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When a contract affects revenue, customer relationships, intellectual property, data, or long-term obligations, small drafting choices can have outsized business consequences. As a New York commercial contract lawyer, we help SaaS, AI, technology, creative, and growth-focused companies draft, review, and negotiate agreements with less friction and clearer risk allocation. At Uncommon Counsel, our goal is practical: understand what the deal needs to accomplish, identify the terms that matter most, and help your team move forward without turning every negotiation into a legal obstacle.
We support New York companies from our New York City office and work with founders, business teams, in-house legal departments, and established organizations that need focused commercial support. Our work is built around modern business relationships, including software, services, vendors, licensing, data use, strategic partnerships, and recurring contract workflows.
Commercial contracts are not simply legal documents. These contracts define how a business gets paid, what each side must deliver, who owns the work product, how data may be used, what happens if something goes wrong, and how either side can exit the relationship. We help teams translate those business expectations into agreements that are clear enough to use in practice.
Our broader commercial contract services include drafting, reviewing, redlining, and negotiating agreements across the contract lifecycle. We regularly help with master services agreements, statements of work, SaaS and software agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, consulting agreements, licensing arrangements, nondisclosure agreements, partnership terms, subscription agreements, and customer-facing commercial terms.
For a New York software company, that might mean negotiating an enterprise customer MSA where the business wants a workable liability cap, clear payment mechanics, defined service commitments, and reasonable security obligations. For a digital agency, it might mean tightening scope, approval, intellectual property, and change-order language before a large campaign begins. The right contract should reflect how the relationship actually operates.
We focus first on the terms that can materially affect the business. Payment structure, renewal mechanics, termination rights, scope, acceptance standards, warranties, indemnification, limitation of liability, confidentiality, insurance, governing law, dispute procedures, and intellectual property rights all deserve attention when relevant to the deal.
Technology and data-driven contracts often require another layer of review. A SaaS or AI agreement may involve customer data rights, security requirements, data processing obligations, model training restrictions, output rights, subprocessors, service levels, and third-party technology. When those issues overlap with privacy, we can coordinate the contract work with our data privacy counsel so the promises in the agreement match the company’s actual practices. When ownership or licensing is central, our intellectual property work can help clarify what is owned, what is licensed, and what rights survive the relationship.
For AI-enabled products and vendors, contract terms may also need to address acceptable use, data inputs, model outputs, confidentiality, infringement risk, performance disclaimers, and responsibility for downstream decisions. Our AI law work helps us approach those negotiations with the business and technology context in view.
The cost of commercial contract legal support depends on the scope and complexity of the work. A short agreement with a narrow business purpose is different from a multi-document technology transaction involving an MSA, statement of work, data processing addendum, security terms, and negotiated exhibits. The number of counterparties, negotiation rounds, internal stakeholders, and specialized issues can also affect the work involved.
We focus on making the legal process proportionate to the business need. Not every clause deserves the same amount of time, and not every negotiation needs to become a prolonged legal exercise. Our role is to help you understand where the meaningful exposure sits, where a practical compromise may work, and where the business should hold its position.
For companies with steady contract volume, project-by-project support is not always the most efficient model. Our fractional general counsel and outsourced legal services can provide ongoing commercial support for teams that need regular contract review, negotiation, template development, and day-to-day legal guidance without adding full-time in-house headcount.
We built Uncommon Counsel for businesses that want experienced legal judgment without unnecessary layers. Our commercial work is focused on the agreements that modern companies rely on to sell, buy, build, license, partner, and scale. We understand that legal advice has to work inside real sales cycles, procurement processes, product decisions, and operating constraints.
Our work centers on commercial agreements, technology transactions, intellectual property, data privacy, and adjacent AI issues. That focus matters because these subjects often appear in the same contract. A customer agreement may raise ownership and licensing questions. A vendor deal may include a DPA and a security exhibit. A software contract may need to address AI functionality or rights to use data. We can spot those intersections without treating each issue as a disconnected legal project.
Our founder, Anjali Sareen, is licensed in New York, California, and Florida and holds CIPP/US and CIPP/E privacy credentials. That combination supports contract work for companies operating across jurisdictions and dealing with privacy-heavy commercial relationships.
New York is a major center for technology, finance, media, advertising, professional services, and fast-growing startups. We work with businesses that need contracts to move at the same pace as their commercial teams. Our New York business counsel work also gives clients a practical route for legal issues that sit next to the contract itself, including broader business strategy and ongoing operational questions.
At the same time, many New York companies sell nationally or globally, use distributed vendors, and negotiate with counterparties in multiple jurisdictions. We approach the agreement as part of that wider operating reality rather than limiting the analysis to a single clause or transaction.
We aim to reduce legal guesswork. That means explaining risk in plain English, distinguishing material issues from lower-priority points, and giving business teams usable options. Sometimes the right answer is to push back. Sometimes it is to narrow a clause, add a practical safeguard, or accept a manageable risk because the deal value supports it. Our job is to help you make that decision with clarity.
We support companies in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and across New York State. Some clients need help with a single high-value agreement. Others need ongoing support across customer contracts, vendor deals, licensing, privacy terms, and internal commercial workflows.
Whether your team is negotiating its first enterprise SaaS agreement, updating a contract stack that no longer fits the business, or managing a steady flow of sophisticated transactions, we can provide focused legal support that keeps the commercial objective in view.
A good commercial agreement should make the business relationship clearer, not harder to operate. If your company needs help drafting, reviewing, or negotiating a contract in New York, we can help you identify the important issues, protect what matters, and keep the deal moving.
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