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You’re building this together. Nobody’s written down whose it is. Not who owns the company — whose customer list, whose brand, whose code, when it ends.
Shared customers. A joint brand. Sometimes shared code. Nothing says whose.
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businesses — not two people — is what a joint venture actually governs
What a joint venture agreement actually has to answer
Four questions, or it’s a handshake with a letterhead
CONTRIBUTIONS
What each side actually brings in
Cash, IP, staff, an existing customer base — and at what value each side is counting it. Undervalue what you bring and you’ve agreed to a smaller share of what it becomes.
NEW ASSETS
Who owns what the venture builds
A joint product, a shared customer list, code written by people on both payrolls — without a term saying otherwise, it defaults to whoever’s name is on it, not whoever built it.
BRAND
The name you’re both using
If the venture trades under one name, someone keeps using it — and someone stops — the day it ends.
EXIT
The event that ends it, and what happens next
Not just ‘if it doesn’t work out’ — a target hit, a term expiring, one side wanting out. Each needs its own answer for what happens to the shared assets.
+ none of these are about who owns the venture itself — most joint ventures never become one shared company at all
+ if the real answer is one shared company, this is the wrong document — that’s a shareholder agreement, and the terms you need are different
What one undocumented month becomes
Nothing about a single shared customer feels urgent to write down. It’s what happens next that does:
None of it was hidden. It just was never anyone’s job to write down whose it was — until the day that stops being a technicality.
The venture doesn’t merge you into one company
A joint venture is an agreement between two businesses — not a merger of them. Whatever it says about splitting profit, control or a shared brand, each company keeps its own creditors, its own tax position and its own liabilities, separately, the whole time.
Malaysian law has no separate legal status called a ‘joint venture’ — depending how it’s structured, an unincorporated one can be treated as a partnership by default, and partnership law’s default rules about property acquired for the venture can then decide who owns a jointly-created asset, absent the parties’ own agreement saying otherwise. The exact statutory basis is being confirmed with legal before this page cites a specific provision.
The one question that decides this
Anyone can draft a joint venture agreement. Almost nobody writes down what happens to the shared stuff when it ends.
What happens once the venture is six months old
Today, a commercial lawyer and OCTIS draft the same sound agreement. The difference shows up later, once ‘what did we actually bring in’ stops being obvious:
What’s actually left to negotiate
Drafting a joint venture agreement usually starts with assembling a list of what your company owns and is bringing in. Here’s what doesn’t need assembling, if your side already runs through OCTIS:
The moment the ownership question locks in
Right up until signature, moving an asset from ‘shared’ to ‘clearly one company’s’ costs a conversation. After, it costs a renegotiation.
What a JV agreement drafted once cannot settle
What they do well
A commercial firm will draft the joint-venture agreement properly — the profit split, the governance, the exit mechanics. Those are the clauses everyone argues about and they get them right.
What their shape can't reach
What actually decides who keeps the customer list, the domain or the trademark when it ends is whose name each one is registered under — which is a record, not a clause. A firm drafting the agreement has no sight of those registrations, so the document can be perfect and the question still unanswered.
What it costs to keep your half of the record
RM 0
extra to store the signed JV agreement, and your own company’s contribution and IP records, in the same vault the rest of your company’s documents already live in.
From what’s being built to what’s signed
There’s no fixed price to show — it scales with how many parties are involved and how the venture is structured. This is the actual sequence:
You tell us what you’re building
who’s involved, what each side is bringing in, and roughly how it’s meant to work
We help pick the structure
a new joint entity, a contractual JV, or a lighter-touch alliance — matched to what you’re actually forming
We draft, and both sides negotiate
contribution, new-asset ownership, brand use and exit terms — in one shared draft, not emailed versions and conflicting markups
Both sides sign
the agreement and the structure are recorded — on your side, in the same account as the rest of your company’s records
Complexity is set by the number of parties and what’s actually being shared, not by a flat catalogue tier — a two-party alliance with no new entity is scoped differently from a multi-party JV with its own company and shared IP.
Who does the work
Licensed lawyers on our panel
The legal drafting is undertaken by licensed practitioners we work with. OCTIS runs the intake, the structuring conversation and the record around it — not a re-explanation from scratch.
Not a flat fee
Priced to the venture, not a catalogue price
A two-party alliance with no new entity is scoped differently from a multi-party JV with a shared company and IP — you’re quoted for the one you’re actually forming, before anything is drafted.
Not the guarantee
The 30-day money-back guarantee does not cover this service
It covers new company incorporation and transferring your company secretary to us. What applies here instead: the structure and every term are agreed with you, in writing, before either side signs.
Not covered
- A signed agreement still needs both companies to actually run the venture the way it describes — keeping the customer list separately tagged, invoicing under the right name, using the joint brand only where it’s meant to. The agreement sets the terms; living up to them day to day stays with both companies.
- If both sides will actually end up owning shares in one new company together, that’s not a joint venture — it’s a shareholder agreement, and the terms you need are different. Ask us and we’ll point you to the right one before you pay for the wrong document.
- If your side isn’t an
customer yet, the structuring and drafting still happen the same way — your existing contracts and IP just aren’t already on file, so assembling them is a step in the process rather than something already done. - The 30-day money-back guarantee covers only new company incorporation and transfer of company secretary — not joint venture or alliance agreements. What’s fixed here instead is that the structure and every term are agreed with you, in writing, before either side signs.
How is a joint venture or alliance agreement priced?
It’s scoped to the venture, not a flat catalogue price — the number of parties, whether you’re forming a new joint entity, and how much IP or branding is actually shared all change the scope. You get a fee agreed to your situation before anything is drafted, not a blind quote.
We’re doing a light-touch alliance, not building a company together — do we still need this?
Yes, just a lighter version. The structuring conversation covers this — a contractual JV or an alliance/MOU is a real option alongside a new joint entity, matched to what you’re actually forming rather than defaulting to the heaviest structure.
What happens to the customer list or IP if the venture ends?
That’s exactly what the agreement is meant to answer before it’s needed. Absent a term saying otherwise, an asset the venture created defaults to whoever’s name it’s registered under — not whoever built it or cared more about it.
We’re actually planning to own shares in one company together — is this the right document?
No. If both sides will end up owning shares in one new shared company, that’s a shareholder agreement, not a joint venture — the terms are different. Tell us that up front and we’ll point you to the right one.
Is this covered by the 30-day money-back guarantee?
No — the guarantee covers exactly two services, new company incorporation and transfer of company secretary. What applies here instead: the structure and every term are agreed with you, in writing, before either side signs.
A venture ends more ways than it fails — a target hit, a term expiring, one side wanting out. The agreement’s job is making sure ending it doesn’t cost either company something it built alone.
Tell us what you’re forming. We’ll help set the boundary — contributions, new assets, the brand, the exit — before anyone signs.