Limited Company Contractor Agreement (Contractor Company and Client)

A contract for a contractor’s limited company providing services to a client – services and deliverables, the right of substitution, contractor’s control of methods, fees and invoicing, expenses, defects at the contractor’s cost, insurance, IP, confidentiality, data, status determinations and termination.

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Limited Company Contractor Agreement (Contractor Company and Client)

About this document

What it’s for

A contractor working through their own company needs a contract that reflects a genuine business-to-business relationship – the company provides services, controls how they are delivered, can send a substitute, and takes financial risk. This template is drafted to reflect those features. It must match reality to be effective for IR35 purposes.

When to use it

  • For contracts directly between a contractor’s company and a client (where no agency is involved)
  • As a comparison when reviewing a client’s or agency’s contract
  • When renewing or varying a contract

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Definitions
  2. Services
  3. Client obligations
  4. Substitution
  5. Fees and invoicing
  6. Defects
  7. Intellectual property
  8. Confidentiality and data protection
  9. Insurance and liability
  10. Status
  11. Term and termination
  12. General

How to complete it

  • Describe the services as outcomes or deliverables, not a job role
  • Fill in fees, payment terms and notice in the Schedule
  • Keep evidence that the working practices match the contract

Key points to check

  • If the client is medium or large, it must issue a status determination statement – the contract does not decide status by itself
  • Make sure your professional indemnity insurance covers the work and the liability cap

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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