Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering by Duc V Trang | 2019*

Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering by Duc V Trang | 2019*

Author	Duc V Trang
Publication Date	2019
ISBN	9789811197598
Format	Softcover
Publisher	Singapore Academy of Law

 

Transactional lawyers can apply the framework’s mental models and strategies to take a more proactive role in structuring deals, evolving from legal specialists into trusted strategic advisers. The framework also provides educators and training professionals with an innovative interdisciplinary perspective for reshaping legal education and professional development.

Amid the legal industry's strong emphasis on technological advancement, Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering offers a pioneering approach to developing legal talent, recognising that law remains fundamentally a people-driven profession.

Table of Contents of Architecture of Deals: Strategies for Transactional Lawyering by Duc V Trang

Chapter 1 Introduction

 

Part I Transactional Lawyering And Value

Chapter 2 What does a Lawyer “Do”?

Chapter 3 Modelling Value

Chapter 4 Defining Value: Academia and the Practising Profession

Chapter 5 Value in Transactional Lawyering

Chapter 6 Expertise Creation

Chapter 7 The Education and Training of Law Students and Lawyers

Chapter 8 The Missing Theory: Framework of Private Orderings

 

Part II Framework Of Private Orderings

Chapter 9 Structure

Chapter 10 Adverse Selection

Chapter 11 Moral Hazard

Chapter 12 Asset Specificity

Chapter 13 Incomplete Contracts

Chapter 14 Control, Standards and Rules

Chapter 15 Contracting Around Rules: Enterprise, Regulatory and Tax

Chapter 16 Money

Chapter 17 Exogenous Risks

Chapter 18 Exit Strategies

Chapter 19 Dispute Resolution

Chapter 20 Framework of Private Orderings: Lessons for the Deal Architect

 

Part III Design-Based Pedagogy And The Future Of Legal Education And Training

Chapter 21 Law Schools and Legal Education

Chapter 22 Law Firms

Chapter 23 What Do Lawyers “Do”?

 

Part IV Appendices: Case Studies

Appendix 1 Vintage Car

Appendix 2 Genre Productions – Pre-Arranged

Distribution Agreement

Appendix 3 Professional Legal Services

Appendix 4 Kallang Building

Appendix 5 Sonoran-PerkinElmer Earn-out

Appendix 6 Distribution Arrangement

Appendix 7 Facility Agreement

Appendix 8 Non-Disclosure Agreement

Appendix 9 Pay or Play

Appendix 10 Communication Authority of Roarkadia: Radio Communication Network Project

Appendix 11 Celebrity Endorsement Arrangement

Appendix 12 South African Grand Prix

Appendix 13 Bridge Financing for Start-up Company

Appendix 14 Founder Equity

Appendix 15 Founder Advisor Standard Template

 

About The Author:

Duc Trang is Managing Director of Landon Advisory Services with over 25 years of legal industry experience. He has served as a general counsel, international law firm attorney, business executive, educator, executive coach, and consultant, and is a recognised trainer in transactional lawyering.

Formerly a senior executive at Motorola Solutions, he held leadership roles in both the legal department and business operations. He also practised with leading global law firms and worked on legal reform initiatives in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Duc holds a law degree from Columbia Law School and a BA from University of California, Berkeley, and has taught law at universities in Singapore and Europe.