Commentary on UCP 600
No. 680

NEW

This book is written by members of the UCP 600 Drafting Group and reflects the Drafting Group's personal views. Each article or sub-article is analyzed under four different topics, and provides valuable insight into the thinking of those who drafted UCP 600. It will be the reference book of choice for students and users of letter of credit rules.

Unpublished Opinions of the ICC Banking Commission, 1995-2004
No. 660

The latest in the celebrated series of ICC Banking Commission Opinions, Unpublished Opinions of the ICC Banking Commission, 1995-2004, is now available to practitioners. It contains more than 120 Opinions never published in book form than before.

Included for the first time, are Opinions relating to the eUCP, the UCP 500's supplement for electronic presentation of documents, and ISBP, a Banking Commission checklist
showing how UCP 500 should be applied in everyday practice. The ISBP, widely praised by practitioners, has been
credited with reducing unacceptably high L/C discrepancy rates.

No practitioner dealing with letters of credit, collections or guarantees can afford to be without it.

2005 Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law & Practice
No. 960

Available each year since 1992, the Annual Surey of
Letter of Credit Law & Practice has consistently proven an indispensable tool for leading letter of credit specialists.

Containing input from top experts around the world, this indispensable reference book contains ALL relevant letter of credit articles, cases and rules for the year 2004.
Handsomely gathered under one hard-bound cover, all the
year's critical LC information contained in the Annual
Survey book is completely indexed of ease of reference.

Leading Court Cases on Letters of Credit
No. 658

More than 15 percent of trade (over $1 trillion a year) is financed using letters of credit.

Now universally used, the UCP, as these ICC rules for letter of credit practice are called, are the most successful private rules for commerce ever developed. But rules require interpretation, and courts worldwide have interpreted how the UCP should be applied in daily practice. Here, in a single volume, the most important court cases interpreting the UCP have been collected, analyzed and explained.

ICC Model Selective Distributorship Contract
No. 657

This new Title in the series of ICC Model contracts, prepared by the ICC Commission on Commercial Law and Practice (CLP), covers agreements which allow the exporter to better control the way his products are marketed by creating a direct link between the exporter and the retailers who sell his products to the end consumer.

Arbitration and Oral Evidence
No. 689

Clarifying the ambiguities surroundingthe oral presentation of evidence

In recent years, international commercial arbitration procedures have made great strides to bring into line different traditions of law and practice. According to some observers, written witness statements, taken in advance, have lessened the chance that surprises will be sprung upon counsel and arbitrators during oral testimony.

But considerable problems remain. The aim of Arbitration and Oral Evidence is to give the reader a thorough picture of the practical issues raised by the oral presentation of evidence and to present a balanced series of solutions to the problems involved.

International Commercial Transactions - Third Edition
No. 691

by Jan Ramberg

This updated third edition of International Commercial Transactions, considered a leading title in its field, contains the 2004 UNIDROIT Principles of international commercial contracts and the 2003 Principles of European Contract Law, the 2003 ICC Force Majeure and Hardship Clause as well as the 2004 ICC Models for commercial agency and distributorship. Also, account has been taken of recent changes in transport law.

The purpose of International Commercial Transactions is to provide first hand and up to date knowledge of the main aspects of international commercial transactions with the 1980 convention on contracts for international sale of goods (CISG) in focus, and to explain the interrelation between such contracts and the ancillary contracts of transport, insurance and financing.

Bank Guarantees in International Trade (third revised edition)
No. 661

This book offers practitioner in international trade law the most complete analysis of banking law in the field. In its wealth of practical detail, it is unlikely to be surpassed.

Corporate Governance Worldwide
No. 654

Major corporate scandals in the early years of the 21st century have placed corporate governance at the front and centre of corporate and government priorities. Today, good corporate governance - the rules and practices that govern the relationship between the managers and shareholders of corporations, as well as stakeholders (employees, pensioners and local communities) - has become a must in the modern business environment.

The publication of Corporate Governance Worldwide provides an update of breaking developments in the field and recommendations for how business should react to new governance requirements generated by governments and the marketplace.

2004 Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law & Practice
No. 957
An indispensable tool for letter of credit specialists

Available each year since 1992, the Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law & Practice has consistently proven an indispensable tool for leading letter of credit specialists. Containing input from top experts around the world, this indispensable reference book contains ALL relevant letter of credit articles, cases and rules for the year 2004.

ICC Model Mergers & Acquisitions Contract 1 - Share Purchase Agreement
No. 656
ICC Commission on Commercial Law & Practice

First in a series of models dealing with the transfer of a company or business

This new model contract is the first in a series of ICC international Merger & Acquisition (M&A) agreements. The notion of M & A agreements, regards, broadly speaking, the transfer of a company or a business and covers a variety of contracts.

This first model is a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) in its simplest form, i.e. the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of one company. It is intended to assist parties and lawyers who are not specialized in M&A contracts to draft a simple contract covering the most common issues involved.

Collected DOCDEX Decisions 1997-2003
No. 665
33 decisions by ICC experts resolving real life disputes about documentary credits.

First introduced in 1997, DOCDEX is a repaid , cost-effective dispute resolution system intended to resolve disputes involving ICC rules on documentary credit (UCP 500). Now, for the first time, all of the DOCDEX decisions taken over a seven-year period have been collected in a single volume.