Contract Formation, Contract Negotiations, Breach of Contract

Warning to Small Business Owners: Don’t Contract Your Way Out of a Local Venue!

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 4/10/2025

Small business owners often wait for things to go wrong before consulting with attorneys. This is understandable. Consulting a lawyer can delay a transaction and nobody likes the added expense....more

Governing Service Provider Relationships: Seven Legal Tips for Strengthening and Leveraging Contract Rights

Mayer Brown on 5/20/2022

Too often, contract rights bargained and paid for in negotiations are eroded during governance. This podcast describes seven tips for governing service provider relationships in ways that leverage or strengthen contract...more

Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review, 4th Edition - England & Wales

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/5/2022

Litigation is, on one analysis, all about telling stories to impartial decision makers. Complex commercial litigation means that those stories are more detailed, more involved and more intricate. That means that telling the...more

Breach of Contract in Texas

Freeman Law on 12/27/2021

Contracts play an important role in day-to-day business operations and drive economic activity across the globe. And when one party to a contract fails to live up to its obligations, the other party or parties may be...more

First No Contract by Ambush. Now No Contract by Email, Texas Supreme Court Says.

A&O Shearman on 3/5/2020

On February 28, 2020, the Texas Supreme Court reversed a ruling from the First Court of Appeals in Houston in the case of Chalker Energy Partners III, LLC, et al. v. Le Norman Operating LLC, 547 S.W.3d 27 (Tex. App.—Houston,...more

Sanctioned default? The English High Court considers the effect of foreign illegality on English obligations

White & Case LLP on 10/7/2019

As sanctions ramp up globally, it is increasingly important for commercial parties engaged in cross border transactions to have certainty (i) as promisees (e.g. lenders) as to when their counterparties may legitimately avoid...more

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter/Spring 2018 Edition: Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance - Did you just commit to...

Dechert LLP on 4/5/2018

The question of when parties to a potential transaction actually become bound to each other is obviously an important one, and sometimes the answer can be surprising, or less than entirely clear. A recent Texas Court of...more

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