A unique work of compilation, analysis and assessment of the current state of Chinese business law with tables and illustrations to clarify complex organizations and processes; now available as an eBook. (read more)

This guide to best practices for managers gives you an update of developments in corporate governance plus recommendations for how you and your business should react to new requirements.

Covering a wide range of issues and featuring relevant case studies, this guide is indispensable for everyone concerned by good governance in business.

In his new book, Drafting and Negotiating International Commercial Contracts, Professor Fabio Bortolotti, a world-renowned expert on contract law, clarifies the issues surrounding these contracts and provides solutions to the thorny problems they raise. (read more)

Including subjects as diverse as money laundering, the role of agents, extortion, accounting and whistleblowing, this invaluable book will be the tool of reference for managers, compliance officers, lawyers and anyone concerned with stamping out corruption. (read more)

In the ICC Force Majeure Clause 2003 and in the ICC Hardship Clause 2003, the ICC seeks to provide international traders with ready-made model clauses which parties to international contracts may incorporate into their contracts. (read more)

ICC Guide to Incoterms 2000 explains how Incoterms 2000 can work for you in daily practice. It provides answers to important and recurring questions concerning the 13 trade terms. (read more)

Nearly every company is involved at some stage in sourcing a vital business function or service to an outside service provider. The ICC Legal Handbook on Global Sourcing Contracts responds to the needs of the business community for information in this area, providing an introduction to business — especially small- and medium-sized enterprises — to some key issues that may arise in these sourcing transactions, with a focus on international transactions. (read more)

Using uniform contractual rules, and not based on any specific national law, the model incorporates prevailing practice in international trade as well as the principles generally recognized by the domestic laws on agency. (read more)

The model confidentiality agreement and stand-alone model confidentiality clause are designed to assist business people and lawyers by providing balanced, reliable models that can be used in transactions across sectors and borders. (read more)

Turnkey contracts take a range of forms and at present no single model contract covers them all. The Model Contract for the Turnkey Supply of an Industrial Plant has special characteristics: 1. The supplier's main obligation is to supply the equipment and assist the purchaser during erection and startup. 2. The supplier performs its obligations within facilities that are under the purchaser control. (read more)

The ICC Model Distributorship Contract provides a uniform contractual framework that incorporates the prevailing practice of international trade. It specifically applies to agreements under which the distributors act either as buyers and resellers, or as importers who organize distribution in the country in which they operate. This revised second edition takes into account important changes since the publication of the first model, particularly concerning the EC antitrust rules on vertical restraints, and the need to harmonize with the ICC Short Form Model Contracts, (ICC No. 634). (read more)

The ICC Model International Franchising Contract, overcomes the difficulties caused by a lack of uniform international rules on this important subject. This contract contains commentary and explanation and brings harmony to a field of growing commercial importance. (read more)

The ICC Model International Sale Contract is a time-saving guide for traders, importers, lawyers and all parties involved in these important international transactions. Providing clear directions to sellers and buyers of manufactured goods, the contract is divided into two parts - Specific Conditions and General Conditions. The form's introduction takes the parties step-by-step through the process - from the general characteristics of the contract through its scope of application to its termination and resolution of disputes. (read more)

ICC Model International Trademark Licence addresses the situation where the owner of a wellknown trademark licences the trademark to a company which will use it with respect to products other than those manufactured or sold by the licensor. (read more)

Model International Transfer of Technology Contract is designed for use by non-specialists in the area who are seeking reliable guidance and an adaptable, balanced contractual framework. (read more)

The notion of M & A agreements, regards, broadly speaking, the transfer of a company or a business and covers a variety of contracts. This model contract is the first is the first in a series of ICC international Merger & Acquisition (M&A) agreements. (read more)

ICC Model Occasional Intermediary Contract is a thoroughly researched Model Contract designed for intermediary transactions. It is another Model in a series of ICC Model Contracts concerned with commercial distribution, and provides a unique and balanced legal platform that takes into account the interests of all parties involved in a non-circumvention and non-disclosure agreement. (read more)

This new title in the series of ICC model contracts covers agreements which allow the exporter to better control the way his products are marketed by creating a direct link between the exporter and the retailers who sell his products to the end consumer. (read more)

ICC has prepared ICC Model Turnkey Contract for Major Projects for use in major projects in order to provide contractors and employers with a unique, balanced platform that is fair to all parties. (read more)

The Short Forms provide the perfect working tool for those parties who are making relatively straightforward transactions, and who have no need for detailed provisions. (read more)

The 13 Incoterms at a glance. (read more)

Incoterms 2000: A Forum of Experts provides the full transcript of an ICC conference in Paris which launched the millennium revision of Incoterms. (read more)

Incoterms® 2010 takes into account the latest developments in commercial practice. In addition to the 11 Incoterms® rules this publication contains graphics and extensive guidance notes to facilitate their use. (read more)

The first international procedures and guidelines manual for chambers in the issuance of non-preferential certificates of origin by ICC's World Chambers Federation. (read more)

Now universally used, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credit (UCP) are the most successful private rules for commerce ever developed. Here, in a single volume, the most important court cases interpreting the UCP have been collected, analyzed and explained. (read more)

Reflections on their Use in International Arbitration
2002 Special Supplement to the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin

A body of rules intended for worldwide use, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts have a particular appeal in international arbitration. They are increasingly applied to supplement or interpret national laws, give international endorsement to solutions based on domestic laws, or as the governing law of the contract. (read more)

2005 Special Supplement to the ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin

UNIDROIT Principles: New Developments and Applications contains articles by international contract specialists analysing and assessing several of new topics: authority of agents, set-off, assignment, limitation periods. The changes made to the Principles to adapt them to the increasing importance of electronic contracting are also examined. (read more)