General Terms and Conditions and Contracts
There is only one right time to use customized, liability-optimized contracts: from the very beginning.
Sebastian RiedlmairHarlander & Partner Attorneys „Vertragsrecht ist unsere Leidenschaft. Unsere Verträge nutzen alle zulässigen Möglichkeiten zur rechtlichen Optimierung.
Vor Gericht hat dies unseren Mandanten schon viel Geld erspart.“
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Fundamentals
- General Terms and Conditions
- General Terms and Conditions of Purchase
- Non-Disclosure Agreement
- Data Processing Agreement
Business Law
- License Agreement
- Maintenance Agreement
- Service Level Agreement
- Supply Agreement
- Franchise Agreement
Corporate Law
- FlexKapG Agreement
- GmbH Agreement
- OG Agreement
- KG Agreement
- GbR Agreement
- Cooperation Agreement
- Managing Director Agreement
Employment Law
- Works Agreement
- Employment Contract
- Company Car Agreement
- Remote Work Agreement
- Training Cost Reimbursement
- Non-Compete Clause
- Privacy Policy
Delay is Dangerous
New entrepreneurs, in particular, often fall prey to a tempting fallacy. They want to start without professionally drafted contracts and see how the business develops.
Those who act in this manner face the highest risk of error at the start of their company due to a lack of long-standing professional experience, and simultaneously have the weakest legal protection. Not a few end this experiment with lifelong debt.
Best-of Method
The “Best-of Method” is particularly popular. Experienced entrepreneurs, who are unfortunately legal laypersons, copy templates from across the internet and then insert all clauses into a new document. Voilà, done for free!
If only it were that simple. Anyone who has no idea what these legal terms mean should not attempt to craft the legal basis for all their transactions themselves. This invariably goes wrong (we have won several bets on this).
For example, one’s own liability can be reduced in different, mutually incompatible ways. Anyone who combines all clauses creates a legally invalid construct.
Worst of all: The Best-of Method is incredibly popular.
In all likelihood, even templates from financially strong competitors are not legal masterpieces, but catastrophic “best-of” copies.
Select Your Preferred Appointment Now:Free initial consultationGeneral Terms and Conditions
To secure a company’s business processes, General Terms and Conditions (GTC) are required. The absence of GTC massively increases the risk of every single business transaction.
Not to be forgotten: Forms, delivery notes, order confirmations, or invoices can also optimize (or jeopardize) your business processes from a legal perspective and should therefore be reviewed.
General Terms and Conditions of Purchase
Anyone who regularly commissions subcontractors to provide services or purchases goods from business partners should also have General Terms and Conditions of Purchase (GTC of Purchase).
Custom Contracts
Some business processes are so complex that General Terms and Conditions are unsuitable for their legal protection. In such cases, we draft more detailed and in-depth contractual agreements.
Training
To return to the beginning: General Terms and Conditions and contracts only make sense if their content is understood and can therefore be adhered to. For this purpose, we offer in-house training for managing directors, sales, and service employees.
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