegates leave able to work confidently with legal risk assessment, commercial law fundamentals and board procedure in their own organisation.
What delegates leave able to do
- Explain legal risk assessment to someone who does not do the work, measured against established contract law principles
- Spot where commercial law fundamentals is failing before it becomes a finding
- Put board procedure on a footing they can defend to a reviewer
- Review data protection under POPIA and say plainly whether it is working
What the course covers
- Company secretarial practice
- Corporate governance
- Legal risk assessment
- Commercial law fundamentals
- Board procedure
- Data protection under POPIA
- Contract drafting
Who should attend
- governance practitioners
- company secretaries
- commercial managers who sign contracts
- in-house counsel
