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English translation: mark-up (UK) / markup (US)

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French term or phrase:mark up
English translation:mark-up (UK) / markup (US)
Entered by: Conor McAuley

17:29 Feb 5, 2021
French to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)
French term or phrase: mark up
Court case. One company is complaining about how much work it had to do for an operation which never happened.

The final excerpt here suggests that it was originally written in English (if so the original is not in my document). Chances are that "mark up" was used in the original therefore. I did a bit of searching on this, hoping to find something commonly used in English business. No joy.

It is clearly contrasted somewhat with "drafts", and yet I have difficulty believing it means mark-up in the sense of HTML. Could it mean "document with certain fields waiting to be filled in"? Maybe there's a recognised term for this in English?

NB AAA is a French company although it appears to relate to another company registered in a Central European country.

"Ce travail consista tout en même temps à (i) alimenter, au fur et à mesure des questions d'AAA, une data room très détaillée, (ii) rédiger plusieurs projets et mark up relatifs à l'ensemble de la documentation juridique liée à l'opération complexe envisagée et (iii) tenir toutes réunions utiles au projet de cession envisagée.

Les mark up échangés ne concernaient pas de simples « avant contrat » mais bien les actes définitifs devant être signés, et se rapportaient à des actes complexes dotés de nombreuses annexes à l'élaboration très chronophages tels que :"

"les déclarations et garanties réclamées par AAA dans le cadre d'une convention de garantie complexe elle-même très discutée et âprement négociée à travers plusieurs échanges de projets / mark up. - Pièce n°20 : Echanges de mark up sur les « Reps & Warranties »"

"Pièce n°20 : Echanges de mark up relatifs au pacte d'actionnaires"

"S'agissant du rapport d'audit financier, nous attendons encore les dernières réconciliations entre le chiffres du Cabinet BBB et ceux du management. (...) Cela signifie que nous devrions être à même de vous soumettre un nouveau mark up de SPA (acte de cession d'actions) d'ici approximativement 2 jours ouvrables suivant la réception des audits financiers.
[traduction libre]"
Mpoma
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:44
mark-up
Explanation:

"when negotiating the terms of an agreement, a version of the draft agreement produced by the lawyers acting for one of the parties showing changes (usually blacklined) to an earlier version produced by the other side"

https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/mark-up/noun/ (CLICK ON THE ARROW THING ON THE RIGHT TO REVEAL THE DEFINITION)

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Note added at 38 mins (2021-02-05 18:08:25 GMT)
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Verb
https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/mark-up/phrasal-ver...

Also used in relation to legislation in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_(legislation)

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-02-05 18:36:47 GMT)
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Perhaps the term is more common in the US?

"How to help your assistant do a first-draft markup of the other side’s contract form"
https://www.oncontracts.com/how-to-have-your-assistant-do-th...
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Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 15:44
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5mark-up
Conor McAuley
3 +1colour-highlighted draft-changes marked up
Adrian MM.


Discussion entries: 2





  

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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
mark-up
mark-up


Explanation:

"when negotiating the terms of an agreement, a version of the draft agreement produced by the lawyers acting for one of the parties showing changes (usually blacklined) to an earlier version produced by the other side"

https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/mark-up/noun/ (CLICK ON THE ARROW THING ON THE RIGHT TO REVEAL THE DEFINITION)

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Note added at 38 mins (2021-02-05 18:08:25 GMT)
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Verb
https://www.translegal.com/dictionary/en/mark-up/phrasal-ver...

Also used in relation to legislation in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_(legislation)

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Note added at 1 hr (2021-02-05 18:36:47 GMT)
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Perhaps the term is more common in the US?

"How to help your assistant do a first-draft markup of the other side’s contract form"
https://www.oncontracts.com/how-to-have-your-assistant-do-th...

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 15:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 210
Grading comment
Selected automatically based on peer agreement.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Great stuff, thanks.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
5 mins
  -> Thanks Phil!
agree  Katarina Peters: markup
15 mins
  -> Thanks Katarina!
agree  EirTranslations
14 hrs
  -> Thanks Eir!
agree  AllegroTrans
17 hrs
  -> Thanks Chris!
agree  Eliza Hall
1 day 1 hr
  -> Thanks Eliza!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
colour-highlighted draft-changes marked up


Explanation:
If the legal documentation contains court pleadings or 'Statements of Case', any changes will routinely follow a strict BrE colour AmE color scheme: red, green, violet + yellow. Even if referring to contract drafts, UK law firms and Barristers' Chambers > Scots: Library Stables will still use this code colouring,

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Note added at 17 heures (2021-02-06 10:57:10 GMT)
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To the asker's discussion query: http://relativity.com/relativity/Portals/0/Documents/8.0 Doc...

Example sentence(s):
  • Now that all pleadings are filed electronically, it is important that exhibits be marked in a manner which follows local rules and is easy to read once the exhibit is filed. Tools once used to mark exhibits by hand can be duplicated electronically.
  • E+W: SC Practice Direction 172.4 The order of colours to be used for successive amendments is: (1) red (2) green, (3) violet and (4) yellow.

    Reference: http://www.nmd.uscourts.gov/sites/nmd/files/PDFMarkupToolsQu...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 359

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans: Yes, well explained, but "mark up" would be an adequate "translation" of "mark up" methinks
15 hrs
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