Commercial law services

You may need a multi-year supply agreement or master service agreement for a key consumable or input. Crest’s team has the experience can help you ensure (among other things) your pricing mechanism is balanced and adjusted to your risk profile, your ability to make claims under warranty is clear and transition in and out is provided for, as well as allocating risk for delivery and defects.

Your business may require or provide services in multiple locations, including high-risk support or certain installation work. Crest’s team has the experience can assist you to manage your risk in services contracts, and of course ensure you are aware of the key rights and other legal ‘levers’ you have available.

A new collaborative project often begins with a lot of good will, which is the best time to formally establish the contractual relationship of the venture parties. Whether your structures that of subcontracting, joint venture or partnership, Crest’s team has the experience can assist you to formalise an appropriate legal structure. Please note, where needed, we would work in tandem with your tax adviser.

You may need legal support to bid for new work in a tender process. Crest’s team has extensive experience with legal review of tender contracts, focusing on practical, relevant risks.

Entry and exit of investment has many associated legal considerations, depending on the investment vehicle, not least whether you will be buying into a vehicle exposed to dilution of your rights or exiting a vehicle that has ‘tag along’ rights that mean other shareholders can require their parcels to be offered too. Crest’s team has the experience to guide you on key considerations and review or draft documentation to protect your position.

Here you may need to understand your suite of rights, obligations, triggers and ability to novate or restructure. Crest’s team has the experience to identify and summarize what you are looking at from a number of different perspectives depending on your focus and intentions.

Investment may come via an intermediary who seeks a success fee. Which investors and what counts as an introduction are key topics in this area where ‘every word counts’. Crest’s team has major experience negotiating individual intermediary agreements with success fees of up to DKK54m each, so we can guide on the ‘pain points’ with authority.

Crest’s team has experience with numerous corporate and formal processes, meaning we can guide you on these processes as needed for your corporate actions.

Crest’s team has broad and detailed experience in commercial law from many context so is well placed to advise you, including on ‘out of the box’ challenges.