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Commercial Agreements

Practice Area

Commercial Agreements


Most disputes, chargebacks, and business breakdowns don't start with bad intent — they start with unclear contracts, weak terms, or gaps between how a deal was drafted and how the business actually operates.

We help founders, SaaS companies, and digital-first businesses draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements that hold up in practice — and respond strategically when issues arise. The focus is clarity, leverage, and documentation — not unnecessary escalation.

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Services
Agreements We Draft & Negotiate

SaaS & Software Agreements
Subscription terms, MSAs, SOWs, and SaaS-specific clauses — uptime, data handling, usage limits, IP ownership, and liability caps that reflect how your product actually works.
Service Agreements & Client Contracts
Scoped agreements for agencies, consultants, and service businesses — deliverables, payment milestones, revision limits, IP assignment, and clean termination rights.
Vendor & Supplier Agreements
Vendor contracts that align delivery timelines, payment terms, IP ownership, confidentiality, and your right to exit if performance falls short.
NDAs & Confidentiality Agreements
Mutual and one-way NDAs that actually protect what matters — practical definitions of confidential information, clear carve-outs, and enforceable obligations.
Partnership & Referral Agreements
Clear on deliverables, revenue or referral mechanics, brand and IP usage, exclusivity, and what happens if priorities shift.
Licensing & Distribution Agreements
IP licensing, content licensing, and distribution deals — scope of rights, exclusivity, territory, royalties, sublicensing, and what happens at termination.
Commercial Lease Review
Focused on what actually affects cost, flexibility, renewal rights, personal guarantees, and exit risk — not a clause-by-clause tour.
B2B Terms of Service & Platform Terms
Standard commercial terms for B2B platforms, marketplaces, and multi-client businesses — governing usage, payment, data, liability, and dispute resolution at scale.
Employment Agreements & Offer Letters
Employment contracts that actually reflect the role — compensation, equity, notice, IP assignment, confidentiality, and restrictive covenants drafted to hold up and comply with Ontario employment standards.
Shareholder Agreements
Governing the relationship between shareholders — voting rights, transfer restrictions, decision thresholds, equity and vesting mechanics, and what happens when a founder leaves or things don't go as planned.
Services
Contract Review & Risk Assessment

Reviewing a contract before you sign is one of the highest-leverage things you can do. We look at the document alongside how you actually operate — then give you a plain-English risk summary and practical edits you can use.

Red-Flag Review Before Signature
Identifying material risks, unclear obligations, payment gaps, termination problems, and IP issues before you commit — so you don't discover the problem after it matters.
Plain-English Risk Summary
What's risky, what's market-standard, what's missing, and what's negotiable — framed around your actual leverage, timing, and deal reality.
Redlines & Negotiation Support
Clean edits you can send directly to the other side, plus support on positioning your asks and responding to pushback — without stalling the deal.
Existing Contract Clean-Up
Rewriting dispute-prone clauses in agreements already in use — payment timing, approvals, refunds, usage rights, and termination — so they work when something goes wrong.
What you get

Every contract review includes a practical risk summary — not just a markup. You'll know what the clause actually does, what needs to change, what's acceptable, and where the real business risk sits. Fixed-fee, scoped upfront.

Services
Disputes & Enforcement

When something goes wrong, the priority is protecting your position and resolving the issue efficiently — not escalating unnecessarily or creating new exposure through careless communication.

Non-Payment & Demand Letters
Structured escalation and demand letters when a client, brand, contractor, or partner fails to pay — drafted from a position of leverage, with a clear path to resolution.
Breach of Contract & Dispute Strategy
Reviewing the facts, assessing your position under the contract, and advising on the cleanest path to resolution — before the situation becomes more expensive.
Chargebacks & Payment Disputes
Documentation strategy, evidence framing, and contract alignment to respond to chargebacks — and reduce the risk of repeat issues with processors and platforms.
Content Misuse & Scope Enforcement
Addressing unauthorized use, reposting, or use beyond agreed rights — with documented, platform-aware enforcement steps that keep the pressure on without chaos.
Reputation-Sensitive Disputes
Guidance on written communications and positioning where customer complaints, public allegations, or brand risk are involved — so your words don't create new exposure.
Regulatory Correspondence & Compliance Positioning
When a regulator, platform, or authority is involved, your first response matters. We help frame the issue, preserve the record, and respond in a way that protects your position without escalating unnecessarily.
What goes wrong
Common Contract Problems We Fix

Payment Terms Look "Standard" Until There's a Dispute
We tighten timing, milestones, late-payment leverage, refund boundaries, and proof-of-delivery so you can enforce cleanly and respond to disputes with better documentation.
Deliverables and Scope Are Vague — so Expectations Drift
We clarify deliverables, timelines, revision caps, approval windows, and acceptance rules so scope creep and buyer's remorse don't become disputes.
Termination Clauses Are One-Sided or Unusable in Practice
We fix termination triggers, notice mechanics, wind-down obligations, and what happens to fees, deliverables, and IP — so you're not trapped in a bad deal or stuck with unpaid work.
Usage Rights Get Stretched Beyond What Was Agreed
We document rights, platforms, duration, whitelisting and ads use, and attribution so you can enforce boundaries when content gets reused without permission.
Liability Is Uncapped or Indemnities Are One-Way
We flag unlimited liability exposure, broad IP indemnities, and one-sided risk allocation — and propose cleaner edits that still keep the deal moving.
A Dispute Is Live and the Written Record Is Messy
We help clean up communications and evidence, clarify positions, and build a strategy that preserves leverage — without escalating unnecessarily or creating avoidable admissions.
Working style
What the Process Looks Like

01
Share the Contract and the Real Business Context

We review the document alongside how you actually operate — delivery, approvals, payment flow, platforms, and what could realistically go wrong.

02
You Get a Risk Summary and Edits That Improve Leverage

Clear issue spotting, practical recommendations, and clean redlines so the contract works in the real world — not just on paper. Fixed-fee, scoped upfront.

03
If a Dispute Is Already Live, We Stabilize It First

Evidence strategy, documentation clean-up, and proportional escalation — so you resolve the issue with confidence while protecting your reputation and operations.

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