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Need a Commercial Agreement Reviewed or Drafted? Talk to Lawnch.

When we meet a potential client, we ask them one question: tell us about a bad experience you have had with a lawyer, so we can make sure we do not repeat it.

The answer is almost always the same. My last lawyer complicated a contract to the point that the deal fell over. Yes, we are lawyers. Yes, our team is excellent at drafting and reviewing contracts. But the value is not the drafting. It is the commercial judgement about which points are worth fighting for and which ones are costing you a deal you wanted. We will never complicate a contract until it falls over.

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Contracts we draft,
review and negotiate

  • Terms and conditions, for supply and for online
  • Service agreements and supply agreements
  • Distribution and reseller agreements
  • Licence agreements
  • Contractor and consultancy agreements
  • Shareholders’ agreements and share subscription agreements
  • Share sale agreements
  • Business and asset sale agreements
  • Confidentiality agreements and NDAs
  • Loan agreements and security documents
  • Joint venture and collaboration agreements, and
  • Employment agreements and restraints.
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Three ways we work on a contract

  1. Draft it

    You tell us the deal. We write the document, and we write it so the other side’s lawyer can read it once and understand it. Clear contracts get signed. Clever contracts get renegotiated.

  2. Review it

    Somebody has sent you their standard terms and you want to know what you are actually agreeing to. We will tell you which clauses are genuinely dangerous, which ones are ordinary market practice, and which two you should push back on. Not a list of forty issues you cannot act on.

  3. Negotiate it

    We can negotiate directly with the other side on your behalf, or brief you so you can handle the conversation yourself where the relationship is better served by you being the one in the room. Some deals need a lawyer’s name on the email. Some deals are ruined by it. We will tell you which one this is.

Tammi and Ben, Lawnch Directors

Commercial contract lawyers on the Gold Coast

Lawnch acts for Gold Coast businesses across construction and trades, professional services, technology and software, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and not-for-profit, from our office at 17/99 West Burleigh Road, Burleigh Heads. The contracts we see range from a two page supply agreement to a distribution deal with an international counterparty and a liability cap that would have ended the business.

If you have a contract on your desk you have not signed because something about it feels wrong, that instinct is usually right. Send it to us.

Lodge an enquiry and we will book you a Free Consultation with one of our commercial lawyers.

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The Lawnch difference

What usually goes wrong

– You find out about the problem when it is already a problem

– The answer arrives four days after the deal needed it

– Advice comes as a list of considerations, not a decision

– You sign a document nobody walked you through

– The agreement does not survive its first real test

– The bill arrives with no relationship to the scope discussed

– Your lawyer knows the law but not your business

The Lawnch way

  • We work with you proactively to identify what you do not know yet
  • So quick to respond, we will be waiting on you
  • We tell you what we would do, and why
  • We workshop documents with you so you understand the implications
  • Every agreement is built for the raise, the dispute or the exit that will test it
  • Fixed scope agreed before we start
  • Our founders have built, run and exited companies of their own
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FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A commercial contract lawyer drafts, reviews and negotiates the agreements a business runs on, including supply agreements, service contracts, distribution agreements, NDAs and sale agreements. The useful ones also give you commercial advice on which terms are worth negotiating and which are standard, rather than just listing every risk in the document.

  • Contract review is usually quoted as a fixed fee based on the length and complexity of the document, and we give you the number before we start. A standard supplier agreement is a short job. A 60 page distribution agreement with an international counterparty is not. Your first consultation is free.

  • A template is a reasonable starting point for a low value, low risk, repeatable transaction, and a bad idea for anything else. Templates cannot allocate the risks that are specific to your deal, and the clauses that matter most, including liability caps, termination rights, IP ownership and payment terms, are exactly the ones templates get generic.

  • Check the payment terms, the term and termination rights, the liability cap and indemnities, who owns any IP created, and whether there is a restraint or exclusivity you have not noticed. If any of those are missing or one-sided, that is the conversation to have before signing rather than after.

  • Most reviews come back within two to three business days, and urgent work can be turned around faster when a deal is moving. Responsiveness is the thing we are actually known for, so if you have a deadline, tell us what it is and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.

  • Yes, and we also brief you to negotiate yourself where that serves the relationship better. Putting a lawyer directly in front of a counterparty can change the tone of a deal, so we make that call with you rather than defaulting to it.

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