- Intermediate/Introductory * 3 hours CPD
Joint ventures have always been, and remain, a fundamental building block for business co-operation. They are a vehicle that can take many forms, with a wide range of issues attached to them, which the commercial practitioner needs to keep abreast of. This course aims to equip delegates with a thorough understanding of the areas they need to pay attention to in setting up, operating and dissolving joint ventures:
- Form of business collaboration - partnerships, companies, non-incorporated collaboration arrangements - characteristics of each form
- Formation - legislative oversight, agreement essentials, international influences, merger control and competitive oversight
- Fundamentals of operation
- Break up - "business divorce" - methods of resolution
- Specific issues - intellectual property, taxation, employment and litigation