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Business Contracts
Business Contracts
Good contracts start with a clear understanding of the commercial deal. We help you work through what your business needs from an agreement, identify the key commercial issues and prepare for the legal drafting process.
Understanding what your business needs
A contract should reflect the commercial deal you're actually making.
We’ll help you work through the key business issues, including what each party is expected to do, payment arrangements, responsibilities, timeframes, ownership of IP and what should happen if things don't go to plan.
You’ll have a clearer commercial brief to take into the contract drafting process.
Understanding a contract before you sign
Been sent a contract by a customer, supplier, partner or other business?
We can help you understand the commercial arrangements you're being asked to accept, identify the business issues you should consider and prepare questions for the other party or your lawyer.
Where legal advice or contract review is required, we'll make that clear so you can get the appropriate legal advice.
Keeping your commercial arrangements current
Your business changes. Your commercial arrangements should change with it.
We can help you identify when an existing contract, arrangement or business process no longer reflects how you actually operate and what needs to be addressed.
If the changes require legal drafting or legal advice, we'll help you identify what needs to be taken to a lawyer.
What we can help with
Our business contract consultancy can help you work through:
what you need an agreement to achieve
the commercial terms you want to agree
responsibilities and deliverables
pricing and payment arrangements
timeframes and milestones
ownership and use of IP
confidentiality and information-sharing arrangements
termination and exit considerations
supplier and customer arrangements
contractor and business partner arrangements
questions to raise with the other party
issues to discuss with your lawyer before a contract is signed
The focus is on helping you understand the commercial deal and make better-informed business decisions.
An experienced commercial sounding board
Small and growing businesses don't always have someone internally who can work through the commercial side of a contract.
We can provide an experienced outside perspective before you commit to an arrangement, helping you understand the commercial issues and prepare for the next conversation.
That might mean working through a proposed supplier arrangement, customer agreement, partnership, distribution arrangement or other business relationship.
Business consultancy, not legal advice
Hawk IP provides business and commercial consultancy. We do not provide legal advice or legal representation.
Our role is to help you understand the commercial issues, clarify what your business needs and prepare for discussions with the other party or your lawyer.
If you need legal advice, legal drafting or representation, we'll tell you when you should engage an appropriately qualified lawyer.
Understanding what your business needs
A contract should reflect the commercial deal you're actually making.
We’ll help you work through the key business issues, including what each party is expected to do, payment arrangements, responsibilities, timeframes, ownership of IP and what should happen if things don't go to plan.
You’ll have a clearer commercial brief to take into the contract drafting process.
Understanding a contract before you sign
Been sent a contract by a customer, supplier, partner or other business?
We can help you understand the commercial arrangements you're being asked to accept, identify the business issues you should consider and prepare questions for the other party or your lawyer.
Where legal advice or contract review is required, we'll make that clear so you can get the appropriate legal advice.
Keeping your commercial arrangements current
Your business changes. Your commercial arrangements should change with it.
We can help you identify when an existing contract, arrangement or business process no longer reflects how you actually operate and what needs to be addressed.
If the changes require legal drafting or legal advice, we'll help you identify what needs to be taken to a lawyer.
What we can help with
Our business contract consultancy can help you work through:
what you need an agreement to achieve
the commercial terms you want to agree
responsibilities and deliverables
pricing and payment arrangements
timeframes and milestones
ownership and use of IP
confidentiality and information-sharing arrangements
termination and exit considerations
supplier and customer arrangements
contractor and business partner arrangements
questions to raise with the other party
issues to discuss with your lawyer before a contract is signed
The focus is on helping you understand the commercial deal and make better-informed business decisions.
An experienced commercial sounding board
Small and growing businesses don't always have someone internally who can work through the commercial side of a contract.
We can provide an experienced outside perspective before you commit to an arrangement, helping you understand the commercial issues and prepare for the next conversation.
That might mean working through a proposed supplier arrangement, customer agreement, partnership, distribution arrangement or other business relationship.
Business consultancy, not legal advice
Hawk IP provides business and commercial consultancy. We do not provide legal advice or legal representation.
Our role is to help you understand the commercial issues, clarify what your business needs and prepare for discussions with the other party or your lawyer.
If you need legal advice, legal drafting or representation, we'll tell you when you should engage an appropriately qualified lawyer.
FAQ
Common questions
Can you draft a contract for my business?
Can you review a contract before I sign it?
Can you help me negotiate a contract?
What types of business arrangements can you help with?
Why would I use Hawk IP rather than go straight to a lawyer?
Need help with a business agreement?
Tell us about the deal and we’ll help you clarify the commercial issues and prepare for the legal drafting or advice you may need.