Contract Translation 101: 5 Essential Tips for Success
Read five tips for a successful contract translation. It covers terminology, structure, and review.
Need an agreement translated so each party knows what they are signing? MotaWord translates your agreements for legal teams, founders, and business owners working with parties that speak other languages. Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word, and certified translations are available when a court or authority asks for one.
Upload your agreements in any of 120+ languages and get an instant quote that gives you a price and a turnaround time. Our professional translators translate obligations, defined terms, confidentiality clauses, dates, and signatures. Short documents can be ready in as little as 12 hours, and certified translations include free digital notarization. Live chat is available 24/7 for support.
An agreement records what each party promised. In a translated agreement, words like shall, may, and best efforts carry the weight of the deal. That shapes how we translate agreements:
When you order with MotaWord, your translation matches your agreement line for line: every recital, clause, schedule, and signature. Large deals bring many agreements at once. Learn how accuracy is kept in M&A translations.
MotaWord has a team of 26,000+ translators available to work on the translation of your agreements, and ordering takes a few clicks. Four steps take your agreements from upload to a certified translation:
Our online ordering is available 24/7. Upload your agreements for an instant and no-obligation quote at any hour. Make sure that our system detected the correct source language and select the languages you need. Our professional translators keep the recitals, clause numbering, and schedules of your agreement, so each party can find the same promise in its own language.
Translators are matched by language pair and subject knowledge in corporate and commercial law. Party names, defined terms, and amounts are translated consistently, and every translation is edited and proofread by a second linguist.
Your certified agreement translation comes with a signed certificate of accuracy and free digital notarization. If something needs fixing, or for any question, reach out to us live on our online chat 24/7.
Once you order your translation, a MotaWord client dashboard is automatically created for you. You can see the progress of your translations, follow up on your orders, download your agreement translation and your invoices, and talk to us at any time via live chat. See everything you can do in your MotaWord client dashboard.
A translated agreement can be challenged over one small detail: shall read as may, a confidentiality period that changed, or a party name spelled two ways. Each of these is checked on your order.
26,000+ Professional Translators: Translators are matched by language pair and subject knowledge in corporate and commercial law.
Obligations Keep Their Strength: Words that create duties, options, and conditions are translated with the same legal force as the original.
Signed Certificate of Accuracy: Every translation carries a certificate of accuracy that courts, banks, and other institutions accept.
Fast Delivery and Free Revisions: Delivery in as little as 12 hours and free revisions.
NDA and SOC 2 Type II: Our translators sign an NDA to be able to work on our platform, and our platform's security is attested to by our SOC 2 Type II certification.
A Person on Live Support 24/7: It is important to have access to a human when you have questions. We are here to help 24/7 via live chat, whatever your time zone.
We translate the agreements companies and founders sign with partners, investors, and employees abroad, including:
Deals usually come with more paperwork: business contracts, corporate records, financial statements, powers of attorney, and meeting minutes. MotaWord translates them with the same defined terms in every file. For the negotiation itself, an interpreter can join the meeting. Book an on-site interpreter for your next meeting. Every file and invoice stays in one client dashboard.
Agreements hold deal terms, valuations, and settlement amounts that are confidential by design. You need to make sure that the company you pick has invested in the security of your agreements. MotaWord is SOC 2 Type II certified. Learn what our SOC 2 Type II certification means for your files.
All uploads are encrypted, and our translators sign an NDA to be able to work on our platform. Your agreements and all other company documents are safe with us.
We translate agreements from and into 120+ languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French. Popular languages are listed below.
Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word and includes translation, editing, and proofreading by separate linguists. Your instant quote shows the exact price and delivery time. See all prices on our pricing page.
Yes. Short agreements like NDAs can be ready in as little as 12 hours, and your instant quote shows the delivery time before you order.
It can be. Every certified translation comes with a signed certificate of accuracy and free digital notarization, which courts and agencies accept with a filing. See our legal translation services.
Yes. Upload the agreement with every schedule and annex, and terms stay the same across all of them. Upload every file together for one instant quote.
None in how we translate them: both are translated clause by clause with consistent terms. See how we translate business contracts.
Yes. Residential and commercial leases are translated with every party, amount, and date kept exactly as written. See how we translate rental agreements.
Yes. MotaWord supports translating your agreement into several languages at once, in a single order, with the same defined terms in every version.
A free tool can turn a duty into an option without warning you, and in an NDA or settlement that one word changes the deal. At MotaWord, professional translators with subject knowledge in corporate and commercial law translate your agreement, a second linguist edits and proofreads it, and obligation words keep the same legal force. Certified translations with a signed certificate of accuracy are available, and revisions are free. Professional human translation starts at $0.09 per word, and your instant quote shows the exact price before you order.
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