Negotiation, Drafting and Review of Contracts
"The role of the lawyer in commercial arrangements is to understand the business need and manage the legal process in order to capture that need."
At Crawford Solicitors in London, we draft straightforward, practical and commercially focused contracts that will help you complete your deal and achieve your business and financial objectives whilst protecting your essential interests in a cost-effective manner.
Clients rely on us to help them obtain contracts, to protect their interests in contractual relationships and to sort out contract problems. We will sit beside you at the negotiating table or offer advice and support in the background. We will help you obtain full value for your contract so that you actually receive what you are contracted to receive.
We provide specialist advice to a broad spectrum of commercial entities on a wide range of commercial issues including:
- Technology transactions
- Hardware and software procurement
- IT services (e.g. professional services, consultancy services, managed services, projects, software licensing, intellectual property)
- Terms and conditions of business
- General contract documentation
- Licenses
- Turnkey agreements
- Sponsorship agreements
- Franchise agreements
- Distribution agreements
- Contracts for supply of goods or services
- Contractual risk
- Regulatory compliance
- Confidentiality
- Service level agreements
- Contract structuring
- Post-contract management and administration
- Identification of claims and resolving disputes for either a purchaser or a supplier
- Exclusion and limitation of liability
- Consequential loss
- Retention of title — retaining title to goods in the event of non-payment
- Intellectual property rights
- Contract disputes
Minimising costs - Commercial Contracts
The purpose of a contract is to record the terms agreed between parties so that they each may derive a commercial benefit from the same.
Questions it is useful to think about:
•· What are your commercial objectives?
•· How fundamental is the substance of the contract to your business?
•· How much flexibility do you need?
•· If it all goes wrong with the other contracting party, what damage will it do to your business?
•· What problems have you experienced with similar contracts?
"The good lawyer will always understand the commercial needs of both parties and endeavour to capture them as the result will be two parties working together effectively whilst achieving their own individual commercial gains. A harsh one sided contract is ultimately a contract for failure."
Experienced London Commercial Contracts Solicitor
Before founding this law firm, Caroline Crawford spent two years as in-house counsel for an international hotel chain and two years in contract litigation at another law firm. Clients call upon her to produce straightforward, no-nonsense contracts which are easy to understand, unambiguous and do the job for which they are intended.
To arrange a consultation about your contract issue, please call + 44 (0) 808 231 7033 local rate, + 44 (0) 203 318 2801 or contact us online.
