Online Events & Webinars

BCMPA/Keystone Law Webinar

Thursday 2nd May 11.30-12.30pm

The BCMPA are pleased to announce a jointly sponsored webinar with Lucy Pringle of Keystone Law. The webinar will be delivered by Lucy Pringle, a Commercial partner at Keystone Law. Lucy specialises in helping businesses in the chemicals and manufacturing industry with their contracts, including contract manufacturing agreements.

The purpose of the webinar is to look at the legal process when negotiating contracts with customers and is relevant to co manufacturers and packers in the process industries.

This is a FREE roundtable event with a 30-40 min presentation by Lucy, followed by an opportunity to ask questions and for peer-to-peer learning. Numbers will be limited to 15 delegates to facilitate interaction.

Please register your interest by clicking this link. 

Areas that will be covered:

• Key provisions in contract manufacturing agreements
• Ensure your customer delivers what you need in order to do your job
• Conversion efficiencies and loss tolerance for customer-supplied materials
• Intellectual property considerations – who should own improvements?
• Warranties: best industry practice vs compliance with spec vs guaranteed outcome vs experimental services
• Releases of liability and pushing responsibility onto the customer
• Effectively limiting and excluding liability – latest legal position
• Interplay between liability clauses and insurance
• How rising insolvency levels and a change in the law affects your contracting position
• Where do things go wrong in reality – contractual process and scoping

Please register your interest by clicking this link.