Joint-venture agreements
Agree what two businesses contribute and take from a project they run together.
Set out how two businesses work together on a venture.
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Key features
A stated purpose
The venture is limited to the purpose you write in, with neither participant gaining a claim on the other's wider business.
A contract or a new entity
A section where you write whether the venture is a contract between the participants or runs through a company you form, with the ownership percentages if so.
Contributions and cost sharing
Blanks for what each participant brings, money, property, people or rights, and the shares in which profit, loss and costs are divided.
Who owns what the venture creates
A section for who owns anything made for the venture, and the use each participant is given of it.
Winding up
How assets are used when the venture ends: debts first, then contributions, then the remainder, with a line for assets that cannot be divided.
About this document
A joint venture agreement records how two parties will work together on a defined project: what the venture is for, what each puts in, how profit, loss and cost are shared and how it ends. Each stays a separate business outside the venture.
This blank form lets you say whether the venture runs as a contract between the two or through a new entity. You complete the blanks by hand and both participants sign.
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Useful when
- Two businesses will combine skills or resources on a single project
- You want to keep the project separate from each business's other work
- You need to record who owns what is created during the venture
Commonly used by
- Businesses bidding on a project together
- Developers and builders
- Companies combining technology and distribution
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Alternatives
These are separate documents, for different jobs.
- Partnership agreementsSet out how partners share work, profit and decisions.View document
- Non-disclosure agreementsKeep information shared between parties confidential.View document
- Letter of IntentState the main terms two parties intend to agree.View document
- Business Contract TemplateA general contract for a business deal between two parties.View document
When to use this
- Two firms bid on a contract together and want their split recorded
- A technology company and a manufacturer launch a product between them
- Two businesses share the cost and profit of a one-off event
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About the joint-venture agreements
A joint venture is usually for a defined project and each side keeps its own business. A partnership is an ongoing business. If yours is open-ended, the partnership form may suit better.
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