EMEA Dbriefs Legal - Contracts

14 Jan 25 |  Supply chains represent a key area of risk for many businesses and are also an area receiving increased legislative scrutiny, particularly in the context of environmental, social, and governance issues. The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is the latest legal development, mandating in-scope companies to address specific adverse human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and supply chains. What does this mean for your organisation and what can you do to prepare?

20 Feb 25 | For most service recipients, business process outsourcing (BPO) negotiation and contracting is a need which arises every few years, it is not business-as-usual. Service recipients are often faced with high value and complex agreements which need to be negotiated, and even with best-in-class external support, this can be challenging for busy internal teams. Our clients increasingly want combined specialist commercial, operational and legal support, because each of these elements are intertwined and all form part of the same negotiations and trade-offs. 

Aired 7 Nov 24 | Change events, such as re-structures, acquisitions, separations and integrations, create opportunities to review, renegotiate, remediate and improve contracting processes and supply arrangements, including IT services contracts and other commercial agreements. Deloitte Contracts focusses on seamless integration of legal advisory, technology, and scalable delivery to provide speed, clarity, and compliance at appropriate milestones. What could your organisation be thinking about now?

Aired 5 Sept 24 |  Contracts are touched by everyone and owned by no-one in an organisation. Legal, Procurement, Sales, Risk, Operations, Finance and individual business units all have some stake in either the creation, management or ultimate outcome of contracts, or the processes related to contracting – but no one person or team overlooks the entire lifecycle. This leads to inefficiencies, value loss, and suboptimal value optimisation affecting multiple stakeholders, and a lack of clear focus from the organisation overall. Is your organisation managing contractual business relationships through ‘Contracting Excellence’ to unlock contractual value, or are you seeing continuous value erosion?