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Contract Services
Most contractual disputes are not caused by bad faith. They are caused by documents that were never reconciled with one another.
Where contracts fail
Commercial agreements in industrial sectors are rarely a single document. A purchase order, a set of general conditions, a technical specification and a schedule of agreed deviations are signed together and treated as one contract, until they disagree.
When that happens, the questions that decide the outcome are unglamorous ones. Which document takes precedence. Which law governs. Where a dispute is heard, and under whose rules. These are settled at signature, cheaply, or years later at considerable expense.
forming this Agreement, they shall take precedence
in the order
How we help
- DraftingPreparing agreements and their supporting schedules as a coherent set rather than as separate instruments.
- ReviewExamining a proposed contract for internal conflict, unallocated risk and unworkable dispute provisions before it is signed.
- NegotiationActing alongside clients in commercial negotiations, or preparing their position and supporting them through it.
- Contract managementAdministering obligations, variations, notices and deadlines once an agreement is running.
Agreements we work with
Particular attention
Dispute clauses are small on the page and large in consequence.
Seat, governing law, forum, rules and precedence can determine the practical outcome long after the commercial terms have been forgotten.
Before the contract is signed, get the documents working together.
Tell us briefly what you are dealing with. We will tell you promptly whether Welshdale is the right fit.