Commercial Contracts 2023: Evolving Provisions Highlight the Value of Compliance
Description
Businesses must deal with increasing legal and reputational risks caused by supply-chain issues, privacy requirements for both customers and data, and evolving regulatory and commercial demands. And the transactional lawyers who work in these organizations must adapt and respond to contracting and compliance challenges in an environment of fast-paced change. Incorporating new and emerging terms into contract negotiations and drafting processes ensures that businesses are prepared to meet these challenges while balancing the company’s needs, values, and risk tolerance.
This 60-minute webinar will introduce participants to new and emerging commercial contract terms and how to incorporate these terms in your negotiations and drafting. Our panel of experts will address several trending contract topics, including:
- Understanding current market standards in privacy and cybersecurity provisions in contracts to ensure ongoing compliance with U.S. and State laws, GDPR, and similar laws, including the use of addenda to address standard priorities.
- The impact of export controls, sanctions, and compliance requirements on companies engaged in cross-border trade, and how their impact may be broader than you think.
- How to include ESG requirements in contracts to advance your company’s goals and respond to stakeholder concerns.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore recent developments in commercial contract drafting and emerging contractual risk areas.
- Discover how to use contracts with vendors and customers to meet your company’s goals and responsibilities.
- Learn why legal compliance obligations should be part of the contracting process
Who would benefit from attending this program?
Commercial practitioners, particularly law firm associates, and in-house counsel, who are on the front line of negotiating, drafting, and documenting modern commercial arrangements. Intermediate learning level.
Moderator: Denis Demblowski
- Senior Legal Analyst – Transactions
- Bloomberg Law
Denis Demblowski is a senior legal analyst with Bloomberg Industry Group, focusing on commercial transactions and corporate law. He practiced in-house for 32 years at a global manufacturing and industrial company in such areas as compliance, corporate, executive compensation, finance, corporate governance, general commercial, international, M&A, and securities.
Moderator: Louann Troutman
- Legal Content Specialist
- Bloomberg Law
Louann Troutman is a content specialist on the transactional team, with a focus on cross-border commerce. She has more than 20 years of experience in covering international trade for Bloomberg Law. She earned her J.D. from George Washington University and her B.A. in International Relations from Ohio State University.
William Denny
- Partner
- Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
William R. Denny, a Partner at Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP in Wilmington, Delaware, has a business and litigation practice, focusing on commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, vendor management, data privacy and security, and information technology. Mr. Denny is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and a Certified Information Privacy Manager through the International Association of Privacy Professionals. He has represented public and privately held companies and government entities in a wide range of technology transactions, including negotiating complex cloud services agreements, software and IT infrastructure development, maintenance and support agreements, long-term materials supply agreements, outsourcing agreements, transition and site services agreements, technology licensing agreements, sales of internet domain names, and website terms of use and privacy policies. Clients include major corporations in the industrial, chemical, medical and technology sectors, as well as technology and information systems service providers and developers.
Laura Elliott
- Vice President, Corporate Counsel
- Bioventus
Laura Elliott is Vice President, Corporate Counsel at Bioventus, where she focuses on corporate legal matters, securities regulations, SEC reporting, medical device regulations, mergers and acquisitions, and other critical areas within the company. In addition to her core responsibilities, Laura is actively involved in various initiatives that reflect her commitment to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging) principles.
Within Bioventus, Laura is a member of the Privacy Committee, contributing to the company’s privacy-related decisions and ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations. She also serves as a Women in Leadership Mentoring Circle Facilitator, providing guidance and support to women professionals in their career development, and as co-leader of the Bioventus Environmental and Sustainability Employee Resource Group.
Laura has more than 18 years of experience in-house and at top-ranked law firms. Prior to joining Bioventus, Laura was with Medtronic for 12 years, most recently as Senior Legal Director and Chief Counsel for Medtronic’s ENT business.
Laura received her J.D. from Cornell Law School and holds a B.A. in Classics from Wesleyan University. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband, their two children, and their rescue dogs. Laura also volunteers at her children’s school as the room parent and serves as the Vice President of the PTO.
Cara Bradley
- Deputy General Counsel
- Everbridge
Cara Bradley is the Deputy General Counsel of Everbridge, Inc., a global software company that empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™
Cara manages a legal team that handles commercial contract negotiations, mergers and acquisitions, human resources, global compliance, and business strategy for Everbridge. Cara has worked with technology companies for 25 years, and has previously worked in house with Xylem Inc. and Schneider Electric.
Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams is a member of the litigation, regulatory, and white-collar practice group. She represents a range of clients including multinational companies, financial institutions, and other financial service providers in criminal and regulatory enforcement proceedings relating to potential economic sanctions, export control, anti-corruption, and anti-money laundering. She supports clients on employment law matters both in advisory work on training and compliance (including with respect to whistleblowers), as well as employee conduct reviews.
Michelle is a member of the Firm’s Global ESG Board and Americas ESG Board.
She received her B.A. in Political Science and French from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and her LLB/BCL from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, and has worked with Clifford Chance since 2003. Michelle is admitted to practice in New York, the District of Columbia, and Nova Scotia (Canada).
