Commercial Transactions

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Commercial Transactions

Taft’s Commercial Transactions practice helps public and privately held companies operate, grow their businesses, and create a competitive advantage. We have a long history of drafting, negotiating, and enforcing commercial agreements, skills that require a broad base of legal expertise and an in-depth understanding of each client’s business, objectives, and approach to commercial risk. We advise clients on ways to detect and mitigate risks while helping our clients capitalize on revenue and growth opportunities.

Our Commercial Transactions team provides an insider’s perspective on forming and maintaining dynamic relationships between manufacturers, vendors, suppliers, strategic partners, customers, and other key stakeholders. Experienced in industries as diverse as aerospace, agribusiness, technology, energy, manufacturing, distribution, shipping and trading, food and beverage, professional services, equipment leasing, and construction services, our team includes attorneys who formerly worked in-house in the industries they serve. The breadth of Taft’s experience across a wide range of industry groups enables us to quickly grasp the challenges our clients face, to help our clients problem-solve, and to develop creative approaches that help our clients strategically address and resolve many of the most significant issues they encounter.

Shaping Outcomes

We take a multidisciplinary, holistic approach when negotiating and structuring transactions, collaborating with the client’s internal stakeholders and Taft’s various practice groups when specialized issues arise. Whether it’s international trade and export control, anti-corruption compliance, antitrust and competition, or intellectual property protection, our goal is to provide seamless, efficient service and the necessary skill set to make certain all bases are well covered.

We negotiate transformative partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, as well as other types of commercial transactions, including:

Intellectual property acquisition, licensing, and sales agreements.
Software license, development, and reseller agreements.
Complex service agreements.
Product development and manufacturing agreements.
Technology transactions.
Procurement contracts, distribution agreements, and other supply chain agreements.
Outsourcing contracts.
Intra-company agreements.
Development of standard terms and conditions.