From the global pandemic to inflation shocks, rising interest rates, and geopolitical unrest, the deal landscape has been in a constant state of flux.
One year saw record-breaking M&A activity; the next brought sudden slowdowns and investor caution. As traditional deals paused, reorganisations, distressed sales, and early-stage tech investments surged. This continual ebb and flow of deal types has placed unprecedented pressure on corporate practices to stay efficient, consistent, and responsive — no matter what comes next.
The efficiency challenge in corporate drafting
Whether you’re drafting a complex Share Purchase Agreement (SPA), preparing reorganisation documents, negotiating early-stage investments, or business purchase agreements, one constant remains: a heavy drafting workload.
Each transaction demands multiple long, intricate documents — all with tight deadlines and high client expectations. In these conditions, efficiency and quality must go hand in hand. Yet maintaining both becomes increasingly difficult when deal types shift frequently, appear only occasionally throughout the year, or like buses, come all at once.
How deep automation transforms the drafting process
This is where deep automation proves invaluable. By reducing repetitive, manual drafting, automation helps teams generate first drafts quickly and consistently — without compromising quality.
It also eliminates the need to duplicate effort or search through past deal files for precedents. Instead, lawyers can rely on automated templates that are already aligned with best practice. This not only accelerates turnaround times but also frees up capacity for lawyers to focus on the bespoke, strategic aspects of each transaction.
From Real Estate Plus to Corporate Plus: Extending proven success
Following the success of Real Estate Plus, our collection of automated precedents covering almost all of a commercial real estate lawyer's needs, we’ve now extended this proven approach to corporate law.
Introducing Clarilis Corporate Plus — a unified collection of automated documents across all major deal types. Rather than licensing individual suites of documents based on a firm’s current workload, Corporate Plus allows firms to licence a broad range of automations to cover their needs in all markets.
A complete solution for corporate drafting
Corporate Plus combines four key automation products into a single, fully maintained platform:
- M&A Suite – over 40 deeply automated FromCounsel SPA and ancillary precedents
- Share Reorganisation Suites – over 100 automated Share Reorganisation documents
- Early-Stage Investment Suite – automated BVCA model forms plus market standard drafting and ancillary precedents provided by Addleshaw Goddard
- Business Purchase Agreement Suite - deeply automated FromCounsel BPA and ancillary precedents
By consolidating these capabilities, corporate teams gain immediate access to a comprehensive collection of automated precedents that cover all the core documents and ancillary materials. Every automation is centrally maintained and regularly updated with the latest guidance and best practices.
This ensures that, regardless of how often a particular deal type arises - or when a team last worked on it - they’re always starting from the most accurate and up-to-date automated documents.
Clarilis AI Draft
By turning market-standard content into automated precedents, our intelligent automation technology enables lawyers to produce first drafts that are 90% complete in minutes, with minimal effort. But no matter how thorough our automations are, they simply can’t account for every nuance, exception, or deal-specific scenario. In other words, even with deep automation, completing the final 10% of that first draft typically relies on manual drafting, which is why we created Clarilis AI Draft.
Clarilis AI Draft is built into all of the Corporate Plus suites. Once users complete the standard Clarilis automation process – filling out the questionnaire to generate a suite of documents – they can, if they choose, use AI Draft to assist with any additional drafting they require. This might be generating text for bespoke clauses, inserting new defined terms, creating emails, or even producing an entirely new document.
Unlike general-purpose AI tools (which can produce anything from LinkedIn posts to computer code), AI Draft is highly configured for legal drafting tasks. Looking for a new clause? A definition? An ancillary document? Each task adheres to a different set of drafting conventions and structural requirements, and AI Draft automatically adapts accordingly. This enables lawyers to simply ask for the drafting they require, without worrying about specifying (and remembering) those drafting conventions or needing to become expert ‘AI prompt engineers’.
Staying ready for whatever comes next
So, back to the opening issue, when it comes to corporate transactions, as indeed in life, uncertainty is the only certainty there is*. When the mix of deals flips (again), the key to success is agility.
With Clarilis Corporate Plus, corporate practices can adapt to shifting priorities and maintain the same high drafting standards across all deal types. Whether those deals arrive sporadically or all at once, your drafting stays fast, consistent, and high‑quality — and your lawyers can focus on the strategic work that differentiates your practice.
Learn more here: https://www.clarilis.com/products/corporate-plus
*Widely attributed to John Allen Paulos in case you were wondering!
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