Contracts: A Transactional Approach

by David Zarfes, Michael Bloom

This concise paperback, which will be a valuable supplementary text to any traditional contracts casebook, combines cases and actual contracts to bring a real-world practical perspective to the first-year contracts classroom. A Transactional Approach fills the long-felt need by professors, students, and practitioners for a teaching approach to contracts that focuses on practical and transactional skills.
A Transactional Approach introduces business contracts and transactions to the first-year contracts class in a unique

257 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

About the author

David Zarfes was for many years executive vice president and general counsel of Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGE&Y) and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He was responsible for the management and supervision of the CGE&Y legal departments in North, Central, and South America and, among other things, for overseeing (i) complex information technology transactions, (ii) joint venture and alliance agreements, (iii) new ventures and venture capital transactions, (iv) national and international outsourcing agreements, (v) major litigation matters, and (vi) corporate governance and general business matters. Prior to moving to Chicago in 2007, he practiced law with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he specialized in corporate, information technology, and cross-border transactions. He has an extensive background in acquisitions and joint ventures, corporate governance, significant corporate and IT transactions, including in the area of IT consulting services, systems integration, technology development and design, and global outsourcing transactions, and he has taught classes in these areas at Columbia University Law School.

He has published two books on contracts, Contracts: A Transactional Approach and Contracts and Commercial Transactions, Aspen Publishers 2010 and 2011 (each with Prof. Michael Bloom).