Contracts & Agreements

Commercial agency contract under Council Directive 86/653/EEC on self-employed commercial agents (as transposed in each Member State). Captures the p…

Cease and desist letter — formal demand from a rights-holder (or its counsel) that a recipient stop an allegedly unlawful activity (typically IP infr…

Demand letter — formal written demand for payment or specific performance (or both) served before the creditor escalates to collection, arbitration o…

Common legal documents for business relationships: service agreements, NDAs, rental agreements, and employment offers.

Franchise agreement — licence to operate a business under the franchisor's brand, system, and know-how in exchange for initial and ongoing fees. In t…

IP assignment — full transfer of title in identified IP from assignor to assignee. Common in (i) employee or contractor IP clean-up, (ii) asset-purch…

IP licence agreement — licensor grants licensee a defined right to exploit specified IP rights in a defined field of use, territory, and term, in exc…

Letter of Intent (LOI) — typically mostly non-binding statement of a commercial deal's main terms, used to frame due diligence and negotiation of a d…

Memorandum of Understanding — typically non-binding expression of strategic intent to cooperate between two or more organisations. Distinct from an L…

Master Services Agreement (MSA) — country-agnostic framework contract between a client and a service provider that governs repeated or multi-engageme…

Common legal documents for business relationships: service agreements, NDAs, rental agreements, and employment offers.

Mutual non-disclosure agreement (two-way). Each party may disclose confidential information and receives corresponding protection. Distinct from the…

Common legal documents for business relationships: service agreements, NDAs, rental agreements, and employment offers.

Reseller / channel partner agreement — vendor appoints a reseller to resell products or services in a defined territory. Distinct from agency (no aut…

SaaS subscription agreement — multi-tenant cloud software subscription. Covers service description, plan, fees and billing, term, SLA, data protectio…

Common legal documents for business relationships: service agreements, NDAs, rental agreements, and employment offers.

Commercial settlement agreement — binding compromise that resolves a commercial dispute between two or more businesses, typically comprising mutual r…

Statement of Work (SOW) executed under a Master Services Agreement (MSA). Captures a specific engagement's scope, deliverables with acceptance criter…

Investment term sheet — non-binding summary of the principal terms of a proposed equity or quasi-equity investment round, used to frame drafting of t…

Generic termination notice for a commercial contract (NOT employment — employment dismissal lives in '{cc}.dismissal.*'). Captures the identifying de…