Commercial Contracts

Partnering with you to get the most from your commercial relationships.

We advise large and small companies on all types of business-critical, national, and international commercial transactions. When it comes to multijurisdictional deals, our worldwide presence and experience advising on cross-border commercial agreements set us apart.

Every day, companies deal with relationships and contracts that bind them to their suppliers, customers, licensors, distributors, and other strategic partners. Our commercial contracts team gives you practical, risk management-based solutions to structure these relationships. We'll guide you through the complexities and ensure your commercial contracts have a framework for success.

To stay competitive, you need a business model that's sustainable and able to accommodate market, legal and regulatory changes. With our strategic advice, you can develop and execute on your business model.

You may be shifting to a goods-as-a-service model, supporting sustainability initiatives, addressing global supply chain challenges, or digitizing your business. Whatever your goal, we can help you achieve it.

“Exceptionally knowledgeable, technically strong, whilst also being pragmatic.”

Client, Legal 500 2022

The global market has become increasingly open, but local laws and business and cultural practices mean it can be a challenge to create, distribute and sell goods and services in some markets. A shift towards increasingly complex consumer protection laws is affecting B2C and B2B businesses.

With commercial experience across multiple markets, we simplify and solve the issues, letting you focus on growing your business.

Given the complexity of global business, particularly given the context of international expansion, our commercial contracts team works closely with our global tax, international trade, employment, regulatory, competition and data privacy practices. This means you get holistic advice wherever you do business.

Our Better Contracts podcast is a great way to hear about key market issues. And our comparative guide of global contract laws provides summary answers on everyday commercial contract law questions in over 45 countries.

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Experience

  • Advising a global Industrials group on a highly innovative and game-changing project regarding a new way of providing low emission mobility services in the B2B field. We advised on the legal engineering, structuring and preparation of legal documentation for all elements required in order to design the service offering, including from a commercial and digital contracts perspective. We advised on the procurement of key elements of the services, including assets, digital and other services and on the sale of the services. We are advising in the context of the roll-out, development and expansion of the services. Client has been relying on our extensive knowledge of the commercial and digital contracts aspects of complex business transformation and innovative projects, applied to the mobility sector.
  • Advising various automotive OEMs comprehensively on legal aspects in connection with their market entry in Europe, including customer facing contractual terms and order process (B2B as well as B2C), supply chain, sale and lease back, leasing and fleet management cooperation, charging services as well as related regulatory questions, all across many jurisdictions.
  • Advising one of the largest garment manufacturers in Asia and its affiliates with respect to a joint development agreement and a manufacturing and supply agreement with one of the largest personal care products companies in the United States.
  • Advising the one of the world’s leading children’s toy manufacturers in connection with revamping its global supply agreement templates whereby the company purchases services and goods on a global basis, including materials and goods used in toys and capital equipment used in the manufacture of toys.
  • Representing digital printing service company in its manufacturing and supply agreements, large enterprise and small business fulfilment terms and its warranty and promotional offerings.
  • Representing multi-national beverage corporation in its joint ventures, which included joint venture formation, licenses of technology and trademarks.
  • Representing multi-national chemicals company in a cross-border joint venture, supply agreements in connection with divestitures and development template equipment and consumables agreements for customers.

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