COMMERCIAL CONTRACT REVIEW FOR GROWING BUSINESSES
Contracts that sit in a queue get signed.
Senior contract support for established businesses that don’t have a lawyer down the corridor. We review, redline and negotiate your supplier, customer and partner agreements, for a fee agreed before we start.
Master services agreements x Saas subscriptions x Supply & distribution x NDAs x Data protection
One reviewer.
The same senior person on every file, who gets to know your business, your risk appetite and your counterparties.
Fixed fee.
A scope, a price and a return date before we start. No hourly meter, no surprise invoice.
Your
playbook.
Reviewed against your own positions, or a sensible commercial baseline we build with you if you don’t have one yet.
01 / SERVICES
Every contract that lands on your desk.
1.1
Review & redline
MSAs, services, supply, licensing, SaaS and distribution agreements, marked up with the reasoning written down.
1.2
Negotiation Support
Issues lists, fallback positions and, if you want it, a seat on the call with the other side.
1.3
NDA & DPA triage
High-volume agreements cleared quickly, with anything unusual flagged rather than waved through.
1.3
Playbooks & templates
Standard terms, clause positions and escalation rules written down, so your managers can handle the routine ones themselves.
1.3
Contract health checks
Your live portfolio checked for renewals, notice windows, liability exposure and missing paperwork.
1.5
Embedded support
Regular time each month working alongside your finance, ops and sales leads, in your own systems.
02 / HOW IT WORKS
Four steps. No surprises on the invoice.
01
Send it over
​Email the contract with a line on the deal, the deadline and anything that worries you.
03
Reviewed to your business
Measured against your playbook, and the commercial reality of the deal.
02
Fixed fee agreed
​Scope, price and return date confirmed before any work starts. [Turnaround, e.g. X working days]
04
Redline & summary back
Tracked changes plus a short note your stakeholders will actually read.
03 / WHERE WE FIT
Law firm judgment. Without the law firm meter.
Somewhere between a law firm’s hourly rate, a template service’s one-size-fits-all review and an AI tool nobody stands behind.
04 / WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Pick the shape that fits your workload.
Per contract
From £1,000 + VAT
A fixed fee for a single agreement, quoted once we’ve seen it. Good for the occasional big one.
Monthly Retainer
From £250 + VAT
A set allowance of reviews each month, priority turnaround and a reviewer who learns your book.
Embedded Days
From £2,500 + VAT
Regular days with your team for a busy quarter, a big supplier review or a major deal.
05 / WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
Catherine Hyde, Founder
Catherine is a solicitor with fifteen years’ experience in commercial disputes. She has spent that time on the other end of the contracts businesses sign: the supplier who won’t deliver, the cap that doesn’t cover the loss, the clause nobody read until it mattered. Alongside disputes she has handled IP and licensing work, including assignments, warranties and indemnities, and she is a CMC-accredited civil and commercial mediator.
She founded HooperHyde to provide senior, fixed-fee contract support for established businesses that have outgrown templates but don’t want a law firm’s meter running.
What we are and what we aren't.
HooperHyde is a legal consultancy. We are not a law firm and are not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
If a matter needs a regulated firm, such as litigation or other reserved legal work, we’ll say so early and help you brief one.
Got a contract sitting on your desk?
Send it to us with your deadline. You’ll have a fixed quote back within one working day.