Contract lawyers for SMEs
You sign more agreements than you have time to read properly. One bad set of terms can wipe out a year of margin.
Every year, successful SME leaders invest a substantial share of company income in making sure the business is operating lawfully and safely. The difficulty is juggling that budget against reliable, quality legal support — so contracts get signed unread, and the problem only surfaces when something goes wrong.
We give SMEs a contract lawyer without the cost of employing one, phased in to suit your cash flow.
The contracts that catch SMEs out
- Customer terms you did not write. A larger client sends their standard terms and calls them non-negotiable
- Payment terms. 60 or 90 days agreed without anyone modelling what it does to cash flow
- Uncapped liability. An indemnity that quietly exceeds the value of the contract, and your insurance
- Auto-renewal and exclusivity. Lock-ins nobody noticed until the exit was needed
- Supplier terms. No remedies when the supplier fails, because nobody negotiated the SLA
- Nothing in writing at all. A relationship that worked on trust until it stopped
How we work with SMEs
Start with a single contract review to see how we work. Move to a monthly package when the volume justifies it, and scale the hours up or down as your workload changes.
- Your standard terms drafted once, properly, then reused
- Inbound contracts reviewed before signature, with a plain-English report
- Negotiation handled for you where the other side is larger or better advised
- Somewhere to send a contract quickly, instead of signing it and hoping
- Fixed monthly fees, so legal spend is a budget line rather than a shock