Contracts Without Bottlenecks

Contracting volume is rising, driven by nearshoring, new suppliers, tighter regulatory demands, and growing business complexity. At the same time, many in-house teams are being asked to absorb more work without adding headcount. The natural instinct is often to look for a CLM system or AI solution, but many contracting bottlenecks are not technology problems. They are diagnosis problems.

In this session, Maxim Svyatov, AI Task Force Officer at Loyens & Loeff, will explore how legal teams can improve contracting workflows by starting with the real problem, not the tool. He will discuss how to observe where contracts actually stall, audit the fundamentals, identify trust and ownership gaps, and only then define KPIs that support meaningful improvement.

The session will be practical for lean legal teams managing increasing contracting demands, with a focus on common-sense process improvement before technology implementation.