Confidentiality Agreement/NDA: one way – long
A comprehensive NDA, in the form of an agreement, for the unilateral disclosure of confirmation information and for use in general business transactions and joint ventures. It contains robust legal protections for the benefit of the disclosing party.
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When should I use this document?
- for general business transactions or joint ventures
- where only one party will disclose confidential information
- for a longer form NDA with strong legal protections for the discloser of information
What are the key features?
- 17 clauses over 9 pages
- definitions of Confidential Information and Proposed Transaction
- confidentiality obligations
- authorised recipients of Confidential Information
- circumstances permitting compulsory disclosure
- procedure for returning Confidential Information to its owner
- prohibition on poaching the disclosing party’s employees
- contractual remedies for breach of the NDA, including contractual indemnity in favour of the disclosing party
- duration of agreement
What else do I need to know?
It’s quite common that some clauses of an NDA may be resisted by the receiving party. The guidance notes which accompany this document explain how provisions, such as the following, might be negotiated to reach mutual agreement:
- non-solicitation covenants
- a contractual indemnity for breach of the confidentiality obligations
- the duration of the agreement
What other documents are available?
For a shorter form of one way confidentiality agreement, see
For forms of confidentiality agreement where both parties will disclose confidential information to the other see
When do I use this document?
- for a company’s statutory registers, also known as statutory books or company books.
- for a private limited company.
- for company registers which will be stored electronically.
What are the key features?
- easy to complete statutory register template.
- registers of:
- members (shareholders).
- share allotments.
- share transfers.
- directors.
- company secretary.
- directors’ residential addresses.
- charges.
- people with significant control (PSC Register).
What else do I need to know?
Companies Act 2006 requires a company to prepare and maintain certain statutory registers, including:
- a register of directors and secretary and a separate register of directors’ residential addresses.
- a register of members.
- a register of charges (if created prior to 6 April 2013).
- unless exempt, a register of people with significant control (a PSC Register).
These registers, often called the company’s statutory books, must be kept either at the company’s registered office or at another specified address.
Most of these registers can be inspected by the public on payment of a fee. The register of directors’ residential addresses is not available for public inspection.
The registers can be held in electronic form.
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