Clyde & Co

The firm

Clyde & Co and Barlow Lyde & Gilbert merged on 1 November 2011. The merged firm is known as, and trades globally, as Clyde & Co.
Clyde & Co is an international law firm comprising Clyde & Co LLP and subsidiary undertakings.  All references in this website to 'I', 'We', 'Us', 'Our', 'Clyde & Co', 'the firm' and the like should be read as referring to Clyde & Co LLP and the other partnerships, limited liability partnerships, companies and other entities forming part of the practice of Clyde & Co and which are authorised to carry the name 'Clyde & Co', 'Beaumont and Son' or to describe themselves as being 'in association with Clyde & Co LLP' (or similar expressions) or one or more of those undertakings as the context requires.

Global legal structure of Clyde & Co

• The business carried on by Clyde & Co in the UK and its locally registered, and licenced branches in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Nantes, Paris and Singapore is carried on through a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales known as Clyde & Co LLP but which continues to practise under the name Clyde & Co.
• Certain work undertaken in Manchester and Oxford is carried out by Clyde & Co Claims LLP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Clyde & Co LLP.
• The Qatar Financial Centre Branch is licenced by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority.
• The Dubai International Financial Centre office is registered with the Dubai Financial Services Authority.
• Clasis LLC is a Singapore law practice registered as a limited liability law corporation in Singapore. It is associated with Clyde & Co. Clasis LLC is an independent law practice and is not a subsidiary or branch of Clyde & Co or Clyde & Co LLP. 
  
  Clyde & Co LLP and Clyde & Co Claims LLP are both limited liability partnerships registered in England and Wales under numbers OC326539 and OC344148 respectively and both with registered offices at The St Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AR, United Kingdom

• The business structures for other Clyde & Co offices differ depending on the prevailing laws and regulations of the particular jurisdictions in which the offices are located.
• Associated firms are associated with Clyde & Co LLP.

Clyde & Co offices and associated * offices worldwide:

Abu Dhabi, Caracas, Doha, Dubai, Guildford, Hong Kong, London, Manchester, Montréal, Moscow, Nantes, New Jersey, New York, Oxford, Paris, Piraeus, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Toronto and associate offices in Belgrade, Dar es Salaam, Mumbai, New Delhi, Riyadh and St Petersburg.

Partners

The term partner is used to refer to a member of Clyde & Co LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications or an individual with equivalent status in one of Clyde & Co LLP's subsidiary undertakings.  A list of the members of Clyde & Co LLP and of the non-members who are designated as partners is open to inspection at its registered office at The St Botolph Building, 138 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AR, United Kingdom.  Members are either solicitors or registered foreign lawyers.

Regulation

In the United Kingdom, Clyde & Co LLP and Clyde & Co Claims LLP are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales. Outside the United Kingdom, Clyde & Co LLP and its subsidiary undertakings are regulated according to the jurisdiction where they practise.  Individual lawyers may also be regulated in another jurisdiction where they are admitted to practise.  The Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales regulations for solicitors are available online at http://www.sra.org.uk/home/home.page

Website pages made before 1 May 2007

Before 1 May 2007, the law firm 'Clyde & Co' was a general partnership set up under English law with subsidiary undertakings.  Although this website includes documents produced before then, nothing in them means that Clyde & Co LLP or any limited liability affiliate is a general partnership or has unlimited liability.

Use of this site

This website is owned by Clyde & Co LLP. You agree to use this site for lawful purposes only and in a manner which is consistent with any and all applicable law and regulation in the country in which you access this site.  Your use of this site should not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party.  You agree not to import or transfer to this site either directly or indirectly any information or other content which is or may be inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, obscene or offensive or in breach of any intellectual property right or similar right or damaging to the software or performance of this site.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all rights, including copyright and database rights, in this site and its contents are owned by (or licensed to) us or otherwise used by us as permitted by applicable law.  You may access the contents of the site only for your own private use or internal use within your employer's organisation, but not for any commercial or public use.  You may download and use the service on a single CPU at a time and you can print out hard copies of any part of the content on the Site for your personal use or use within your employer's organisation.  Except where your use is permitted above or by copyright law, you may not otherwise copy, store in any medium (including any other web site), distribute, transmit, re-transmit, broadcast, modify or show in public any part of this site without our prior written permission.

Links

Where we provide hypertext links to other web sites or contacts, we do so for information purposes only and such links do not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by us of any products or services in such sites.  You use such links entirely at your own risk and we accept no responsibility for the content or use of such web sites or for the information contained on such sites (including any web site through which you may have gained access to our web site).  You may not link to this site, nor frame it without our written permission.

Disclaimer

Although we take pride in this site, please note that the information posted on it is general in nature and, at times, may be incomplete, out of date or inaccurate.  Furthermore, laws and regulations vary by jurisdiction and change from time to time and compliance will always depend upon the particular circumstances.  For these reasons, we do not intend the information on or downloaded from this site to supplement or be a substitute for the expertise and judgement of your independent legal advisor.  Any reliance on this information is solely at your own risk. Accordingly, we do not accept any liability for any loss which may arise from reliance upon this information.

Our liability to you

We make no warranties except as set out in these terms and conditions and to the extent permitted by applicable law all other express and implied warranties and conditions are hereby excluded.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude any liability arising out of access to or use of or reliance on any information posted on or downloaded from this site.

Severability

Should any part of these terms and conditions for any reason be declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such determination shall not affect the validity of any remaining portion and such remaining portion shall remain in full force and effect as if the invalid portion of these terms and conditions had been eliminated.

Money laundering

In the UK and other jurisdictions in which we operate, we are required to identify clients for the purpose of anti-money laundering legislation. This means that when we first receive instructions from a client, we are required to identify both our client and (if applicable) the client’s beneficial owner(s) and to verify those identities. We may therefore ask you to provide us with appropriate evidence of identity or other information, which we will retain. If satisfactory evidence or information is not provided within a reasonable time of our request we may have to stop acting for you. In that event you will be charged for work done up to the time we stop acting.

Professional indemnity insurance

In the UK and other jurisdictions in which we operate, we are required to have in place professional indemnity insurance. The name of our professional indemnity insurer is available upon request.

Financial Services Authority

We are included on the register of professional firms maintained by the Financial Services Authority so that we can carry on certain regulated activities such as insurance mediation (which is broadly the advising on, selling and administration of insurance contracts) as an incidental part of our normal professional services. This part of our business is also regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The register can be accessed via the Financial Services Authority website at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/register/

Fraudulent emails

We have been made aware that from time to time members of the public may be sent fraudulent emails, purporting to come from the firm. The emails contain a copy of the firm's logo and relay imaginative factual circumstances with a request for the recipient to contact the sender, providing personal or confidential information. Such emails are known to the Metropolitan Police and NCIS as "419 scams". Clyde & Co has no involvement with these emails. Members of the public who are in receipt of a 419 scam email should not to respond to it.

Governing Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions and your use of this site are governed by English law.  Disputes arising out of these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Contacting Us
If you are in doubt as to the accuracy and currency of any information posted on or downloaded from this site, or if you require any further information, please contact us at sitemanager@clydeco.com

Terms of business - Clyde & Co LLP

All rights and obligations, including any contractual obligations which the partnership Clyde & Co or any of its individual partners or staff had with a client prior to 1 May 2007, have been transferred to and assumed by Clyde & Co LLP.  The terms of engagement under which Clyde & Co LLP provides services to a client are, apart from Clyde & Co LLP becoming the contracting party, those that have previously been supplied to clients.  Revised terms of engagement reflecting the move to LLP status are applicable in respect of all new instructions to Clyde & Co LLP from 1 May 2007.