Ensuring you have the right contracts in place is the essential first step to safeguarding your business

An exciting step for businesses is reaching new customers with innovative products and services. But without the right contracts and application of commercial contract law, it’s hard to take the offering very far at all. Getting this part right helps to safeguard and unlock the revenue in your business by underpinning the commercial relationships you need to succeed.

Sometimes companies borrow someone else’s contract or find one online. But a generic contract doesn’t necessarily match what you do and can get the underlying technical knowledge wrong. A company as unique as yours deserves the right contract, tailored where needed to apply to what you do. A solid contract guards your intellectual property in your code and in your data, ensures regulatory compliance, and makes sure you’re not pushed into accepting terms which might be damaging to your business.

Now is a good time to seek advice on a commercial contract, especially if you are dealing with:

• Software licensing
• Consultancy contracts
• Distribution agreements and VAR
• Trading terms and conditions
• Sale or purchase of services/goods
• Difficult supplier relationships
• The sale or purchase of a business
• Franchising a business
• Joint venture agreements

Specialist advice

At Berwins, our experienced commercial contract solicitors can help you with drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.

Through our outsourced, in-house style service and our wealth of experience in the law and tech industry, we can help you with:

• Negotiating and drafting terms
• Understanding and accepting contract risks
• Reviewing a pre-drafted contract
• Amending a contract and adding terms
• Termination of a contract
• Gap Analysis of standard terms against supplier terms