Your Goal: Sign, close, amend or terminate a commercial contract

Contracts are the lifeblood of any business, as they regulate and describe the interaction between your company and your partners, suppliers, contractors, employees and consultants. Accordingly, contracts should be properly drafted and monitored as required to manage risks, prevent or favourably settle disputes and, all in all, to ensure the health of and a minimum amount of distress to your business.

At MPR Partners, we have broad and extensive knowledge and understanding of contracts, and our Commercial & Contract Law team includes some of the most talented and knowledgeable lawyers on the market, with an in-depth understanding of legal and customary contractual mechanisms as well as the requisite skills and expertise required to handle even the most complex contractual frameworks. We have extensive experience with virtually all types of agreements, from the most common (sale-purchase, lease, distribution, manufacturing, services, transportation, etc.) to atypical or intricate arrangements spanning the entire functioning of a project.

We achieve the excellent results in this field by various techniques. Firstly, we take the time of adapting the structure of the contract not only to the commercial aims and features of the relevant operation, but also to the counterparty’s profile, as required to ensure a smooth negotiation and signing. That is, we do not replicate contracts, we build and customize them from the scratch. Secondly, no contract leaves our desks without being thoroughly perused from lawyers specializing in the relevant fields of expertise for the relevant contract, such as Aviation, Transportation & Shipping, Banking & Finance, Competition, Corporate Law, Employment, Energy & Natural Resources, Intellectual Property, IT & Telecommunications, Real Estate & Construction, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, PPP & Public Procurement, Tax, etc. Thirdly, we do not get stuck during negotiations into legal technicalities and base our discussions with the counterparties on a careful assessment of risks and balance of interests and forces amongst the parties.

Moreover, our advice in terms of contracts extends to signing and closing representation, pre-contractual and post signing correspondence and parties’ conduct (which is likely to shape up the outcome of many disputes), as well as performance monitoring and strategic negotiation of requisite amendments of the contract terms. Finally, our extensive expertise in Litigation, Arbitration & ADR guarantees that, should you ever go to court for a dispute concerning the contract, the terms carved out therein will provide the requisite protection.

Ultimately, contracts are all about forward thinking and anticipating what your business’s goals and necessities will be in the long run. However, goals and necessities change, and contracts often need to be terminated to reflect or support such changes. At this time, it is important to make sure that you have the best advice possible, since the opposing interests of the parties usually place them in potentially litigious and distress causing situations. In such a case, our Commercial & Contract Law team can help you with innovative business-oriented solutions for a smooth and amicable termination whereas our Litigation,

Arbitration & ADR department can support you in court where contract infringements and parties’ positions leave no room for negotiations.

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