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Increasing volumes of cross-border work have created a need for contracts that work well in both English and Chinese. Unfortunately, differences in lawyers' backgrounds, drafting conventions and rules of interpretation mean that poor drafting can have extremely damaging consequences when a contract needs to withstand judicial scrutiny across jurisdictional borders.
In this session, Practical Law China Head of Editorial Peter Davies and Senior Editor Vivian Yuan will provide practical, specific and actionable advice on how to draft contracts in English and Chinese. Structured as a walk-through of the contract creation process from pre-draft to execution, this session will cover:
• What clients pay for when they pay lawyers to draft
• What to do before you start to draft a bilingual contract
• How to decide which language version should govern
• Rules of interpretation – key points
• How to negotiate a bilingual contract
• Frequently encountered issues in bilingual English-Chinese drafting
• How to maintain bilingual precedents

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