Contracts and Deal Making

A contract is a plan for what happens when things do not go as expected. Most of the value in drafting and reviewing one is in the situations nobody wants to talk about yet.

What this covers

• Drafting agreements from scratch for a specific transaction
• Reviewing an agreement someone has put in front of you, with a clear read on the real risk
• Redlining and revisions, with the reasoning behind each change
• Negotiating directly with the other side when that is the faster path
• Master service agreements, statements of work, and vendor terms
• Licensing, distribution, and reseller agreements
• Non disclosure, non solicitation, and confidentiality agreements
• Settlement and release agreements

Big or small

Routine agreements can often be handled quickly and at a predictable fee. Complex transactions get the attention they need. Either way you get a recommendation, not a list of everything that could theoretically go wrong.