Commercial contracts
Drafting, negotiation and review of the agreements a business signs repeatedly — supply, distribution, services, licensing.
01In practice
Most businesses negotiate hard on one large contract a year and sign two hundred small ones without reading them. The two hundred are where the risk accumulates — a limitation clause that does not limit, an indemnity that runs one way, a term that renews automatically.
So the first thing we usually do is not review a contract. It is to look at the ones a client signs repeatedly and fix the template.
02What that means
- Template review
- Your standard forms, read properly once, so the next fifty are safe.
- Negotiated agreements
- Drafted, or negotiated against the other side’s paper.
- Review before signature
- A defined turnaround, with the three things that matter flagged rather than a forty-page memo.
Describe your matter.
A paragraph is enough to tell us whether we are the right firm. If we are not, we will say so and suggest who is.