Cross-Border Transactions & Contracts
International commercial agreements and cross-jurisdictional contract provisions, drafted with precision and tailored to the legal and commercial context.
A few examples of what we can handle
- International commercial contracts and cross-border agreements, including bilingual and multilingual drafting
- Choice-of-law and governing-law provisions in international contracts
- Jurisdiction, forum-selection, arbitration, recognition, and enforcement provisions
- Licensing, franchising, distribution, agency, supply, and services agreements across jurisdictions
- Contractual risk allocation, including warranties, indemnities, limitations of liability, remedies, and termination rights
- Negotiation and drafting of international and cross-border contracts
- Contract review, amendment, restructuring, renewal, and termination across jurisdictions
- Letters of intent, memoranda of understanding, heads of terms, and term sheets
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, including cross-border confidentiality obligations
- Contract implementation, performance issues, breach analysis, and pre-dispute contractual strategy
- Assessment of mandatory rules, regulatory constraints, and cross-jurisdictional legal risk affecting contract structure
Negotiated to prevent disputes. Drafted to preserve intent.
We approach negotiation as the first stage of dispute prevention. Before drafting, we identify the transaction’s commercial objectives, the allocation of risk, the parties’ performance obligations, and the consequences if the arrangement does not work as expected.
Where an agreement crosses jurisdictions, we also examine the legal systems, mandatory rules, enforcement environment, and linguistic nuances that may affect its meaning or operation. Particular attention is given to apparent equivalents, or legal faux amis, that may carry different effects across jurisdictions.
The objective is a contract that preserves the parties’ commercial intent, allocates risk clearly, anticipates foreseeable points of disagreement, and remains workable through performance, amendment, termination, and enforcement.
Prepare the contract for every border it may cross.
Draft with the jurisdictions, risks, and enforcement paths of the transaction already in view.
Discuss an agreement