Contract Negotiation
Our lawyers help businesses and individuals negotiate all types of transactions. ContractCounsel’s approach makes hiring a lawyer affordable so you don’t have to handle a transaction alone.
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Common contracts our lawyers help negotiate
What is Contract Negotiation?
If you run a business, you find yourself negotiating with many different parties. You may negotiate your lease with your landlord, a service contract with a customer, a vendor agreement with a supplier, or an employment agreement with an employee.
This process of going back-and-forth with another party on the key terms in a contract until both sides are happy is called Contract Negotiation. Key terms can include things like price, delivery date, refund policies, payment terms, etc.
This process may involve you taking less favorable positions for certain aspects of the transaction to receive other more favorable positions for others – others that you deem to be important for yourself or your business.
Contract Negotiation Examples
- Negotiate vendor contracts with key suppliers
- Negotiate sales agreements with key customers
- Negotiate severance agreements with terminated employees
- Negotiate employment contracts with potentialhires
- Negotiate nondisclosure agreements with partners
- Negotiate loan agreements with financing partners
- Negotiate promissory notes with investors
Contract Negotiation Strategies
- Define your objectives before you start negotiating
- Ask open ended questions to other side
- Listen more than you speak
- Do not make the first major concession
- Avoid saying yes too quickly
When to Hire a Lawyer for Negotiation
There are many transactions where it would be in your best interest to hire a lawyer. Some characteristics of these transactions are below:
- Specialty service or product
- Large price tag
- Transaction with long term impacts
- Highly regulated industry
- Important employment issue
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Larry B.
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I am a business, intellectual property and technology transactions attorney focuses on working with entrepreneurs, investors, emerging and established businesses to negotiate and draft business agreements, commercialize innovation, protect intellectual property rights, and reward capital risk

Richard
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Texas attorney with two-year federal judicial clerkship leveraging outstanding research, writing, and editing abilities to produce and review contracts. My decade-long background is in corporate law and civil litigation.

Linda F.
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Texas attorney with two-year federal judicial clerkship leveraging outstanding research, writing, and editing abilities to produce and review contracts. My decade-long background is in corporate law and civil litigation.

Brandon
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Texas attorney with two-year federal judicial clerkship leveraging outstanding research, writing, and editing abilities to produce and review contracts. My decade-long background is in corporate law and civil litigation.