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What does Confidentiality mean? In legal practice, confidentiality is the obligation to keep a client’s information and affairs private and to use or disclose it only with proper authority. For lawyers, this duty of confidentiality arises from professional conduct rules (e.g., the SRA Standards and Regulations; the Law Society of Scotland Standards of Conduct; the Law Society of Northern Ireland rules; and the Law Society of Ireland guidance), from contract (engagement terms and non‑disclosure agreements), and from the equitable duty of confidence recognised in case law (breach of confidence). It sits alongside, but is distinct from, legal professional privilege, which protects defined categories...

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Debtor–Creditor Confidentiality Agreement for Corporate Restructuring or Standstill Negotiations (England and Wales)

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Confidentiality agreement — restructuring & Insolvency

This Agreement is entered into on [ insert day and month ] 20[ insert year ].

Parties

  1. [ insert name of debtor company ], a company registered in [ insert country eg England and Wales ] under number [ insert registered number ], whose registered office is at [ insert address ] (the Company); and
  2. The Creditors identified in the Schedule (the Creditors).

(Each of the Creditors and the Company is a Party and, together, the Creditors and the Company are the Parties).

Recitals

  1. (A) The Company undertakes to provide information to the Creditors, and the Creditors undertake to keep such information confidential and to use it solely for the purposes of assessing, negotiating, monitoring and implementing a [ Standstill Agreement OR Restructuring Agreement ].
  2. (B) [ insert any further recitals ].
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