Contract Law Essentials for Commercial Managers
Commercial managers sign, vary and enforce agreements long before a lawyer sees them. Formation, breach, penalty clauses...
- Next session
- 5 to 7 Oct 2026
- Venue
- Johannesburg
- 3 day programme
- FromR13,000
90 programmes in legal, contracts and fraud, available as public courses, online delivery or in-house training for your own team.
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Commercial managers sign, vary and enforce agreements long before a lawyer sees them. Formation, breach, penalty clauses...
Bid rigging, shell suppliers and undeclared family interests tend to leave the same traces in a procurement file.
An internal investigation that ignores the rules of evidence can cost an employer the disciplinary case and the criminal one.
Customer due diligence, risk rating and suspicious transaction reporting are daily work for accountable institutions.
Most serious fraud is reported by a colleague, not found by an auditor. Building a reporting channel people actually trust means...
Line managers make daily decisions that carry legal weight, often without realising it.
Equip commercial teams to draft, review and negotiate contracts that protect organisational interests under South African law.
Give directors and company secretaries a practical grounding in the Companies Act, King IV principles and directors' fiduciary duties.
Help sales, marketing and procurement staff recognise conduct that breaches the Competition Act before it becomes a costly investigation.
Build a practical anti-corruption programme covering the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, facilitation payments...
Give managers and compliance staff a working understanding of the Protection of Personal Information Act and its practical impact on daily...
Help retail, e-commerce and service businesses align pricing, advertising, warranties and returns practices with the Consumer Protection...
Equip HR practitioners and managers to design and defend employment equity plans while avoiding unfair discrimination claims.
Prepare project managers and quantity surveyors to administer FIDIC and JBCC contracts through the full project lifecycle.
Prepare exporters, importers and logistics staff to negotiate and manage cross-border trade contracts with confidence.
Prepare legal, IT and risk teams to respond to cybercrime incidents in a way that preserves evidence and supports prosecution or civil...
Give credit managers, financial staff and legal advisers a practical grip on business rescue proceedings and insolvency risk under the...
Give supervisors, safety officers and managers a working understanding of duties under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and related...
Equip bid teams to prepare compliant, competitive tender submissions for South African public sector procurement.
Prepare environmental, legal and operations staff to manage compliance obligations under the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development...
Help commercial and operations teams turn signed contracts into measurable performance.
Give commercial teams a working grasp of how to protect and commercialise brands, inventions and creative work.
Equip managers who are not lawyers to recognise legal exposure before it becomes a costly problem.
Show credit and legal teams how to move a bad debt from overdue invoice to enforced judgment.
Build the discipline that keeps a contract portfolio under control from signature to closeout.
Teach commercial teams how to resolve disputes without the cost and delay of open court.
Prepare finance, operations and IT teams to defend against the fraud that now arrives by email and electronic payment.
Give franchisors, franchisees and distributors a practical understanding of the agreements that govern their relationships.
Strengthen an organisation against fraud committed by its own employees. This programme covers the fraud triangle...
Show managers and commercial teams how to protect sensitive information and key relationships through well drafted agreements.
Give property, facilities and finance teams the skills to negotiate and administer commercial leases that protect the organisation across...
Equip finance and audit professionals to detect, quantify and document financial statement manipulation using forensic accounting...
Train claims, underwriting and investigation teams to spot and investigate fraudulent insurance claims across short term...
Help operations, banking and customer service teams defend against identity theft, SIM swap and account takeover schemes that are...
Enable risk, audit and finance teams to map fraud exposures across the organisation and design controls that actually prevent loss.
Show procurement, compliance and legal teams how to screen agents, distributors and suppliers before onboarding them...
Give frontline, finance and compliance staff a practical grounding in spotting money laundering and filing quality suspicious transaction...
Train procurement, audit and competition compliance teams to detect and disrupt bid rigging and supplier collusion in tender processes.
Help legal, commercial and operations teams contract confidently in a paperless environment.
Equip commercial and operations teams to structure and govern outsourcing and managed services agreements that deliver value without losing...
Help in house legal, risk and management teams take control of disputes and get better outcomes and value from external lawyers.
Support HR, ethics and risk leaders to move fraud prevention from policy documents into everyday behaviour.
