About Commercial Law
As a commercial lawyer, you have to cover a lot of ground. Today, you might be drawing up agreements for suppliers. Tomorrow, you might be dealing with a query on intellectual property. When you're wearing so many hats, sometimes the real challenge is simply knowing where to start. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Commercial is the only place you need to look. You'll find clear, concise practice notes that not only explain the legal principles, but include practical tips on how to apply them in real life - with direct links to the relevant legislation, case law, commentary, forms and precedents you'll need. And because an increasing number of our forms and precedents are being automated, with LexisSmart, you can draft a contract or generate a whole suite of documents just by filling in one questionnaire. Plus, you'll get regular news updates and analysis, to help you keep an eye on what's happening in the law and the market.
Contracts
Helping you deliver watertight contracts. We cover the contract lifecycle from negotiation to termination. Providing guidance and precedents to assist with all aspects of contract management.
Contract clause bank
Offering a wealth of practical drafting and negotiating checklists, precedent contract clauses and practice notes to help you confidently negotiate, draft and execute robust commercial agreements.
Supplier management
Our supplier management tools and guidance help you build resilient supply chains. Assisting with supplier selection, the procurement of goods and services, sustainability, compliance and more.
Key developments
Whether you have a broad or niche commercial practice, staying on top of ongoing developments is a challenge. Our weekly highlights and topic trackers keep you up to date with all the latest developments.
Topics We Cover
Latest Commercial News
Law360, London: A former Playtech employee and the Latvian company he now works for succeeded in throwing out the gambling company's accusations of...
HMRC and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) have published the outcome of their joint consultation on promoting electronic invoicing across...
Dispute Resolution analysis: In this significant case concerning legal professional privilege and litigation conduct, the High Court addressed the...
This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: news that the Competition and Markets Authority has published its strategy for 2026–2029...
Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal overturned the High Court’s decision permitting Playtech to serve trade secrets and copyright...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
Digital advertising channels—introductionThis Practice Note introduces common digital advertising and marketing channels, including website...
How to run a prize promotionPrize promotions are run for various reasons, such as generating brand awareness, to publicise new products or to gain new...
Exclusion and limitation of liabilityThis Practice Note considers exclusion and limitation of liability in business-to-business (B2B) contracts. It...
Doing business in: MexicoUpdated in October 2025IntroductionThe growth Mexico offers from a business, cultural and social perspective is in constant...
Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements—scopeThis Practice Note considers the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements which applies to...
Latest Commercial Precedents
Interim outsourcing agreementThis Agreement is made on [insert date] (the Commencement Date) between the following parties (each a party and together...
Board minutes approving a proposed commercial agreementCOMPANY NUMBER:[ insert company number][insert company name] [LIMITED OR PLC]Minutes of a...
Website privacy policyFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the Data (Use and...
Terms and conditions for the purchase of goods and services—business to business—pro-customer1Definitions and interpretation1.1In these Conditions the...
Sub-contract agreementThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Insert name of party] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under number...
Latest Commercial Q&As
Featured Commercial content
Fiduciary Duties
Fiduciary DutiesWho is a fiduciary?There is no comprehensive list of the relationships which give rise to the existence of fiduciary duties under...
Repudiation of contract
RepudiationThis Practice Note concerns repudiation and sets out what a repudiatory breach of contract means. It explains how a repudiatory breach goes...
If a contract’s actual date and effective date are different, is the effective date enforceable?
Agent and principal relationships with third parties
Agent and principal relationships with third partiesThis Practice Note deals with the relationships arising between principals, agents and third...
Mistake in contract law
Mistake in contract lawThis Practice Note considers the legal concept of mistake in contract law. It examines common mistake, mutual mistake,...
Do the terms ‘Schedule’, ‘Appendix’, ‘Annex’ or similar have any particular meaning in commercial contracts? What should I consider if using them?
Contracts required to be in writing
Contracts required to be in writingThis Practice Note considers the specific situations where a contract is required by law to be in writing:...
Subcontracting
SubcontractingThis Practice Note examines the following legal and practical matters in relation to entering into a subcontract or when granting...
Waiver and release
Waiver and releaseDefining waiverIn the law of contract, the term ‘waiver’ may have different meanings but is most commonly used to denote the...
Nature and types of agency
Nature and types of agencyThis Practice Note is an introduction to agency. It describes the essentials of the agency relationship between the...
Termination and expiry of contracts
Termination and expiry of contractsThis Practice Note provides an overview of contract expiry and of the different causes of termination and ways to...
Joint, several, and joint and several liability
Joint, several, and joint and several liabilityContractWhere a contract is made by two or more parties it may contain a promise or obligation made by...
What date should be put on a contract where the parties have not signed the contract contemporaneously? Is the date stated as the 'commencement date' in the contract or is it when the last of the parties signs/seals the contract?
Agreements to agree
Agreements to agreeThis Practice Note considers agreements to agree, and why an agreement to agree certain contractual terms at a future date has...
What is the significance of the words ‘warrants’ and ‘undertakes’ in a contractual obligation?
Which case law supports that an offer cannot be withdrawn after it has been accepted?
Contract variation
Contract variationThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the variation of contracts and deeds. It explains how a...
Electronic signatures
Electronic signaturesAn electronic signature is the electronic equivalent of a handwritten signature and links a person to the contents of an...
Associated legal terms
Consumer Prices Index (Commercial)
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the official measure of inflation of consumer prices in the UK.
Distance contract
A ‘distance contract’ is a contract concluded between a trader and a consumer under an organised distance sales or service-provision scheme without the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer with the exclusive use of one or more means of distance communication up to and including the time at which the contract is concluded.
Escrow agreement
In the context of information technology, escrow means depositing the source code of software with a third party custodian on terms that allow the code to be released if specified events (such as, for example, insolvency) take place.
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