Commercial Contracts

Commercial contracts allocate rights, responsibilities and risk between businesses. Effective drafting should reflect the actual transaction rather than rely on a generic template. Jadhav & Co. assists businesses, founders, professionals and organisations with drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, with attention to payment, performance, liability, confidentiality, termination and dispute-resolution provisions.

Commercial Agreements We Draft and Review

Depending on the transaction, we assist with service agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, consultancy arrangements, confidentiality agreements, licensing or commercial-use arrangements, business collaboration documents and other contracts used in day-to-day operations. The precise document should reflect the transaction structure and the parties' intended responsibilities.

Contract Negotiation

Contract review is not limited to proofreading. We identify legal and commercial issues that may affect performance, payment, liability, termination, confidentiality, ownership of work product and dispute exposure. Where required, we assist in preparing revisions or negotiation points for discussion with the other party.

Vendor and Service Agreements

Vendor and service arrangements should clearly identify scope, deliverables, service levels where relevant, timelines, acceptance criteria, invoicing, taxes, confidentiality, data handling, intellectual-property ownership, limitation of liability, termination rights and dispute resolution. The relative importance of these provisions depends on the transaction and bargaining position of the parties.

Confidentiality and Intellectual Property Clauses

Where a contract involves proprietary information, software, designs, content, trade information or jointly created material, ownership and permitted use should be addressed expressly. We assist with confidentiality, licensing and intellectual-property provisions that correspond to the actual business arrangement.

Payment, Liability and Indemnity Provisions

Payment terms, delayed-payment consequences, representations, warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability and exclusions should be considered together rather than copied independently from templates. We review these provisions for internal consistency and for the commercial risk they place on each party.

Termination and Dispute Resolution

Contracts should make clear how the relationship may end, what happens to outstanding obligations, and how disputes are to be handled. We assist with termination provisions, cure periods, survival clauses, jurisdiction clauses and arbitration or other dispute-resolution mechanisms where appropriate.

Contract Risk Review

For higher-value or operationally important agreements, we can provide a clause-by-clause legal review identifying material obligations, unusual risk allocation, missing protections and points requiring commercial decision-making. The purpose is to help the client understand the document before signing, not to eliminate every possible business risk.