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Red Flags in Government Contracts, and Drafting the Green Flags

A single clause can surrender a generation of fiscal sovereignty, and it is usually one nobody read closely. We teach officials to find the red flags in a live contract and to draft the green flags that protect the right to tax and to regulate.

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Programme overview

A single clause can surrender a generation of fiscal sovereignty, and it is usually one nobody read closely. We teach officials to find the red flags in a live contract and to draft the green flags that protect the right to tax and to regulate.

This specialised subject can be taken as a one-day working lab, three-day workshop, two-week specialised training, or curated institutional programme within published open windows.

Who should attend

Negotiating teams, attorney general and legal units, procurement and public private partnership units, boards of state corporations, oversight committees.

Programme modules

Module spine

  1. 01

    Pricing the fiscal exposure in a concession before it is signed

  2. 02

    Stabilisation clauses and the true cost of freezing a tax and regulatory regime

  3. 03

    When a fiscal measure becomes an expropriation claim: arbitration exposure and the defences available

  4. 04

    Guarantees, indemnities and the management of the contingent liability portfolio across government

  5. 05

    Renegotiation and dispute avoidance in a contract already in force

  6. 06

    Capstone: a model contract and a negotiation playbook for a sector, defended against a counterparty team

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