Commercial contracts
Agreements drafted around how your business actually trades.
How we can help
- Supply, distribution, agency and service agreements
- Reviewing contracts presented to you before you sign them
- Limitation and exclusion of liability clauses that will survive challenge
- Payment terms, termination rights and dispute resolution provisions
- Confidentiality and intellectual property provisions
- Explaining in plain terms what you are actually agreeing to
What happens next
- Send us the draft, or tell us what the arrangement needs to achieve.
- We review or draft, and flag the terms that carry real commercial risk.
- We explain what changed and support you through the negotiation.
Fees for this work
Fixed fee for standard agreements, quoted before we start. Negotiated contracts are charged hourly with an estimate.
Common questions
The other side sent their standard contract. Do we have to accept it?
No, and standard terms are usually more negotiable than they appear. The clauses worth pushing on are typically liability, termination and payment — not the ones people instinctively focus on.
Can we limit our liability?
To a degree. Limitation and exclusion clauses are subject to statutory reasonableness tests, and certain liabilities cannot be excluded at all. A clause that fails the test gives you nothing, so wording it properly matters.
What is the most commonly missed clause?
Termination. Businesses spend the negotiation on price and almost none on how to get out, then find themselves locked into an arrangement that has stopped working with no clean exit.
Do we need a written contract for everything?
Not legally, but the cost of writing one is trivial against the cost of arguing about what was agreed. For anything of value or duration, write it down.
Tell us what's happened
Confidential, reviewed by a solicitor, answered within one working day.