Contract Review Solicitor in London
A contract review solicitor reads a contract before you sign it, identifies the clauses that create risk or are unlikely to be enforceable, and tells you in plain English what to change.
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At Adam Bernard Solicitors, our Analyse Your Contract service gives business owners, employees and landlords a clear written review, usually on a fixed fee.
Whether you have received a supplier’s standard terms, an employment contract, a shareholder agreement or a lease of equipment, a short review now can prevent an expensive dispute later.
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When Should You Use a Contract Review Solicitor?
You should have a contract reviewed whenever it commits you to significant money, a long term, personal guarantees, restrictions on future work or the transfer of valuable intellectual property. Common triggers include:
- Signinga supplier’s or customer’s standard terms for the first
- Beingoffered a senior role, a directors’ service agreement or a contract with non-compete restrictions.
- Investingin, or being asked to sign, a shareholder agreement.
- Enteringa franchise agreement or distribution agreement.
- Signinga software or SaaS agreement that your operations will depend
What Our Contract Review Covers
Our review checks five areas: enforceability, risk allocation, money, exit and compliance.
- Enforceability – are the parties correctly identified, are terms certain and is the contract properly executed?
- Liability and indemnities– are you accepting uncapped liability or indemnities that go beyond your insurance? In business contracts, exclusion clauses must pass the reasonableness test in the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
- Payment and price– payment dates, price increases, set-off rights and late payment interest under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
- Term and termination – automatic renewals, minimum terms, notice periods and termination
- Compliance– data protection, consumer law, employment law and sector-specific
Red Flags We Look For
The clauses that most often cause problems are the ones people skim: auto-renewal, unlimited indemnities, one-sided termination rights and broad restrictive covenants. Our solicitors routinely flag:
- Auto-renewalclauses that lock you in unless you give notice in a narrow
- Unilateralvariation clauses that let the other party change prices or terms at
- Personalguarantees hidden in company
- Intellectualproperty assignments wider than the work you are being paid
- Restrictivecovenants that may be unenforceable as a restraint of trade, or too narrow to protect you.
- Confidentiality clauses that attempt to prevent disclosures the law protects. For example,since 1 October 2025 an NDA cannot stop a victim of crime reporting it to the police or seeking legal advice, as explained in government guidance on the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.
Consumer Contracts and Unfair Terms
If you are a business selling to consumers, any term that is unfair or not transparent is not binding on the consumer under Part 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015.The Consumer Rights Act 2015 includes a grey list of terms that may be regarded as unfair. Reviewing consumer terms before launch protects your business from unenforceable clauses and enforcement action.
How the Analyse Your Contract Service Works
- Sendus the contract and tell us what matters most to
- Freeconsultation to confirm scope and agree a fixed
- Written review highlighting each risk, rated by severity, with suggested replacement.
- Optional follow up: we can negotiate the changes with the other party or redraft the document through our contract redrafting service.
Contract Review vs Contract Redrafting
A contract review tells you what is wrong; a redraft fixes it. If the contract is the other party’s document, a review with negotiation points is usually the right choice. If the contract is your own outdated template, a redraft is often more cost-effective.
What You Receive From a Contract Review
At the end of a contract review you receive a written report that ranks every issue by risk, explains it in plain English and gives you replacement wording you can send straight to the other side. A typical report includes:
- Anexecutive summary – the three to five points that matter most
- Aclause-by-clause table – each risk rated high, medium or low, with the
- Suggestedamendments – drafted wording, not just comments, so negotiation is
- Missing protections– clauses that should be in the contract but are not, such as a liability cap, a change control process or a data protection schedule.
- Anegotiation strategy – which points are worth fighting for and which are market
Common Contracts We Review
We regularly review supplier terms, customer framework agreements, NDAs, data processing agreements, IT services agreements, employment offers and residential tenancy agreements. Whatever the document, the aim is the same: you sign knowing exactly what you are agreeing to.
Why Choose Adam Bernard Solicitors?
- SRA-regulatedsolicitors with 15 years’ experience and more than 15,000 clients
- Fixed-feepricing agreed before work
- Offices inHigh Holborn and Upton Park, plus video
- Plain-Englishadvice focused on commercial
Explore all our commercial contract services or call 0207 100 2525 (24/7) or book a free consultation to discuss your contract.
This page is for information only and does not constitute legal advice.
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