Commercial Contracts
Delivering easy-to-understand contracts that protect your interests, identify scope and define obligations to provide certainty and minimise risk
With extensive experience across almost all industry sectors, we provide expert advice on all aspects of commercial and procurement contracting. From drafting to negotiation and administration, our commercial team advises leading corporate clients including banks, airlines and logistics companies, telecommunications providers, global technology suppliers, retailers, universities, and government entities.
We’ll also make sure you are aware of relevant regulatory obligations, like the Unfair Contract Terms protections for small businesses.
Practical contract management and administration support for effective commercial execution
Contracts must be understood by the people who administer them. To ensure your contracts are implemented in a way that brings the benefits they were intended to, we can prepare easy to use contract administration manuals detailing how the contract operates, relevant time limits, and sample pro forma notices, as well as provide training to help you operationalise the arrangements.
Delivering robust commercial agreements that protect your interests and align your business objectives
We guide our clients through each step of their commercial transactions, ensuring every agreement is strategically aligned, legally sound, and built to manage complex relationships and risks. Our expertise includes structuring, negotiating, and establishing joint ventures and infrastructure sharing arrangements across a range of industries including resources and renewables, technology, real estate, and food and agribusiness. Whether you are establishing a new partnership or refining an existing agreement, we provide comprehensive support at every stage. From consultancy and funding to procurement and manufacturing, our comprehensive services include:
- standard form contracts;
- consultancy agreements;
- procurement and supply agreements;
- funding agreements;
- research and development, and commercialisation agreements;
- manufacturing, transport, logistics, and warehousing agreements;
- agency, reseller, and distribution agreements;
- tender processes and terms, procurement practices, and contract management; and
- terminations, transfers, and variations.
Balancing legal strength with commercial reality
Our commercial contracts aren’t solely prepared to provide the strongest legal position (unless that’s what our client wants). Our team recognises that contracts are a means to a greater commercial end, and therefore applies a practical and pragmatic approach advising which risks are likely to be acceptable in the commercial context of a deal, to help foster workable commercial arrangements.
For genuine experts who always deliver trusted commercial advice backed by experience, contact Alex Hutchens.
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