70%
Risk agreed in advance
Most commercial disputes are not caused by bad faith. They are caused by wording that was accepted quickly — liability caps, termination rights, exclusivity, jurisdiction. The risk was signed, not discovered.
Corporate & Commercial Law · International Business Markets
Every important business decision
carries a price you have not calculated yet.
COVARIS LEGAL advises companies, founders and business owners before the signature — not after the dispute. One focused review shows you the legal and financial exposure hidden inside the decision you are about to make.
- 70%
- of commercial disputes trace back to clauses agreed before legal review
- 9%
- average share of contract value lost to poor contract management
- 18 mo
- typical duration of a cross-border commercial dispute
Step One · Identify
What do you think if we determine the size of the challenge you are facing?
Consider the last three commitments your company made. A supplier agreement. A partnership. An investment or expansion decision. In each case, ask yourself one calm question: did anyone map the legal and financial risk before the signature, or only after something went wrong?
9.2%
Value quietly lost
Studies of corporate contracting place the average leakage of contract value between 5% and 9.2%. On a 2,000,000 annual contract portfolio, that is 100,000–184,000 leaving the business every year without a single invoice.
3–5×
Cost after the fact
Resolving a dispute typically costs three to five times more than reviewing the same risk in advance — before counting management time, delay, and the partnership that no longer exists.
How much do you estimate the monthly losses from this problem? Most owners we speak with arrive at a number they had never written down before.
Step Two · Quantify
Put the problem into numbers you can verify yourself.
Take a mid-sized company signing 40 commercial agreements a year, with an average contract value of 250,000. Nothing here is dramatic. It is simply arithmetic.
01Annual contracted value$10,000,000
02Value leakage at 9% (industry average)− $900,000 / year
03One escalated dispute (fees, delay, management time)− $180,000 – $400,000
04Deals delayed by unresolved legal questions− 6 to 11 weeks
05Cost of one Executive Legal Risk Reviewa fraction of a single dispute
You do not need our numbers. Use your own contract volume and your own average value. Whatever figure appears, ask what it would mean over three years — and whether it is a figure you are comfortable leaving unexamined.
Step Three · One Solution
The Executive Legal Risk Review
We do not offer a menu. We offer one focused engagement: a single structured review that identifies the critical contractual, commercial and liability risks before you commit to an important business decision. Let us see how other clients in your field solved this challenge.
- 01
Confidential Position Briefing
A private 60-minute session with your decision-makers. We take the commercial intention, the counterparty, the timeline and the outcome you require.
- 02
Clause-Level Risk Mapping
Every operative provision is examined against liability, termination, exclusivity, IP, payment and jurisdiction exposure. Each finding is graded by financial consequence, not by legal curiosity.
- 03
Quantified Exposure Report
One document. Each risk stated in plain language, with its estimated financial impact, its probability, and the exact wording that removes or limits it.
- 04
Decision Session
We sit with you and answer one question: sign, renegotiate, or walk away — and what each of the three is worth.
Delivered within 10 working days. One review. One document. One clear decision.
Step Four · Proof
Results from companies in the same position you are in today.
Two engagements, described with the client's permission and without identifying details.
Industrial manufacturing · cross-border supply
$1.4M exposure removed
A five-year supply agreement carried an uncapped indemnity and a foreign jurisdiction clause. The review quantified worst-case exposure at $1.4M. Two renegotiated provisions closed it. The deal still signed — eleven days later.
Technology · founder partnership
62% of equity protected
Two founders were days from signing a partnership with a strategic investor. The review identified drag-along and reserved-matter terms that would have handed operational control at the next round. Redrafted before signature.
We had already agreed the commercial terms. The review found 840,000 of liability we had simply not seen. It changed two sentences and saved the year.
Calm, precise, and entirely without theatre. They told us what the risk was worth in money. That is the only language a board understands.
We now run no material agreement without the review. It has become the cheapest line in our budget.
Step Five · No Risk
What do you think if we offer you a full money-back guarantee?
If the Executive Legal Risk Review does not identify risk of greater financial value than its own fee, you pay nothing. The report remains yours.
- Fixed fee, agreed in writing before we begin. No hourly billing.
- Full refund if the identified exposure does not exceed the fee.
- Absolute confidentiality. Nothing leaves the engagement.
Begin with one confidential conversation.
Tell us the decision in front of you. We will tell you, without obligation, whether a review is warranted — and what it would cover.
Response within one business day · Strictly confidential · No obligation