Commercial Contracts and Transactions

Commercial agreements define the obligations, protections, and rights that govern business relationships. De Guzman Law advises on drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and implementation of agreements involving products, services, technology, and commercial operations.

Situations in which advice may assist

A customer, supplier, licensing, services, or distribution agreement requires drafting or negotiation.
A contract review must identify material commercial and legal risk before signature or renewal.
An existing agreement is unclear on performance, payment, responsibility, termination, or remedies.
A cross border arrangement requires coordinated contracting, dispute, and implementation terms.

Representative issues

Customer and Supplier Agreements

Terms for products and services should connect scope, pricing, acceptance, service commitments, change control, invoicing, warranties, and remedies to the way the relationship will operate.

Software and Technology Agreements

Software licensing, SaaS, platform, implementation, support, and development agreements require clear rights of use, intellectual property provisions, data responsibilities, performance commitments, and exit arrangements.

Outsourcing and Managed Services

Outsourcing terms should allocate operational responsibility, personnel and subcontractor risk, service levels, security obligations, continuity, transition assistance, and the consequences of underperformance.

Commercial Partnerships

Referral, reseller, channel, collaboration, and strategic arrangements benefit from precise authority, exclusivity, revenue allocation, brand use, customer ownership, and termination provisions.

Contract Rights and Risk Allocation

Advice may address confidentiality, indemnities, limitations of liability, insurance, assignment, suspension, termination, notice, cure, governing law, dispute resolution, and the practical ability to implement or enforce contractual rights.

International Contracting Arrangements

International agreements should account for the location of performance, counterparties, people, data, assets, mandatory rules, forum, and enforcement rather than relying on a governing law clause alone.