Month: August 2010

On Typos in Contract Drafting

The ever-vigilant Steven Sholk told me about this post on Footnoted. It describes how in an exhibit to an employment agreement filed on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR system, the company undertook that in addition to paying the executive’s moving expenses, “in consideration of other relocation expenses that Executive and his family will incur, $87,500,000 will be paid … Read More

What’s Your Experience with “Most Favored Nation” Provisions?

Some months ago a reader asked the following: At some point down the road, can you do a blog posting on Most Favored Nation clauses?  My feeling is that within the last 2-3 decades, some professor in some business school somewhere wrote an article on how important these clauses are. Current CEOs, CFOs, and procurement leaders must have read that article, … Read More