Managing Contract Risks and Disputes
Live instructor-led training courses in the UAE for those who have seen a contract quietly fail but don’t know how to prevent it from happening again. The training courses will be centered on identifying potential risks that might arise and dispute resolution.
Dates
22-23 July
11-12 Aug
21-22 Sep
Duration
2 Days
2 Days
2 Days
Difficulty
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Methodology
Online Live
Online Live
Dates
22-23 July
11-12 Aug
21-22 Sep
Duration
2 Days
2 Days
2 Days
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$870
Learn contract risk and dispute management in the UAE, covering risk allocation, claims, liquidated damages, and dispute resolution.
Overview
This training course gives you practical tools for recognizing and managing risks during each phase of the contract life cycle, including: contract risk management; relevant risk provisions; supplier performance management; changes to the contract; claims and disputes; financial issues, and the closure of the contract. In the training programme we will use practical examples, case studies, discussions and scenarios related to contracts to help you manage contract risks effectively.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand principles of contract management.
- Risk identification and assessment related to cost, time, quality, and performance.
- Development of risk mitigation strategies for contracts.
- Understanding of risk allocation and management in various types of contracts.
- Identification of key contractual provisions that address risk.
- Utilization of bonds, guarantees, warranties, and other provisions in contracts.
- Management of supplier/contractor performance.
- Contract variation and change order management.
- Comprehension of contractor claims.
- Effective ways to prevent and settle disputes arising from contracts.
- Liquidated damages and contract remedies.
- Termination of contract management.
Course Outline
- Principles of effective contract management
- Importance of contract management
- Causes and consequences of contract failure
- Analysis of contract requirements
- Specifications and scope of work
- Key stakeholders in contract management
- Identifying contractual risks
- Risks affecting time, cost, and quality
- Risk assessment and prioritization
- Risk response strategies
- Contract types and risk allocation
- Important contractual risk clauses
- Bonds and guarantees
- FIDIC, NEC, and other standard contract models
- Establishing effective supplier relationships
- Supplier performance management
- Contractor warranties
- Monitoring service performance
- Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Managing contractor default
- Performance monitoring tools
- Managing contract variations
- Change orders
- Causes of contract changes
- Cost and price analysis
- Economic price adjustments
- Price transparency
- Cost breakdowns
- Managing the financial impact of variations
- Negotiating improved value for money
- Understanding contractual claims
- Causes of contract disputes
- Claims preparation and management
- Liquidated damages
- Preventing contractual disputes
- Dispute resolution mechanisms
- Managing contractor and supplier disagreements
- Contract termination
- Defects and warranties
- Retention sums
- Final payments
- Contract closeout
- Handover procedures
- Lessons learned and continuous improvement
Education Consultant
Farhan Ahmed
Mr. Farhan Ahmed is a certified education consultant with 5+ years of experience, fully authorized to guide you through all course details and ensure you gain maximum value from your participation. He has supported hundreds of learners in selecting the right certifications and advancing their professional goals. His guidance is practical, personalized, and focused on helping you make informed decisions with confidence.
Course Highlights
Course Name | Duration | Level | Core Focus |
Managing Contract Risks and Disputes | 2 Days | Intermediate | Risk allocation, claims, disputes, liquidated damages |
Ideal Participants | Prerequisites | Delivery Format | Key Learning Areas |
Contract, procurement, and project professionals | Basic contract or procurement knowledge helpful | Online / Classroom (UAE) | Risk clauses, FIDIC and NEC models, claims, dispute resolution |
What You Practice | Where This Applies | Typical Roles | Regional Relevance |
Reading risk clauses, preparing claims, applying liquidated damages | Construction, infrastructure, and government contracts in the UAE | Contract Manager, Project Manager, Claims Consultant | Directly relevant to FIDIC and NEC based UAE construction contracts |
Why This Matters Right Now in the UAE
Failure of large construction projects within Downtown Dubai and Abu Dhabi does not come from a single event. Failure occurs when a risk factor buried in an obscure clause becomes apparent, usually as a delay claim or as a contractual issue regarding who should bear which responsibility. FIDIC and NEC contracts are widely used for UAE construction projects, and in each case there is a clear distribution of risk factors that people do not really understand.
What MontRoyal Elevate Does Differently
This course doesn’t stop at defining liquidated damages. You work through a real claim scenario, figure out what triggered it, and practice the kind of response that actually prevents it from escalating into a dispute. Case studies draw on construction and infrastructure contracts running under FIDIC and NEC frameworks in the UAE, so the risk clauses you study are ones you’ll genuinely encounter, not abstract examples from somewhere else. Sessions run live online, so professionals across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and the other emirates can join without pulling away from active project work.
Training Methodology
The course runs over 2 days through live instructor led online sessions, built around practical exercises, case studies, and group discussion using real contract scenarios.
You’ll need:
- Laptop or desktop computer
- Stable internet connection
- Basic understanding of contract or procurement management
- General computer skills
By the end, you’re not just aware of where risk hides in a contract, you know how to price it, clause it, and respond to it before it becomes a dispute.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find quick answers to the most common questions about the courses and exams.
These risks relate to cost, time, quality and performance. In addition, it covers how various types of contracts such as FIDIC and NEC split this risk. This is very important as participants will be taught how to identify where this risk lies through contract analysis.
The primary beneficiaries from this course will be contract managers and project managers who work with construction and infrastructure contracts. There are certain patterns of dispute within these industries which would make this course useful for claims consultants and commercial personnel managing variation orders.
This course provides many contract examples and case studies where participants prepare claims and utilize liquidated damages provisions rather than merely talking about them.
Experience is useful in the process of learning. However, you do not need to be experienced in working with FIDIC and NEC as the course will explain how risk allocation occurs within these standard contract models from the beginning.
The course focuses extensively on identification and quantification of risk during the initial stage of contract formation and management. Disputes rarely arise as a result of claims – it is the failure to price risk at this stage that leads to a dispute.