SES agreement review checklist

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Overview

This article explains how clients and vendors should review SES agreements, including command and control, staffing, fees, deliverables, IP, confidentiality and compliance.

Key points

• SES agreements should avoid unclear command-and-control arrangements
• Engineer assignment, replacement and attendance rules should be operationally realistic
• Fees, expenses and work location should be clear
• Deliverables, IP and confidentiality should be reviewed even in staffing-like arrangements

Practical perspective

In practice, this topic should be reviewed together with the transaction structure, internal approval flow, counterparty relationship, business priority and risk tolerance. Generative AI can support initial organization, comparison and drafting, but attorneys or the legal team should remain responsible for final legal judgment.