Legal Notices

Legal Notices

The terms relating to use of this website have been divided into a number of sections.  These can be accessed below and these sections form the Legal Notices. 

The Legal Notices, as amended by us from time to time, set out the basis on which you may use this website.

General

Allen & Overy is an international legal practice comprising Allen & Overy LLP and its affiliated undertakings.

Allen & Overy LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC306763 and registered office at One Bishops Square, London, E1 6AD, United Kingdom. 

References in the Legal Notices and elsewhere on this website to Allen & Overy mean Allen & Overy LLP, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and the other partnerships, corporations and undertakings which are authorised to practise using the name "Allen & Overy" as the context may require.  "We" or "us" or "our" mean Allen & Overy.

The term "partner" is used to refer to a member of Allen & Overy LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications or an individual with equivalent status in one of Allen & Overy LLP's affiliated undertakings.  A list of the members of Allen & Overy LLP and of the non-members who are designated as partners and their professional qualifications is open to inspection at its registered office, One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD, United Kingdom.

"Allen & Overy" and "A&O" are registered trademarks.

Terms of Use

This website is provided by Allen & Overy LLP.  These Terms of Use are the terms and conditions on which we provide the text, software, database, format, documents, graphic and written work and all other materials  published on this website (the "content") and the basis on which we allow access to it.  Please read them carefully.

This website is for your own private use.  By accessing this website, you agree:

• not to use this website or its content in contravention of any regulation or legislation;
• not to copy, amend, reproduce or distribute the content, or disclose the content to third parties, other than in compliance with our Copyright Notice;
• not to advertise or sell any goods or services to other users of this website or to benefit commercially from its content; and
• that you are responsible for any material you send to or upload to this website and that such material is legal, truthful and neither offensive nor misleading and does not infringe our rights, those of third parties or the provisions of the Legal Notices.

Intellectual Property Rights

We, our suppliers, or third parties who have granted us permission to reproduce their material on this website, own all trade marks, copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the content on this website. 

Our Copyright Notice forms part of the Legal Notices and therefore the terms on which we provide and allow access to this website.

Online Privacy

Our on-line Privacy Policy forms part of the Legal Notices and therefore the terms on which we provide and allow access to this website.

Limitations and Exclusions of our Liability

Our website and its contents are provided for general information purposes only and nothing on this website or in its contents is intended to solicit clients or to provide legal or other professional advice.  We do not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from reliance on information or materials published on this website.  If you wish to find out more about the information in the materials published, please contact us by email.  If you require advice on a specific legal issue, please contact a lawyer at Allen & Overy through www.allenovery.com or alternatively send an e-mail to information@allenovery.com.

We are not responsible or liable for any matter relating to you or any third parties accessing or using this website and its contents.

We do not endorse nor are we responsible for the contents of websites operated by others that link to this website or that are accessible from it. 

Nothing in these Terms of Use or the Legal Notices excludes or limits our liability for fraud or for death or personal injury arising from our negligence or for any other matter in respect of which it would be unlawful or in breach of regulation to limit or exclude liability.

General

Our rights under the Legal Notices may be waived only in writing and specifically.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

The Legal Notices shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with English law and we and you each submit irrevocably to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

Copyright Notice

Copyright in some documents and material available on this website belongs to third parties and has been produced on this website with the permission of the third party copyright owners.  Please check the copyright notices of those third parties.

With the exception of copyright belonging to third parties and unless otherwise stated, copyright in the pages of this website and all other material available through it belongs to Allen & Overy LLP and/or its affiliated undertakings. 

You may print or save copies of the content of this website for your own personal use and you may provide copies to others for information purposes, on the basis that:

• you do so on an occasional basis and free of charge;  
• the copies are not tampered with in any way; and
• the recipient is made aware of the terms of this Copyright Notice.

Any other reproduction, transmission and storing of all or part of this website and the materials available through it, in any medium, without the written permission of Allen & Overy LLP, is prohibited.

We only permit electronic links to pages of this website from which the Legal Notices can be accessed.  You may not provide an electronic link to any other page of this website or to any other documents hosted on this website without our consent.  We reserve the right to request that you remove an electronic link to this website at any time and you agree to remove such a link immediately.

Where access to restricted parts of this website is subject to more specific terms, those terms apply instead.

Recruitment

If you apply for a position at Allen & Overy advertised on this website, your curriculum vitae or other information you provide to us will be used solely for considering your application and for recruitment purposes.

In acknowledging an application, Allen & Overy is not verifying the content, accepting the application or making any offer of employment or engagement.  Allen & Overy is not obliged to accept any applications.

Allen & Overy is an equal opportunity employer (in accordance with applicable legislation) and does not discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability or any other basis covered by local legislation.  All employment-related decisions are made entirely on merit.

Regulation

Allen & Overy's offices and the lawyers working there may be subject to rules, regulations and/or supervisory standards applicable to their location.  Please see the country-specific information on Allen & Overy’s website at www.allenovery.com/legalnotices for further information.  Also, please see Allen & Overy’s website at www.allenovery.com/legalnotices for further information about how we are regulated and our complaints procedure.

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