Commercial Contract Lawyers
The contracts that your organisation enters into are key to your business. They define the nature and scope of the obligations that you have to your customers, suppliers, partners and stakeholders, and help to underpin and grow your business' revenue, outputs and reputation. And they provide important reassurance for you as to the obligations owed to your business.
Whether you are entering into a strategically important long term relationship, or looking to put in place new standard terms for your business, you will need to make sure that you understand the risks and obligations which are provided for in those documents.
Making sure that your contracts are clear and carefully thought-through helps to reduce the risk of costly and time-consuming disputes in the future. And by ensuring that you understand the effect of the contracts that you are entering into, you are able to take steps - in the operation of the contract - to manage any risks which you have agreed to take on.
Whatever your sector, our team of contract lawyers are experienced in providing pragmatic, actionable advice on the terms of the contracts which you are entering into, as well as on the operation and management of those contracts once they are in place.
Our expertise
Our contracts lawyers advise on the full range of contracts that your organisation is likely to enter into. Whether you're outsourcing services, entering into a franchising arrangement, or contracting for a complex IT solution, you will be in a stronger position where you have the benefit of clear, pragmatic legal advice.
Our team of contract lawyers have the experience to provide that support. Examples of the areas on which we support our clients include advising on the drafting and negotiation, and the in-life operation, of contracts dealing with:
- Service outsourcing and supply - including facilities management and IT services.
- Manufacturing and supply.
- Franchising and IP licensing.
- Heads of terms and memoranda of understanding.
- Non-disclosure and confidentiality arrangements.
- Distribution and commercial agency.
- Collaboration, strategic partnerships and contractual joint ventures.
- Research and grant funding.
- Software development and licensing, and 'Software as a Service' arrangements.
- Standard terms of business - both B2B and B2C.
When working on these arrangements, we know how important it is to make sure that we take the time to understand your requirements. Our advice will always be focused on, and proportionate to, those requirements - whether you require a detailed analysis of risks, or a much more light-tough approach focused on areas that are particularly important to you.
We also know that sometimes it's not appropriate or proportionate for you to engage external legal advice. As well as advising on specific contracts, our contract lawyers regularly help to train our clients' contract managers and 'non-legal' teams, to help them to deal more effectively with those agreements.
The team are accessible and very easy to work with. They share thoughts and opinions from the legal perspective that support the business process and enable an effective contracting process with our clients to take place.
Our work highlights
Advising an education charity on the terms on which it contracts with central government for the delivery of education services. Our role included advising on the negotiation of contract terms for this critical contract for our client, and subsequently supporting on the management and operation of that contract.
Advising a marketing and communications agency on their contract to develop creative material for a pharmaceuticals company. We were asked to focus on the risk allocation arising out of the use of generative AI in the images and text used in that creative material.
Advising an international airline on its contracts for the outsourcing of its business critical passenger services systems (including reservation, inventory, departure control and revenue management solutions). With a long standing relationship, we provide wide ranging legal support in relation to these solutions, from the initial procurement to the subsequent ongoing contract management.
