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Please insert Company name in brackets at (2) on Page 1 and signature block on Page 5 of
attached Non-Disclosure Agreement.
When the Non-Disclosure document is complete please print two copies, sign both copies
and return them to the Supply Management Manager whose name appears on the email at
the following address:
Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited
One Cabot Square
London E14 4QJ
Both copies will be signed on behalf of Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited and one
copy will be returned to you for your records.
The date of this agreement (the “Agreement”) shall be the date both parties have duly signed below
and this Agreement is made:
BETWEEN
(1) Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited (“CSSE”), a company incorporated in England and
Wales with registration number 891554, whose registered office address is at One Cabot
Square, London E14 4QJ; and
(2) [ ] whose VAT or sales tax number, registered number,
registered address and D&B D-U-N-S number are set out in Appendix 1 hereto (the
“Company”).
NOW IT IS HEREBY agreed:
1. For the purposes of this Agreement:
(a) “Affiliate” means, in respect of a party, its ultimate holding company and any
subsidiary of that holding company (and for the purposes of this definition,
“subsidiary” and “holding company” shall have the meanings ascribed to them by
Sections 736 and 736A of the Companies Act 1985 (as amended from time to
time));
(b) “Disclosing Party” means the party disclosing any Information or whose Affiliates
disclose any Information;
(c) “Disclosing Party Group” means the Disclosing Party and its Affiliates from time to
time;
(d) “Information” means:
(i) non-public information and material of whatever nature relating to the
Disclosing Party Group’s activities, undertakings, technology, know-how,
Intellectual Property Rights, assets, positions, strategy and products
(including, without limitation, information relating to management of the
Disclosing Party Group, financial information, marketing of the Disclosing
Party Group’s goods and/or services, commercial information, technical
information and other business affairs of the Disclosing Party Group and the
affairs and details of its current, former or prospective customers and
suppliers) and/or the Materials which are obtained by the Recipient or which
are provided to the Recipient either in writing or in pictorial or machine-
readable form or orally (provided that references in this sub-clause (i) to
Disclosing Party Group shall include any part of the Disclosing Party Group);
(ii) any reports, analyses, data, plans, compilations, studies and other
documents prepared by the Recipient, its employees, agents or advisers
which contain or otherwise reflect or are generated from any such
information as is specified in paragraph (i) above and the contents thereof;
and
(iii) the contents of this Agreement.
(e) “Intellectual Property Rights” means patents, trade marks, service marks, rights
(registered or unregistered) in any designs, applications for any of the foregoing,
trade or business names, copyright (including rights in computer software) and
topography rights, moral rights, know-how, secret formulae and processes, lists of
suppliers and customers and other proprietary knowledge and information, internet
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domain names, rights protecting goodwill and reputation, database rights and all
rights and forms of protection of a similar nature to any of the foregoing or having
equivalent effect anywhere in the world and all rights under licences and consents in
respect of any of the rights and forms of protection mentioned in this definition;
(f) “Materials” means media of any nature on which information is stored or represented;
(g) “Recipient” means the party receiving any Information; and
(h) “Recipient Group” means the Recipient and its Affiliates.
2. In consideration of Information being made accessible or available to the Recipient, any of the
Recipient’s Affiliates or any directors, officers, employees, advisers or agents of any of them,
the Recipient undertakes to the Disclosing Party as follows:
(a) the Recipient will use the Information only for the purpose of collaboration or trade
with the Disclosing Party Group and shall not otherwise use, disclose or exploit any of
the Information for its own or any other person’s gain, benefit or purpose and, in
particular but without limitation, it will not use any of the Information for commercial or
competitive purposes (whether direct or indirect);
(b) the Recipient will not (directly or indirectly) at any time, without the Disclosing Party’s
prior written consent, disclose or reveal or permit access to the Information, in whole
or in part, to any person other than its Affiliates, directors, officers, employees or
agents with a need to know in connection with the performance of the collaboration
or trade with the Disclosing Party Group and only where the relevant Affiliates,
directors, offices, employees, advisers or agents, are made aware that all Information
must be kept confidential in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;
(c) the Recipient will treat and safeguard as private and confidential all Information and
take reasonable steps necessary or desirable to maintain the confidentiality and
security of all Information received at any time by it;
(d) the Recipient will procure that any Affiliate, director, officer, employee or agent to
whom Information is disclosed complies with the terms of this Agreement; and
(e) the Recipient will not in any form or manner copy or reproduce or part with
possession of any Information or Materials or any other documents or other material
or data made available or disclosed to it or obtained by the Disclosing Party Group
except as consistent with its obligations under this Agreement.
3. All of the Information (including any Intellectual Property Rights in the Information) provided
by the Disclosing Party or its Affiliates shall remain the property of the Disclosing Party or its
Affiliates, as applicable. All rights in the Information and Materials (including, without
limitation, Intellectual Property Rights) are reserved by the Disclosing Party and its Affiliates
and no rights other than those expressly recited herein are granted to the Recipient or its
Affiliates under this Agreement. In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing, no licence is hereby granted by either party or its Affiliates to the other party or its
Affiliates either directly or indirectly in respect of:
(a) their respective existing Intellectual Property Rights or the Intellectual Property Rights
of any third party; or
(b) any Intellectual Property Rights created during the course of dealings between the
Recipient and its Affiliates and the Disclosing Party and its Affiliates.
4. If the Disclosing Party so requests in writing at any time, the Recipient will, at its own cost
and expense, forthwith return to the Disclosing Party or destroy (as selected by the
Disclosing Party) all Information and Materials in the possession or control of the Recipient
and/or its Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, advisers or agents,
Name: ______________________________________
Date: _____________________________________
Name: ______________________________________
Date: _____________________________________
By: _____________________________________
Name: _____________________________________
Title: _____________________________________
Date: _____________________________________
EFFECTIVE DATE:
COMPANY NAME:
REGISTERED OFFICE: