Confidentiality Agreement/NDA: Mutual – Long

A comprehensive NDA, in the form of an agreement, for the mutual disclosure of confidential information and for use in general business transactions and joint ventures.  It ensures equal protection for both parties’ confidential information.

 

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When do I use this document?

  • for general business transactions or joint ventures
  • where both parties 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 each other’s employees
  • contractual indemnity for confidentiality breaches
  • duration of agreement

What other documents are available?

For a shorter form of mutual confidentiality agreement, see

For forms of confidentiality agreement where only one party will disclose confidential information 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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Updated by a lawyer on 04/11/2025

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