A consultancy agreement is a contract between a consultant and a client, in which the consultant agrees to provide services to the client. The agreement should specify the nature of the services to be provided, the terms of payment, and the duration of the agreement.
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Use our legal assistantThis template is to be used the next time your company needs to set out terms with an individual (i.e. not to be used for agreements involving a personal service company as defined within IR35). It sets out the terms on which a contractor provides services to a client company, and is perfect for freelance software developers, marketing consultants, designers, PR/HR/recruitment consultants.
This document is typically used in the commercial property development sector to appoint an architect, engineer, employer's agent, project manager, quantity surveyor or other designer or construction professional.
A consultancy agreement between a company and a consultant. The client shall engage the consultant and the consultant shall provide the services on the terms of this agreement.This consultancy agreement can be used when hiring a contractor or consultant. It contains the usual terms around term, termination, payment and fees, expenses, confidential information and data protection. The agreement also handles intellectual property to ensure that IP of the work is transferred to the company paying for the consultant, how notices should be provided and whether the contract can be varied.
Use this agreement when an individual researcher undertakes to provide consultancy services to a Sponsor. The researcher assigns IP in the work they do as a consultant to the Sponsor in return for payments made by the Sponsor.
Note: In order to be assign those rights, the researcher must own them, which normally means they must not have developed them during the course of their employment by the university; if they have been developed in the course of his employment, those rights will usually belong to the university.
