• Affiliation contracts are “take it or leave it” agreements where you have to accept or reject the contract as a whole.

  • Accession agreements are designed to simplify business transactions by standardizing the agreement between the supplier and the buyer.
  • In order to ensure enforceability, accession agreements cannot be unreasonably unilateral.
  • Ultimately, the courts decide what is reasonable in the framework of an adhesion contract. This changes over time and may differ between jurisdictions.