To enter the investor zone, please read and confirm your acceptance of the following legal confidentiality notice. You will only be asked to read this notice once.
Legal confidentiality notice - extract from limited partnership agreements
Limited partners shall not, and shall use all reasonable endeavours to procure that every person connected with or associated with each such limited partner shall not disclose to any person, firm or corporation or use to the detriment of the Candover partnership or any of the partners any confidential information which may have come to his or its knowledge as a result of being a limited partner in the partnership concerning:
1. the affairs of the partnership; or
2. any of the partners (or their associates); or
3. concerning any proposed or actual investment by the partnership unless required to do so by law or by the regulations of any relevant stock exchange or other regulatory authority to the rules and regulations of which he or it is subject, provided that a limited partner which is the trustee of a unit trust or which is itself a collective investment scheme or other fund vehicle shall not with standing this clause be entitled to communicate information regarding the partnership and investments or proposed investments to its investors from time to time if required to do so under the terms of the unit trust deed or other constitutional documents relating to such collective investment scheme or fund vehicle or such disclosure is typically of a type and nature made or contemplated to be made as a matter of course in relation to investment funds in which the investor invests provided that it shall remind investors of the need to respect confidentiality where this is appropriate and practicable (for instance by marking relevant materials "confidential" or with words to that effect).
This obligation shall not apply to any information which is publicly available or is received from sources other than the general partner or any limited partner or any director officer employee or agent of either thereof and in all such cases is not so received subject to any obligation of confidentiality and, notwithstanding this clause, a limited partner shall be entitled to disclose such information to (i) its directors officers employees and professional consultants and those of its associates who are not at the relevant time engaging in any business which competes with that of the general partner or any of its associates, (ii) any other limited partner, or (iii) any person to which it offers or contemplates (on a bona fide basis) offering or engages in bona fide discussions in order to sell or sells all or any part of its limited partnership interest, subject to any such person agreeing to be subject to the confidentiality obligations in this clause.