Commercial contracts are the fabric of our clients' businesses. We work collaboratively with all types of clients across the firm to help them achieve and sustain their business goals in real time around the world. Our multidisciplinary approach leveraging specialists throughout the firm provides clients with access to resources in diverse industries and areas of law.
We work with clients to structure, document, and negotiate their commercial transactions, positioning clients for opportunity and managing potential risks. Our commercial transactions span the globe, and touch industries including manufacturing, distribution and supply chain, health care, technology, financial services, consumer products and services, retail, and energy.
Our commercial contracting practice provides sophisticated yet practical advice for all manner of transactions. We understand that business often moves at the speed of your commercial contracts, and we work efficiently to meet your deadlines. We structure, draft, and negotiate a wide spectrum of contracts for all types of matters, ranging from the routine contracts to the highly complex, bet-the-business agreements.
We help clients achieve their goals in matters including:
We address commercial issues, including international dispute resolution, cross-border tax, cross-border intellectual property rights, and foreign corrupt practices counseling. Our attorneys are well-equipped to handle information technology needs, including in the areas of commercial contracting, licensing, and privacy and data security. In addition, we can advise on licensing and intellectual property issues, including software as a service model, cloud computing, and robotics licensing.
Our clients also rely on us to provide creative solutions for complex outsourcing transactions across a seamless global platform.
In addition, we have a dynamic and proven contract life cycle management practice. We advise clients of all types in implementing best practices, processes, personnel realignment, and technology solutions to efficiently and systematically manage contract creation, execution, negotiation, implementation, performance, analysis, review, storage, reporting, and compliance. We have a multidisciplinary team with decades of experience helping clients streamline their contracting processes, to reduce the dependence on outside counsel, maximize financial and operational performance, and minimize overall risk.
We assist our clients, both large and small, domestic and international, in architecting an entire Enterprise Contract Life Cycle Management Process to standardize and streamline every stage of the life cycle of a contract across their various business units. We develop best practice process workflows; design efficient roles and responsibility matrices; create best practice forms, templates and playbooks; help select and customize technology solutions to automate the contracting process; and train the entire organization. Those of our clients whom we have led through a contract life cycle management transformation have realized significant value in reduced outside legal fees, better management of contract risks, decreased contract cycle times, and most important, relief from the increasing burdens on in-house legal departments, through the implementation of more efficient operating processes.
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