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Sukhi Hansra October 12, 2026
If your business signs contracts with customers, suppliers, or service providers, each one needs to say what you think it says. A commercial contract lawyer's job is to confirm that before you are bound by it. We draft and review commercial contracts for businesses in Toronto and across Ontario. The work ranges from a single supplier agreement to the master service agreement your whole client base runs on.
We focus on the terms that decide your real exposure, meaning liability, scope, exclusivity, payment, and how either side can end the relationship. We read every contract against how your business actually operates, because a clause that is harmless for one business can be expensive for another.
We have drafted and negotiated commercial contracts for businesses in many different industries, from design firms and healthcare services to facilities management and data services. That range means we can often bring what we have seen work in one industry to the contract in front of you.
Our business contract lawyers advise on a wide range of commercial arrangements. We deliver robust contracts that manage risk and allow your organization to operate effectively and reach its strategic goals.
The technical expertise that our business contract lawyers have in contract drafting and review is complemented by an ability to provide agile, creative and prompt solutions to your most demanding commercial law issues. Our reputation as commercial lawyers in Toronto means we are regularly sought out to handle the more complex cases.
Every business depends on commercial contracts, from small business enterprises to large national corporations. Our commercial lawyers in Toronto will make sure your interests are always protected, while giving practical and reasonable advice. We take the time to learn about your business, and what you’re trying to achieve.
Working with us, you will find we take a collegiate approach throughout the firm, drawing on relevant expertise wherever necessary. This means you are always backed up by significant legal firepower. For instance, we work closely with our commercial litigation partners, meaning that should an issue become litigious, you will have seamless support.
Because we routinely draft and negotiate commercial contracts, we are extremely well positioned to analyze and apply existing contract terms. And as we do this across so many sectors, our business contract lawyers can apply lessons learned from complex contracts in one sector to relevant issues you face in your own.
If you are a small business owner who has been handed a contract to sign, have it reviewed before you sign it. A contract review by a lawyer at that stage is usually far less expensive than dealing with the clause after something has gone wrong. At that point the contract is still negotiable, and nothing has cost you money yet. We read the contract against how your business really works and flag the clauses that shift risk onto you. We then tell you which ones are worth pushing back on and which ones are normal for your industry.
Not every issue in a contract is worth the legal time it would take to fix, and we will tell you when that is the case. Where a clause is unlikely to matter, or would cost more to negotiate than it could realistically cost you, we say so and let you decide. Where the scope is clear, a contract review can often be done for a flat fee. Either way, every review starts with a written quote under our no surprise billing policy.
Our business contract lawyers regularly step in and act as our clients’ double check. We ensure that you are readily prepared to manage the risks and obligations of your business arrangement, and help prepare you to better negotiate your position.
Some of the key areas that we arise our clients of are:
We find out what your bargaining position is and respond accordingly. A good contract takes into consideration future obligations and provides for the changing nature of business.
Consumer contracts are contracts that your business will be presenting to consumers or the public. These types of contracts need to be both easy to read and enforce.
At Hansra Law, our commercial lawyers have a particular expertise in drafting consumer contracts a thoughtful and strategic way, ensuring that you are always comfortable with the business arrangement you are interring into.
we understand that our clients’ day-to-day business contracts are every bit as important as its larger contracts. Some of the general business contracts that our business contract lawyers regularly work on include:
Whether you are manufacturing a new product or negotiating the international supply of goods and services, our commercial lawyers in Toronto are always prepared to help you add value to our clients’ transactions. With broad expertise across several industries, we leverage our experience across the good and services market to ensure that our clients’ risks are well managed.
As a business and technology law firm, Hansra Law has the relevant expertise to provide you with strategic advice with regards to your technology company. Our business contract lawyers speak your language, whether negotiating software development arrangements or protecting their company’s valuable source code. Some technology contracts that we regularly advise on include:
A service agreement sets out what you will deliver, when you will be paid, and what happens when a customer says the work was not done properly. As service agreement lawyers, we draft the version you send to your own customers. We also review the version a larger customer asks you to sign, which is usually where the liability and payment terms need the most attention.
A supply agreement does the same job for a business that sells or buys goods. The terms that matter most are usually price changes over the term, minimum purchase commitments, and delivery and acceptance. The other key term is who carries the loss when a shipment is late or defective. If you are the smaller party, the supply agreement you are handed was written for the other side. A review by supply agreement lawyers is how you find the terms that are actually negotiable. If your service relationship is ongoing, the master service agreement below is usually the better structure.
A master service agreement, or MSA, is the framework contract for an ongoing service relationship. Instead of negotiating a fresh contract for every engagement, the parties agree once on the terms that never change, meaning payment, liability, confidentiality, intellectual property, insurance, and how disputes get resolved, and then each new piece of work is added by a short statement of work under the master terms. This means that the tenth project starts with a two-page schedule instead of a two-week negotiation, which is exactly why businesses that sell services repeatedly outgrow one-off contracts.
In our own practice, MSAs are one of the most common contracts we draft and negotiate, and they come from every direction: design firms, nursing and healthcare services, facilities management, data services, and consultants of every kind. The pattern repeats because the MSA follows the shape of the relationship rather than the industry. If your business delivers ongoing or repeated services to the same clients, an MSA is usually the right architecture, and the questions worth negotiating are the same ones every time: how liability is capped across many engagements rather than one, whether each statement of work can change the master terms or only add to them, who owns what gets created, and how either side exits a relationship that spans multiple active projects.
We draft MSAs for service providers who need one strong document to run their client base on, and we review the MSAs our clients are asked to sign, so the framework that governs years of work is one they actually understand. If the services are IT-specific, meaning managed services, monitoring, or support with service levels attached, that version has its own discipline and its own page.
We offer a FREE and confidential 30-minute initial telephone consultation to discuss what services we can provide to help reduce avoidable risks and liabilities in your business by implementing solid contracts. We’ll also advise you about the costs of those services – We use predetermined or flat fees for most of your Contract Drafting Services, so that you’ll have predictability when it comes to your legal expenses.
The appointment will give you a better understanding of your options and a clearer sense of how best to proceed based on your individual circumstances. As most businesses succeed by avoiding unnecessary legal risks, failing to act now could be fatal to the future of your business. So don’t delay.
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Reviewed by Sukhi Hansra, Business and Franchise Lawyer at Hansra Law.
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