This highly practical and comprehensive handbook offers focused guidance for practitioners involved in the drafting of service and consultancy agreements for senior employees.One-off agreements are often negotiated for key employees and company directors, sometimes as part of a commercial package, for example on a company acquisition. Not infrequently they give rise to contract-based litigation – the sort of costly litigation that can suddenly erupt following a boardroom crisis.

This accessible reference work is the only book to concentrate exclusively on senior employees and offers up-to-date precedents for consultancies, contracts for services and employee secondments. A free disk of precedents is included and is specifically designed for ease of use with search-and-replace software.

Contents:
1. Service agreements.
2. Basis of contract.
3. Location and deployment.
4. Remuneration and benefits.
5. Holidays, sickness and incapacity.
6. Intellectual property.
7. Fidelity, trade secrets and restrictive covenants.
8. Variation and termination.
9. Company directors.
10. Statutory requirements.
11. Miscellaneous matters.
12. Secondment and consultancy agreements.

Appendix I: precedents
13. Checklist
14. Service agreements for senior manager, managing director, ex-patriate executive, senior employee with residential accommodation
15. Salaried partner
16. Barristers’ senior clerk
17. Head teacher
18. Termination
19. Secrecy
20. Intellectual property
21. Secondment agreements
22. Contracts for the provision of services
23. commercial and semi-retirement consultancies
24. non-executive directors.
25. Appendix II: Optional and boilerplate clauses.
26. Appendix III: Employment Rights Act 1996 Part 1″