Practice → Commercial contracts
Commercial contracts
Drafting, negotiation and review of the agreements a business signs repeatedly — supply, distribution, services, licensing.
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.
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.