In your face

What a legal eagle thinks after confecting a winningly pedantic comment, just when all the business guys thought the docs were done. Such a comment — or the wanton last-ditch insertion of some irrelevant boilerplate, like a counterparts clause or something — entitles its author to showboat before the deal-team, like a footballer striker’s post-goal swept-back wing glide or a knee slide or — if you are supple enough — both.

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• (Somewhat more elaborately) counterparts and entire agreement clauses