Prepare legal, compliance and IT teams to respond to a personal data breach quickly, lawfully and calmly.
Give commercial and project teams the tools to manage contracts when circumstances change and disagreements arise.
Help operations, warehouse and finance teams stop the most common form of occupational fraud...
Support compliance, procurement and management teams to draw a clear line between legitimate business courtesy and corruption.
Prepare compliance, legal and management teams to work constructively with regulators and respond well when inspections...
Help legal and commercial teams reduce risk and speed up deals by standardising contracts and giving business users clear negotiation...
Equip privacy, legal and IT teams operating across African markets to move personal data between countries lawfully.
Help manufacturers, distributors and retailers manage the legal risk that comes with the products they place in the market.
Build the questioning skills that turn a fraud suspicion into a defensible admission. Delegates practise cognitive and confrontational...
Payroll is one of the largest recurring cash outflows and a persistent fraud target across African public and private payrolls.
A structured development programme for those stepping into the money laundering reporting and compliance officer role at banks, insurers...
Fraud increasingly hides in transaction data, and manual sampling rarely finds it. This hands on course teaches auditors and investigators...
Governments across Africa rely on public private partnerships and concessions to deliver roads, power, water and social infrastructure.
A well drafted contract of employment and a clear policy set prevent most workplace disputes before they start.
Credit providers, retailers offering accounts and microlenders operate under strict responsible lending obligations.
Virtual assets are increasingly used to move, launder and hide the proceeds of fraud across African markets.
Financial services firms face a dense web of conduct, prudential and market integrity obligations.
Acquiring, holding and disposing of property carries legal risk that many businesses underestimate.
Travel and expense claims are a low value high frequency fraud channel that quietly drains budgets in many African organisations.
The protection a contract actually delivers often lives in its warranties, indemnities and guarantees...
The in house legal team is expected to manage risk, control cost and deliver at speed.
A code of conduct only changes behaviour when it is embedded, communicated and enforced.
When partners come together in a company or venture, the shareholder agreement decides who controls what and how disputes are settled.
African exporters, importers and financial institutions are increasingly exposed to international sanctions and export control regimes that...
A strong investigation can still collapse if the report is weak or the evidence is poorly presented.
Marketing teams create legal exposure every time they make a claim, run a competition or use someone else's content.
When litigation, an investigation or a regulator arrives, the records an organisation kept or destroyed decide much of the outcome.
Fictitious suppliers, shell companies and manipulated vendor records let insiders divert payments while the books appear normal.
Preliminary agreements shape deals long before the final contract is signed, yet a loosely worded memorandum of understanding can create...
As African organisations move workloads to the cloud and adopt subscription software, the contracts behind those services carry hidden...
Buying or selling a business or a bundle of assets involves far more than agreeing a price.
Ambiguous, cluttered contract language causes disputes, delays and unenforceable clauses.
Companies expanding across African markets often rely on agents and sales representatives...
Online selling, digital payments and click to accept contracts have transformed African commerce...
Ending the employment relationship is where most costly labour disputes arise, from unfair dismissal claims to flawed retrenchment...
Cartel conduct such as price fixing, market allocation and collusive tendering attracts the heaviest competition penalties across African...
When a regulator arrives unannounced or issues a formal request for information, the first hours determine whether an organisation protects...
Loan and credit fraud, from falsified income documents to synthetic identities, causes major losses for African lenders and microfinance...
Development and humanitarian organisations across Africa handle large donor funds under intense compliance scrutiny...
Fraud, waste and abuse drain a significant share of health funding across African medical schemes, insurers and public health systems.
Mobile money and app based lending have driven financial inclusion across Africa, but they also open fast moving channels for account...
SIM swap and telecommunications fraud have become gateways to draining bank accounts and hijacking identities across African markets.
Modern disputes and investigations turn on emails, chat messages, spreadsheets and system logs...
Organisations are bound by whoever signs on their behalf, so unclear mandates and outdated powers of attorney create serious contract and...
Technology deals, from core banking systems to hardware and integration projects, are among the most complex and dispute prone contracts an...
Fleet, fuel and transport operations are a persistent source of loss across African organisations...
Companies operating across multiple African markets face overlapping anti corruption laws...
Shrinkage at the till and on the shop floor quietly erodes retail margins across African stores, driven by refund scams, void abuse...