This head office services agreement template is typically used in an intercompany transaction between a head office and its group companies. Within a multinational enterprise a head office often provides and coordinates a wide range of useful and beneficial support services for the benefit of its group companies in the fields of finance, legal, human resource, tax and alike.

This agreement template is used to state the rights and responsibilities of the head office as service provider, and the group company as service recipient. It substantiates the at arm’s length character of the service charges, taking into consideration so-called ‘direct charges’ for specific services and ‘indirect charges’ where services cannot specifically be attributed to one or more group companies. The Appendix to the agreement template also contains extensive sample wording of the benefits that are generally provided by a number of typical head office departments.

Common terms in this agreement template inter alia cover the obligations of the service provider, fees and payment terms, record keeping and termination.