Legal documents

Contract translation
for words that bind

A contract is the one document where "roughly right" is wrong. We translate agreements so they mean the same thing in both languages — and so your counterparty’s lawyer finds nothing to work with.

  • Commercial and employment contracts
  • Terms, policies and powers of attorney
  • Legal terms rendered by meaning
  • Revised by a second translator
  • Sworn translation for court use
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    Why legal text is its own language

    Legal systems do not translate one-to-one. A term like "consideration" or "Gewährleistung" belongs to one legal tradition, and the neighbouring system carves the same ground up differently. Translate the word and you can quietly change the obligation; the sentence still reads perfectly, which is exactly the problem.

    Our legal translators render terms by their function in the target system, keep the original term in brackets where a lawyer will want to see it, and leave nothing to silent interpretation. Every contract is then revised in full by a second translator, with defined terms, party names, amounts and dates checked against the source one by one.

    For companies that send us agreements regularly, there is a compounding benefit: your defined terms and standard clauses live in a translation memory and termbase we keep for you, so this year’s framework agreement uses exactly the wording of last year’s — and the repeated clauses are not charged again.

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    Legal documents we translate

    If yours is not listed, send it anyway — the answer is almost always yes.

    Frequently asked questions

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    Do I need a sworn translation of my contract?
    Only if it is going to a court, a registry or a public authority — they usually require one. Between private parties, a professional translation is normally enough. Tell us what the translation is for and we will confirm, before you pay for certification you do not need.
    Will you sign our NDA before we send anything?
    Yes, routinely — and we can sign yours rather than asking you to accept ours. Every translator working on your material is under a confidentiality agreement with us.
    How do you handle terms that have no direct equivalent?
    By function, not by dictionary. We render the term by what it does in the target legal system, and where a lawyer will want to see the original — a statute name, a defined term, a specific legal concept — we keep it in brackets alongside. What we never do is pick a lookalike word and move on.
    Can you keep the wording consistent across all our agreements?
    Yes. Your defined terms and recurring clauses are kept in a termbase and translation memory we maintain for you, so every agreement uses the same rendering — and clauses we have already translated for you are not charged again.
    Our lawyer wants to review the translation. Can you work with that?
    Gladly — a legal review on the target side is good practice for anything high-stakes. We deliver in a format that makes reviewing easy, and if your lawyer prefers a different rendering of a term, we update the termbase so it sticks for every future document.
    What does a contract translation cost?
    It depends on length, the language pair, and how much of it we have effectively translated for you before. You get one fixed price before we start — with no obligation.

    A contract on your desk in the wrong language?

    Send it over. Fixed price, same-day answer, and an NDA before anything else if you want one.

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