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Revenue-stage companies negotiate price and scope carefully, then accept the risk-allocation clauses without discussion. Those clauses decide what the agreement is worth when something goes wrong.
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The weeks between a disagreement becoming serious and a case being filed shape what follows. Preservation, assessment and a defined commercial goal do more work than an early filing.
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There is a stage where project-based legal work stops fitting and an internal hire is still premature. Recognising it is mostly a matter of counting.
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Indemnity provisions are among the most consequential terms in a commercial agreement and among the least read. Six questions get most of the way to understanding one.
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Classification decisions are made once, early, and then inherited. The work changes; the label does not. A periodic review is inexpensive relative to what it prevents.
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Diligence delays are rarely caused by problems. They are caused by records that exist somewhere but have never been assembled — and that is fixable in advance.
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