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The Lawyer International - Legal 100 - 2025 in the category of: Best Contract Law Services

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Best Contract Law Services 2024

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We specialise in 

• Lease Review
• Contract Checking 
• Contract Review
• Business Debt Recovery

Telephone us on

0333 121 0161

between 09.00 - 18.00 Monday to Friday

Surrey Office

Office Suite 1

LFC Ltd

Fetcham Grove

Guildford Road

Leatherhead

Surrey, KT22 9AS

Lease Review, Contract Review and Checking Service 

We provide fixed cost contract checking and contract review service covering contracts, terms and conditions, leases and business agreements. We check your legal documents/agreements to ensure they are fit for purpose for which you intend to use them and there are no liabilities or costs at a later date. 

Where you are already using template documents or have never checked a contract or agreement we can ensure they are legally compliant. We also advise on alignment with your ways of working so any document checked by us is less likely to fail when tested.

Our service precludes disputes that lead to non payment and debt issues caused by poorly drafted clauses, poor ways of working, unsustainable delivery mechanisms (including ambiguous payment terms), and poor or non-existent disputes procedures. 

Effectively drafted Agreements can preclude poor payments and the disputes that follow.

Please call 0333 121 0161 for a free no obligation discussion about our services; or

visit our contact page and we will get back to you the same day.

Our specialist team have many years of experience in checking and drafting contracts documents across England and beyond.

What is a Contract Review?

A contract review is a contractual process used to identify and analyse the key provisions within any agreement. 

It is established law that if you sign something you are responsible for it,  so any signed contract, agreement or terms and conditions can have significant implications for the future of your business. We check your documents so that you aren't exposed to substantial risk. 

There is no such thing as a standard document/ contract and there is no excuse under law for not doing contract review on what you are given before signature. Reviewing a contract before it is signed clarifies each party's obligations, protects their interests and ensures that all parties are being treated fairly. 

Unlike other companies who use contract review software  we enact contract reviews manually to analyse the implications of every provision.  

Why Are Contract Reviews Important?

Any contract is a legally binding agreement. Without a thorough review, there's a risk that the parties could be committed to something they can't deliver. They could also be lumbered with unfavourable terms that lead to costly, and entirely avoidable, legal disputes.

Therefore the contract review process is important as it reduces the legal and financial risk involved in any agreement. 

A contract review ensures that all terms are fair, enforceable, and properly documented; making it clear what happens if either party were to break the conditions laid out in the contract.

Our unique approach means that we can translate the legal gobbledygook into plain English.

Who Enacts the Contract checking /contract review?

We use a diligent and experienced paralegal team under out £1m PI insurance and set out a summary of the key points of liability and potential liability.

A basic premise often overlooked by lawyers and contract checking software is that contracts never fail on the legal wording they fail in the way real people work with each other in real situations. It is no good having all the legal wording in the world if the parties cannot agree on how they work together or what they will do when an unforeseen event happens.
 

What Are the Key Steps in a Contract Review?

Contract reviews can be broken down into many areas, but we seek to keep it simple (KISS) for the business and what risks they are likely to face, a careful review of the payment terms and triggers, commercial terms and duration periods.

An example is days eom on payment. 30 days eom = 44 days average payment

60day eom = 84 days average payment.

Contract Review Checklist

Here is a quick rundown of some of the key points we include in your contract review checklist:

1. Does the contract accurately describe the negotiated agreement?
2. Are the parties involved properly identified?
3. Is the duration of the contract clear, including any expiration dates, fixed renewals that precludes termination and break clauses?
4. What are the payment terms and triggers? What are the payment dates and are they accurate?
5. Are there any terms that could be open to interpretation?
6. Are both parties' obligations accurately described?
7. Are there terms in place for the termination and renewal of the contract?
8. Is there a proper disputes resolution procedure included?

We check all types of legal documents, agreements, contracts, terms and conditions, leases, service agreements etc and have checked contracts ranging from an introducers contract for a young footballer to a multi million pound development from a large UK house builder and contracts across EMEA, BRIC, LATAM,  north America and  Australasia.  Below is just an example of what we work with. 

If you don’t see your document on the list of documents we accept, please contact us.

See our Legal Services.

We review and draft the following types of business agreements and contracts:

1. All types of corporation creation agreements
2. All varieties of joint venture agreements
3. Building works contracts industrial and domestic (including JCT)
4. Bylaws
5. Confidentiality Agreements
6. Consultancy agreements
7. Conversions
8. Corporate amendments.
9. Franchise agreements
10. General contracts
11. Mediation agreements
12. Mutual agreements
13. Non-Compete Agreements
14. Non-disclosure agreements
15. Non-profit
16. Property lease & other related documents
17. Retainer agreements
18. Supplier or supply contracts
19. Shareholder agreements
20. Time-Share or Shared Ownership Agreements
21. Union contracts – buying/selling contracts

We check the following types of personal agreements and contracts:

1. Civil Partnership agreements
2. Cohabitation agreements
3. Confidentiality Agreements
4. Contracts of Employment
5. Co-ownership agreements
6. Employment releases
7. Independent contractor agreements
8. Lease agreements (car and property)
9. Life insurance or policies
10. Non Compete Agreements
11. Non-disclosure agreements
12. Power of attorney
13. Prenuptial agreements
14. Rent agreements
15. Retirement plans
16. Separation & Divorce contracts, agreements
17. Tenancy agreements and tenancy contracts
18. Travel and travel related insurance contracts or policies

If you do not currently use Terms and Conditions, you are leaving your business wide open to problems. We are able to advise and draft terms and conditions at fixed fees and advise you on the law of contract so there are no loopholes for any potential dispute.

We cover the following

1. Drafting Terms and Conditions

We draft terms and conditions. All we need is a breadkdown of the way you are working and seeking to deliver goods and/or services.

2. Overhaul of current Terms and Conditions

Many businesses do not review their terms and conditions. We provide a Terms and Conditions health check to assess your current terms and advise how they could be updated and improved to protect your business further.

3. Concise terms regarding overdue payment, charges and interest

We can help you ensure your terms and conditions clearly state the provisions of the law under late payment.

Advice on how to ensure terms are effective and legally binding

It is a common misconception that terms and conditions need to be signed for them to be legally binding and enforceable. We advise you on the law  to ensure you are fully protected at all times. 

Special terms for individual business sectors

Due to our experience dealing with contracts across a wide variety of business and  industry sectors, we can provide clients with advice on special and unique terms and conditions required in your business sector.