Free Joint Venture Agreements Templates

The Seedsummit Founder Collaboration Agreement is designed for potential founders to establish key terms before officially incorporating a startup company. It outlines how intellectual property developed during the collaboration will be assigned to the future company, details initial share ownership and vesting schedules, and includes provisions for confidentiality.

The Common Paper Partnership Agreement is a plain-language, structured contract for referral, reseller, or co-marketing relationships defining roles, revenue sharing, and joint obligations between partners. It is part of CommonPaper’s widely trusted library of open, lawyer-vetted standard agreements.

The Seedsummit Advance Subscription Agreement (ASA) allows an investor to provide funds to a company in exchange for equity that will be issued at a future event, such as the company’s next funding round, sale, or listing, without requiring immediate repayment or interest. It is useful because it enables early-stage companies to raise capital before a formal valuation is established, while providing investors with clear rights, protections, and the ability to convert their investment into equity under agreed terms.

The Seedsummit French Collaboration Agreement template governs the pre-incorporation relationship between startup founders working together on a project before forming a company (“NewCo”). It sets out terms on share structure, governance, IP transfer, confidentiality, and founder commitments, with guidance for incorporating standard French legal provisions and preparing a future shareholders’ agreement.

The Seedsummit Shareholders’ Agreement governs the ownership, rights, and obligations of two parties as shareholders in a Danish company, setting rules for share transfers, board composition, voting, and key management decisions. It also regulates pre-emption, tag-along and drag-along rights, restrictive covenants, breach remedies, confidentiality, and dispute resolution under Danish law.

The Seedsummit Founder Collaboration Agreement sets out how two or more individuals will jointly develop a business concept or technology in Portugal and later transfer it to a newly formed start-up company. It governs IP ownership, share allocation (with optional vesting and sale terms), and confirms that all rights in the developed technology will belong to the future company.

This template is a **Business Partnership Agreement** designed for two individuals forming a general partnership. It outlines the partnership's formation, business purpose, capital contributions, profit and loss allocation, management structure, and procedures for dissolution and dispute resolution. It serves as a foundational legal document for establishing a new business venture between partners.

This template is a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for establishing a joint venture focused on setting up an internet portal. It outlines the initial investment, share capital distribution between two groups, and provisions for board representation and future financing.

This template establishes an exclusive distribution relationship where a manufacturer appoints a local partner to sell specific products within the Indian market. It covers essential terms such as **product exclusivity**, minimum purchase requirements, technical support, and intellectual property usage. The agreement also provides for dispute resolution via arbitration and specifies Indian law as the governing framework.

An agreement for the transfer of development rights over a plot in India, under which landowners (Vendors), with their existing developer (Confirming Party) joining, grant a third builder (Purchasers) the right to construct a specified building on a sub-divided sector plot and to sell the flats therein on ownership basis. It covers the consideration per square foot of built-up area and the payment schedule, permitted amendments to sanctioned plans, the purchasers' right to sell units in their own name and retain the proceeds, rights of way and shared use and maintenance of internal roads and services, apportionment of taxes and outgoings, handover of possession with authority to construct and advertise, formation of the flat purchasers' society and eventual conveyance or 99-year lease, indemnities, the completion timeline, and required tax clearances and permissions.