The Global Contract Playbook: Master Drafting for Cross-Border Success

Format and Duration:

• A series of 10 concise, focused online sessions, featuring real-world case studies and live Q&A discussions.

• Start Date: December 1, 2025

  Live Session Time: Monday and Thursday,

  1. Los Angeles (PT): 12:00 PM

  2. New York (ET): 3:00 PM

  3. London (BST/GMT+1 in summer, GMT in winter): 8:00 PM (summer) / 7:00 PM (winter)

  4. Tbilisi, Georgia (GET): 11:00 PM (summer) / 12:00 AM next day (winter, depending on daylight saving shifts elsewhere)

• Includes downloadable resources, practical templates, and tools to apply your learning immediately.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Goal: Equip lawyers, in-house counsels, and business leaders with practical contract drafting skills that protect their business, accelerate deal closures, and minimize legal costs, especially in cross-border transactions.

Outcome: By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Draft enforceable contracts with international legal validity

• Identify key risks and avoid costly mistakes

• Negotiate stronger terms and close deals faster

• Apply practical templates and strategies for various agreements

  
  

MODULE BREAKDOWN

MODULE 1 — Contract Fundamentals for Global Business

Goal: Understand why good contracts collapse and how to design ones that don’t.

• The hidden architecture of enforceability — how contracts fail across borders.

• Diagnosing operational, jurisdictional, and adversarial failures.

• Clause engineering: turning “material breach” and “net-30” into enforceable triggers.

• Governing-law fallacies — why law ≠ enforcement.

• Redrafting templates into functional legal systems.

Bonus: Contract Integrity Checklist — 20-point enforceability scan used in GBPLO practice.

MODULE 2 — Drafting Enforceable Contracts Across Borders

Goal: Translate doctrine into structure. Draft contracts that survive translation — literal and legal.

• The “Three-Lens Test”: enforcement, speed & integrity, and substantive law lenses.

• Cross-system risk alignment — civil vs. common law doctrines in liability and damages.

• Structuring payment and liability frameworks for multi-currency, multi-forum execution.

• Force majeure & dispute clauses localized for EU, GCC, Asia, and LATAM.

• Dual-layer enforceability: fallback clauses, proportionality language, and remedial safety nets.

MODULE 3 — Contract Types & Strategic Templates

Goal: Master key agreement families and their jurisdictional vulnerabilities.

• NDAs — trade-secret survival tests under different jurisdictions.

• Service Agreements — liability, IP ownership, and scope traps.

• Partnership vs. Joint Venture — choosing the right structure for control and risk.

• Tag-along & Drag-along Clauses — exit design under multiple jurisdictions.

• Vendor & Supplier Contracts — compliance, audit, and indemnity architecture.
  

MODULE 4 — Negotiating & Closing Deals Like a Pro

Goal: Build behavioral and strategic mastery in contract negotiation.

• How top negotiators frame offers, control tempo, and anchor value.

• Behavioral traps — anchoring, status-quo bias, over-justification, silence aversion.

• Leverage frameworks: BATNA design, urgency perception, narrative control, and stakeholder mapping.

• Live negotiation labs — framing price, resisting discount pressure, and closing with authority.

Bonus: Negotiation Cheat Sheet + Live Role-Play Workbook.

MODULE 5 — Compliance, Risk & Dispute Resolution

Goal: Reduce litigation risk and build contracts that protect you before conflict begins.

• Drafting data-protection clauses that meet GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA standards.

• Article 49 fallback & mutual re-negotiation clauses for post-Schrems II legality.

• Dispute-resolution architecture: mediation, arbitration, and escalation ladders.

• How to choose enforcement seats that survive political and public-policy friction.

• Designing ADR clauses aligned with the New York Convention and local procedural laws.

Bonus: Contract Risk Management Playbook™ — dispute-prevention frameworks and drafting formulas.

COURSE FORMAT

• Live Sessions and Pre-recorded modules

• Contract Templates & Playbooks for real-world application

• Case Studies & Negotiation Roleplays

• Q&A and Office Hours for personalized guidance

  
  

WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

• Lawyers & In-House Counsel managing multi-jurisdictional transactions.

• Founders & Operators entering cross-border partnership, SaaS, IP, or service deals.

• Consultants & Legal Designers who want to translate doctrine into business language.

PRICE: USD 250 / GEL 675

After you sign up, allow 24 hours, and you will receive an email with step-by-step instructions. 

About the Course Leader: Gvantsa Baidoshvili

Gvantsa is an IP and fintech lawyer with extensive international experience, specializing in legal compliance for tech, media, and e-commerce businesses. As Managing Partner of GBPLO, she helps entrepreneurs grow by providing tailored legal solutions and connecting them with a global network of legal professionals.

Career Highlights: Spearheaded the creation of Georgia’s first neighboring rights association, establishing operations from scratch and managing representation agreements with 26 foreign CMOs; At GMI, represented Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony ATV, and Warner Music Group in complex copyright and neighboring rights disputes; Led full legal compliance and brand partnerships (including with Disney and Swarovski) for international media, e-commerce, and fintech brands.

Academic: University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law: Dean’s Scholarship, Professional Experience Award, Franklin Pierce Center Scholarship 2024; Berkeley Law: Merit Scholarship 2023; NYU Law School: Dean’s Graduate Award 2023; Michigan Law: Merit Scholarship 2023; Georgetown Law: Merit Scholarship 2023; LMU Loyola Law School: Merit Scholarship 2022; Zviad Kordzadzé Law Firm Scholarship; Estonian Development Cooperation Scholarship; President Scholarship for academic excellence .

Speakership: South Carolina Bitcoin Blockchain Conference; Globalize EU Conference; Aleksanteri Conference; Dagemify Web3 Conference.