In our LinkedIn-group, an interesting ‘discussion’ has started: identifying websites which offer free model contracts.
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The links added so far:
International Trade Centre (ITC, a joint agency of the United Nations and WTO, for which we have been developing a training programme on cross-border contracting):
http://www.intracen.org/exporters/contract-templates/
Mainstream general commercial model contracts:
- Sale of goods contract (short form and long form)
- Long-term supply of goods agreement
- Manufacturing agreement
- Distribution agreement
- Commercial agency agreement
- Supply of services agreement
- Alliance / collaboration agreement
- Joint venture (corporate) agreement
UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) – ‘Lambert toolkit’
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/lambert (overview)
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/whyuse/research/lambert/lambert-resources.htm (small contract types)
- Research & development agreements
- Collaboration agreements
- Consortium agreement
- Consultancy agreement
- Materials transfer agreement
- Confidentiality agreement
- Patent assignment deed
- Equipment loan agreement
Free downloads(generic website)
http://freepdfdb.com/pdf/supply-of-goods-agreement-template (PDFs)
http://freepdfdb.com/doc/supply-of-goods-agreement-template (Word-docs)
Various sample commercial contracts
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
http://nvca.org/resources/model-legal-documents/
Model venture capital (and private equity) financing documents:
- Term Sheet
- Stock Purchase Agreement
- Certificate Of Incorporation
- Investor Rights Agreement
- Voting Agreement
- Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement
- Management Rights Letter
- Indemnification Agreement
- Model Legal Opinion
Australian and New Zealand governments’ standard forms (SourceIT)
http://www.finance.gov.au/policy-guides-procurement/sourceit-model-contracts/
http://www.business.govt.nz/procurement/for-agencies/government-model-contracts
IT (hardware and maintenance) contracts
UK Clinical Research Collaboration
http://www.ukcrc.org/regulationgovernance/modelagreements/
Pharma research (and clinical trial) agreements
SEC-filed ‘material contracts’. Three sources, presumably pointing at (essentially) the same contracts:
http://www.lawinsider.com/
http://www.onecle.com/
http://corporate.findlaw.com/contracts
Numerous types of contracts, mainly M&A and finance related (not model contracts but only actual use-cases)
Logic-Oil
Oil & Gas industry Contracts.