Demistifying IT Contracts (A Comprehensive Guide)

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Description
Welcome to "Demystifying IT Contracts: A Comprehensive Guide." This interesting yet immensely useful amalgam of the two authors' extensive professional experience, aggregating to 45 years. Rajan is a highly reputed corporate-commercial lawyer with more than 25 years of professional experience in extensively working on clients' complex professional assignments. These cover a vast range of commercial contracts, including the ever-dynamic and innovative IT contracts involving challenging business situations and transactions, contracts of infrastructure projects, construction and real estate, as well as handling large-scale M&A transactions and advising start-ups in the IT space in their development phase, structuring, and investment transactions. Gaurav's professional career on the business and technical side of the IT industry spans close to two decades. During this period, Gaurav has worked with IT organizations in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions and had the opportunity to witness both successful and unsuccessful IT projects of varied nature. This has enabled Gaurav to understand the significant influences that contracts and agreements, and the legal issues emanating therefrom, have on project outcomes.
We wish to emphasize that this book does not intend to strictly serve as a legal manual. Instead, it is written with the goal of providing a primer of practical guidance on business and legal aspects of IT contracts to industry professionals and managers who have to deal with such contracts in their regular business situations. Indeed, lawyers may also derive benefits from ideas listed in the book. We have provided a combined perspective on IT contracts arising from their own substantial individual experiences in dealing with legal and techno-business aspects of such contracts. Drawing from our firsthand experiences, we have personally observed how contracts and agreements can either contribute to or impede the success of a project. Ineffective contracts can lead to miscommunications, delays, and even project failures.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Technical Contracts
Chapter 2. Essential Elements of a Contract
Chapter 3. Drafting the Contract
Chapter 4. Types of Technical Contracts
Chapter 5. Global Data Privacy Laws
Chapter 6. Contract Risk and Issue Management
Chapter 7. Identifying Contract Risks and Issues
Chapter 8. Best Practices for Managing Contract Risks and Issues
Chapter 9. Leveraging AI in Contracting
Chapter 10. Key Takeaways from the Book
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Author Details
Gaurav Srivastava
Rajan D Gupta