3-Day Intensive Course for Legal, Compliance & Business Professionals

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your journey from cross-border contracts to international compliance and dispute resolution:

Day 1: Foundations of International Business Law
Understand the legal systems governing international trade, contracts, and corporate structures. Learn jurisdiction, choice of law, and legal risk in cross-border transactions.

Day 2: Contracts, Compliance & Regulatory Frameworks
Draft and analyze international contracts (sales, agency, licensing). Understand global compliance frameworks like GDPR, FCPA, and anti-money laundering regulations.

Day 3: Dispute Resolution & Risk Management
Explore arbitration, mediation, and litigation in international contexts. Learn how to structure cross-border transactions to minimize legal exposure and enforce rights globally.

Course Overview

Global business moves fast. International law makes sure it moves fairly.
This course is designed to give legal and business professionals the tools to operate confidently across borders. Whether you’re managing contracts, handling compliance, or leading expansion, you’ll gain the legal literacy and strategic insight to manage global risk effectively.

You’ll learn how to:

• Understand core principles of international commercial law

• Identify risks in cross-border trade, contracts, and operations

• Structure contracts that work across jurisdictions

• Navigate international compliance (GDPR, FCPA, AML, etc.)

• Resolve disputes using arbitration and enforce international judgments

• Operate ethically and legally in multinational environments

Ideal for business managers, legal officers, consultants, and anyone handling international operations or contracts.

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1 — Foundations of International Business Law

• Legal systems: common law vs. civil law

• Sources of international business law: UN, WTO, UNCITRAL, ICC

• Jurisdiction, conflict of laws, forum selection

• Corporate entities, representative offices, joint ventures

• Legal structure of global operations

• Workshop: Analyze legal risk in a sample international venture

Focus: Legal Systems • Jurisdiction • Corporate Structures

Day 2 — Contracts, Compliance & Regulatory Frameworks

• Key clauses in international contracts: force majeure, arbitration, governing law

• Drafting sales, licensing, franchising, distribution, and service contracts

• Global compliance regimes:

  • GDPR (EU data protection)

  • FCPA (anti-corruption)

  • AML (banking and financial regulation)

  • Sanctions and export control (OFAC, EU lists)

• Workshop: Redline an international agency agreement

Focus: Contracts • Compliance • Enforcement

Day 3 — Dispute Resolution & Risk Management

• International arbitration (ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, ICSID)

• Enforcing foreign judgments and arbitral awards

• Mediation vs. litigation: choosing the right mechanism

• Structuring transactions to limit risk: insurance, indemnities, limitation of liability

• Ethics, bribery, IP enforcement, and due diligence

• Workshop: Design a dispute resolution and risk strategy for a case study

Focus: Disputes • Mitigation • Governance

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Interpret legal frameworks impacting international business

• Draft and assess contracts for cross-border enforceability

• Build compliance strategies aligned with global regulatory regimes

• Resolve disputes and manage legal risk using the right mechanisms

• Operate across legal systems with confidence and ethical clarity

Who Should Take This Course?

• In-house counsel and legal teams at global firms

• International sales, procurement, and operations managers

• Compliance officers and contract administrators

• Entrepreneurs and SMEs expanding globally

• Consultants working with multinational clients

• Law students and junior lawyers entering corporate practice

Class Reference: IBL/10
Form Updated on: 06/17/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/17/2025

Program Note

Includes real contract samples, editable risk checklists, dispute resolution flowcharts, and summaries of key global legal instruments (CISG, FCPA, GDPR, WTO TRIPS, etc.).