Contract Drafting and Negotiation

Every business relationship of consequence is governed by a contract. Vendor agreements. Client service agreements. Partnership arrangements. Employment contracts. Licensing agreements. NDAs. Lease agreements. Each one is a commitment, and each one creates risk if it’s drafted poorly, reviewed superficially, or signed without understanding what it actually says.

The problem with most contract work isn’t that businesses skip it entirely. It’s that they underinvest in it. A template pulled from the internet, a quick review without real attention to the risk allocation, a signature because the other side said the terms were “standard”, these are how businesses end up bound to provisions they didn’t understand and unable to enforce provisions they thought they had.

Victoria approaches contract work the way a CLO approaches it: with attention to the provisions that actually matter (and they’re not always the ones that look most important), a clear sense of what the business needs to protect, and an understanding of how these agreements play out when the relationship goes wrong. She has reviewed and negotiated thousands of contracts across industries, for large companies, against sophisticated counterparties, and under the pressure of transactions where the stakes were very high.

For Georgia businesses, Victoria handles contract drafting and negotiation across commercial relationships: vendor and supplier agreements, client contracts, NDAs and confidentiality agreements, independent contractor agreements, commercial leases, licensing arrangements, and the other agreements that govern day-to-day operations. For businesses that enter contracts frequently, she also helps develop standard form templates and internal review processes that scale without requiring outside counsel involvement on every document.