Commercial Agreements

Negotiate deals that support growth and protect your position.

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Your business is held together by agreements: how you sell, buy, partner, and share risk. If those contracts are unclear or negotiated from scratch every time they can slow sales, create disputes, or block future deals. Altum helps you draft and negotiate commercial agreements that are robust, clear, and tailored to your model so you can close good business faster and keep key relationships strong.

Many companies start with borrowed templates or whatever counterparties send over. Terms are edited ad hoc. Over time, this creates a patchwork of agreements with inconsistent pricing, SLAs, data rights, IP treatment, liability caps, renewal terms, and termination rights. Sales cycles drag as each new customer negotiates from a different baseline. Partners push for terms that quietly give away leverage or limit your roadmap. Renewals and expansions bring up surprises buried in older deals.

Altum brings in-depth expertise in commercial contracting. We help you create clear, tailored agreement frameworks and negotiate individual deals so the paper matches your business model, risk tolerance, and long-term plans.

What We Do:

  • Draft and refine core customer-facing agreements, including SaaS agreements, terms of service, order forms, statements of work, and professional services agreements, tailored to your product and go-to-market.
  • Support negotiations on high-impact customer and partner deals, focusing on data use and rights, IP ownership and licenses, SLAs, security commitments, liability, indemnity, and termination.
  • Structure and negotiate strategic commercial relationships such as joint ventures, reseller and channel agreements, OEM and white-label deals, and co-development or partnership agreements.
  • Review and negotiate key vendor and infrastructure contracts to align service levels, data handling, and liability with your promises to customers and regulators.
  • Develop practical playbooks and fallback positions so your team knows where to hold the line and where to offer reasonable variations.
  • Align commercial terms with your product roadmap, pricing model, regulatory posture, and anticipated financings or exits, so today’s deals don’t box you in tomorrow.

Benefits:

  • You have standard agreements that reflect how your product and business actually work, instead of a loose collection of one-off edits.
  • Sales and BD teams move faster because they know your baseline positions.
  • Key positions on IP, data, security, liability, and termination are consistent across customers and partners, reducing disputes and unpleasant surprises at renewal or exit.
  • Strategic deals are structured thoughtfully from the start, so contracts support the economics and relationship you actually want.
  • Your contracts protect your core interests while setting fair expectations, helping you build durable commercial relationships.
  • Investors and acquirers see a coherent commercial posture rather than a stack of idiosyncratic agreements.