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
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published its updated guidance on data protection by design and by default alongside the commencement...
This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: analysis of key 2025 developments relating to data protection and confidential...
The Advertising Association has published a Best Practice Guide for the Responsible Use of Generative AI in Advertising, developed under the...
The Cabinet Office has published guidance on contract payment information as part of the ‘Manage’ phase guidance suite under the Procurement Act 2023....
Two complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) concerning environmental claims made on the advertisers’ websites for baby...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
Execution formalities—unincorporated charitiesThis Practice Note provides practical guidance on the execution of documents by unincorporated...
Incoterms® 2020 Rules—FOB Free on boardThis Practice Note comprises the guidance note to the FOB Free on board Incoterm in the Incoterms® 2020 rules,...
Mobile app development and data protectionFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 19 June 2025, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent, becoming the Data...
Contracts for the sale and supply of goods—business to businessThis Practice Note provides an overview of the key legislation and regulation impacting...
On demand guarantees and bondsThis Practice Note deals with on demand guarantees and bonds. (It does not deal with conditional guarantees and bonds...
Latest Commercial Precedents
Outsourcing agreement—long form employment (TUPE) provisions1Definitions1.1In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, capitalised terms...
Execution clause (Scotland)—ordinary execution by a corporate member signing on behalf of a limited liability partnershipSubscribed for and on behalf...
Execution clause (Scotland)—ordinary execution by an individual general partner or an authorised signatory for a limited partnershipSubscribed by...
Execution clause (Scotland)—self-proving execution by corporate director(s) or secretary signing on behalf of a companyOption 1—self-proving execution...
Execution clause (Scotland)—self-proving execution by an individual general partner or an authorised signatory for a limited partnershipSubscribed by...
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
Bill of exchange
A bill of exchange is an unconditional order in writing requiring the person to whom it is addressed to pay a sum certain to a specified person or to the bearer.
Condition
A condition is a term of the contract that is so significant that it goes to the heart of the transaction—so it is a major term of the agreement.
PAAS
The service provider will provide the operating system, and the database software sitting on top of it, as well as a web server. The customer will provide their own applications. The customer will, once again, be charged on the basis of resource usage. The service provider is responsible for ensuring that the operating system and other parts of the platform are correctly licensed (and the license fees, if any, will be covered by the usage charge). The customer is responsible for ensuring correct licensing for the application it chooses to use.
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