Commercial contracts

In today's financially constrained world, the need to have commercial arrangements which both exploit the benefits of your relationships and protect against the downsides has never been more important. We believe that an effective and enforceable set of arrangements with both your suppliers and your customers is the bedrock of financial success for any business.

The challenge in today's market is to ensure that not only are your major relationships properly captured and documented, but also the smaller, less high-profile ones. Ironically these can produce just as much pain and expense and can take less effort to manage. The challenge is how to do this effectively whilst keeping a control of your central costs.

SASLO’s commercial team delivers effective contractual arrangements for their clients. Our team of 'client relationship lawyers' focus on the commercial reality that matters to ensure that your contracts deliver the value and benefits you need.

Given our dedicated approach to this we can be cost-effective and insightful, anticipating issues and areas that need to be addressed that your own team may not have thought of. In addition, with our contract process review program we can help you put in place systems that address not only the major high-profile relationships but also your business as usual relationships.

Our key strengths:

• advising on risk management, procurement strategy and the regulatory environment.
• assisting with the tender process and tender evaluations.
• drafting and negotiating project documentation with supply chain members.
• advising on the appropriate use of lump sum, target cost and other pricing mechanisms and on the evaluation of tenders and the award of contracts.
• advising on standard form contracts and bespoke forms of contract and other project documentation, such as consultant agreements, bonds, warranties and guarantees, and conducting risk-based due diligence reviews for clients proposing to purchase development opportunities or completed developments.
• reviewing, drafting and negotiating project agreements, EPC/EPCM contracts, design and build contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, construction management contracts, partnering and framework agreements.
• reviewing the industry standard forms and amending, updating and restructuring the agreements / documents in line with the relevant provisions, applicable laws and International Best practice rules.
• advising on procurement and construction issues and handle any disputes that might arise.