Mexico City is where I learned that a serious contract has two mother tongues. For more than forty seminars, professionals […]
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In Lisbon, I trained professionals who read contracts in two languages before breakfast — Portuguese on one page, English on
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In Panama, I trained the people who move the world’s cargo — and taught them how much a single word
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Trading is language. For thirty years, I have trained lawyers across more than fifty countries to read contracts the way
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Almost no modern cross-border agreement is signed around one table. The parties are in different cities, different time zones, sometimes
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Most words in a contract describe. One word performs. When a party writes “hereby,” the sentence does not report an
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In cross-border drafting, punctuation is not decoration. It is instruction. A list in a contract tells the reader which activities
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In cross-border contracts, integrity is not a feeling. It is a set of words. When a party signs a document,
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Every contract begins before its first clause. It begins with the names at the top — who the parties are,
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Most contract words are load-bearing. One small adjective carries more weight than almost any of them: material. A breach is
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