Your suppliers can stop your business as effectively as your customers can.
If a critical supplier is late, delivers something that does not work, loses your data or walks away mid-contract, your own customer obligations do not pause while you sort it out.
Most supplier contracts are drafted by the supplier and cap their liability at a level that makes commercial sense for them and none at all for you.
Protecting Your Business with Supplier Agreements
Supplier agreements govern what you are buying, what it must do and what happens when it does not.
We help with:
- reviewing and negotiating supplier terms before you commit;
- drafting your own supplier terms so your suppliers sign up to yours;
- service levels, remedies and exit arrangements for critical suppliers; and
- data processing terms where the supplier handles personal data.
The points that matter are specification and acceptance, price certainty and how increases work, liability and whether the cap bears any relation to the loss you would actually suffer, what happens on delay or failure, and how you get out and get your data and materials back. Where a supplier is genuinely critical, we also look at continuity.
Our Approach
Legal advice that makes running and growing your business easier.
We start with your business, not the law.
Before we open a document, we want to understand what you are trying to do commercially. The legal answer is only useful if it serves that.
We get to the point.
You get a clear view of what matters and what does not, in plain English, with the real risks separated from the noise.
We give you an answer.
Not a menu of options and a shrug. We tell you what we would do, why, and where there is a genuine judgment call for you to make.
We stay available.
Whether you work with us on a single project or on a subscription, we are here for the follow-up question. We would always rather you asked.
Ways of working together
Fixed-fee projects
A single, defined piece of work for an agreed fixed fee, communicated before we engage. Reviewing a contract, drafting your terms, handling a negotiation.
No surprises and no hidden fees
Flagship Subscription
Ares Access
Ongoing support on a fixed monthly subscription, for businesses that need commercial legal input regularly rather than as the occasional one-off.
- Dedicated lawyer
- Fixed monthly fees
- Commercial advice on demand
From £500 plus VAT per month
Legal Health Check
Fixed fee of £2,000 plus VAT
Any questions?
Phone: 02382 420035
