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Commercial contracts are the fundamental basis upon which any business develops and grows. Getting it wrong can have serious consequences for your business. Whether the agreements relevant to your business concern the procurement or the supply of goods, technology, information or services, or your business processes such as licensing, distribution, agency and resale, you will need legal advisers who understand your commercial imperatives and can deliver results efficiently and cost-effectively based on market knowledge and experience.

We advise both customers and suppliers on all aspects of commercial contracts from procurement and supply agreements through to marketing, advertising, distribution, agency, licensing, franchising, collaboration and R&D agreements. We advise on simple heads of terms through to complex multi-jurisdictional supplier ecosystems.

Our lawyers work with organisations in all industry sectors, including consumer products, TMT, life sciences & healthcare, financial services, energy and utilities, manufacturing and logistics.

Our clients include both growing businesses and established multinationals. CMS’ wide global coverage makes sure we are able to advise on cross-border agreements while taking into account local liabilities, sensitivities and negotiation strategies.

High­lights of our ex­per­i­ence in Com­mer­cial Con­tracts in the UK
An in­nov­at­ive so­cial net­work­ing site on a range of com­mer­cial con­tracts, in­clud­ing celebrity en­dorse­ment con­tracts and in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty li­cences.A mul­tina­tion­al vehicle man­u­fac­turer on dis­tri­bu­tion...
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17/02/2023
VBER and Ver­tic­al Guidelines leave ques­tion open on what re­stric­tions are...
Art­icle 4 lit. e) VBER, newly in­tro­duced with the 2022 re­form of the VBER, reg­u­lates a hard­core re­stric­tion for all forms of dis­tri­bu­tion that is spe­cific­ally geared to In­ter­net com­merce, and is now cent­ral...
Law-Now Consumer Products
21/02/2023
Key en­ergy ef­fi­ciency changes for com­mer­cial prop­erty from 1 April 2023
From 1 April 2023, there will be a pro­hib­i­tion on land­lords of com­mer­cial prop­erty con­tinu­ing to let prop­er­ties with sub-stand­ard EPC rat­ings un­der the min­im­um en­ergy ef­fi­ciency stand­ards or ‘MEES’. We...
Event Webinar
01/11/2022
Com­mer­cial rent pay­ments in Eng­land and Wales
1. Gen­er­al over­view Un­like some oth­er jur­is­dic­tions, there have been few re­por­ted de­cisions on this is­sue in Eng­land and Wales. The UK Gov­ern­ment’s ap­proach to com­mer­cial rent ar­rears dur­ing the pan­dem­ic...
Expert Guide Commercial
03/11/2022
Risk Es­sen­tials: Com­mer­cial Con­tracts - Set your­self up for suc­cess: Get­ting...
Many con­tract dis­putes could be avoided if the parties got cer­tain fun­da­ment­als right at the out­set of the re­la­tion­ship. In this ses­sion, our speak­ers will take a close look at some of the is­sues that...
Event Webinar
08/04/2021
Reach­ing an agree­ment on vary­ing a con­tract (Video)
As a res­ult of COV­ID-19 the need to amend the terms of com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships has in­creased ex­po­nen­tially for some busi­nesses. It may no longer be pos­sible to per­form cer­tain con­tracts due to changes...
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30/03/2021
Gov­ern­ing Law and Jur­is­dic­tion in Air­craft Leas­ing
Should you con­tin­ue to choose Eng­lish law and Eng­lish courts for your air­craft leases?  Will Eng­lish court judg­ments be en­force­able across the EU? Does the form of sub­mis­sion to jur­is­dic­tion clauses...
Publication
10/11/2020
Risk Es­sen­tials: Fu­ture Fa­cing Com­mer­cial Con­tracts
In this we­bin­ar, we will take a look at some sig­ni­fic­ant trends and is­sues fa­cing com­mer­cial con­tract parties in the post-COV­ID world.Good faith case up­date: a num­ber of re­cent court de­cisions have fo­cused...
Event Webinar
10/09/2020
Priv­ilege: What you need to know
The last couple of years have seen some im­port­ant de­vel­op­ments in Eng­lish case law in the area of leg­al pro­fes­sion­al priv­ilege, from the Court of Ap­peal over­turn­ing a re­strict­ive in­ter­pret­a­tion of lit­ig­a­tion...
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21/02/2017
Olswang named 2017 Glob­al Out­sourcing 100® com­pany by IAOP®
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.The In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­ation of Out­sourcing Pro­fes­sion­als® (IAOP®) has for the fourth year in a row named in­ter­na­tion­al...
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12/01/2017
Olswang ad­vises Hubert Burda Me­dia on ac­quis­i­tion of the UKs Im­me­di­ate...
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.In­ter­na­tion­al tech­no­logy, me­dia and tele­coms law firm Olswang has ad­vised Mu­nich-based tech­no­logy and me­dia com­pany Hubert...
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24/05/2016
CMS UK launches Brexit check­lists
With only a month to go un­til the ref­er­en­dum on Bri­tain’s mem­ber­ship of the EU, the polit­ic­al de­bate is in­tensi­fy­ing as both the re­main and leave groups put for­ward their cases.Today, we are launch­ing...
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