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Norton Rose Fulbright Australia FinTech and InsurTech Virtual Legal Clinics
Terms and Conditions

  1. Thank you for your interest in participating in the Virtual FinTech and Insurtech Legal Clinics, provided by Norton Rose Fulbright Australia (NRFA) (the Legal Clinics).
  2. These terms and conditions set out the terms which govern your application for, and (if successful), your participation in the Legal Clinics. By applying for a place at the Legal Clinics, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions on your own behalf and on behalf of the start-up, enterprise or other entity you represent (your start-up).
  3. The Legal Clinics are clinics for FinTech and InsurTech start-ups and scale-ups to obtain high level commentary from NRFA on legal and regulatory best practice and possible hurdles and traps in FinTech and InsurTech business. Applicants who are selected to participate in the Legal Clinics will be contacted in writing prior to the Legal Clinics taking place to confirm their place. NRFA will be under no obligation to select any applicant regardless of any publicised entry criteria.
  4. NRFA will arrange time slots with selected applicants to attend the Legal Clinics. These timeslots will be made available at our discretion.  The manner in which the Legal Clinics are conducted will be at our discretion.
  5. NRFA will conduct the Legal Clinics on a no-fee basis which means we will not charge you in respect of your participation in these clinics.
  6. Neither your selection nor your participation in the Legal Clinics will create or evidence a solicitor-client relationship between you and your start-up on the one hand and NRFA on the other. Your choice of lawyers for legal work will be unaffected and NRFA’s choice of clients will similarly be unaffected by your participation in NRFA’s Legal Clinics.
  7. Any commentary given at the Legal Clinics will be based on general principles only.  This includes any feedback or comments made by NRFA in or outside of the Legal Clinics.   Such commentary is for information purposes only and should not be relied on by you, or any third person, without first obtaining separate legal advice that takes into account all of your circumstances and verifies the applicability of NRFA’s commentary.
  8. Your participation in the Legal Clinics will be subject to any conflicts and compliance requirements NRFA has.
  9. NRFA will not comment on any tax matters.
  10. NRFA will comment in respect of Australian law only.
  11. NRFA makes no commitment to provide future support as a result of your participation in the Legal Clinics.
  12. By participating in the Legal Clinics, you and your start-up accept that any information presented by you as part of the Legal Clinics will not be confidential. However, NRFA will not publicise your application or participation in the Legal Clinics without your consent.
  13. Unless you instruct us in writing to the contrary, NRFA will share information, including the information you provide to us, with the current and prospective member firms of Norton Rose Fulbright.
  14. You consent to NRFA using and processing your personal data for the purpose of organising and running the Legal Clinics and – to the extent you give your consent - the publishing, promoting and sharing of the materials related to the Legal Clinics. In so doing you acknowledge that your personal data may be transferred to locations around the world and made publicly available as described above.
  15. NRFA reserves the right to amend or cancel the Legal Clinics and/or amend these terms at any time and for any reason.
  16. Neither you nor your start-up will be on-boarded as a client of NRFA as part of the Legal Clinics.  Should you or your start-up become a client of NRFA, we will offer to enter into a formal engagement letter and costs agreement with you or your start-up (as the case may be) including providing  information which we are required to disclose under legal profession rules. .
  17. You and your start-up will keep any information that you learn about NRFA during or as a result of your participation in the Legal Clinics confidential (Confidential Information). You will only use the Confidential Information as required to participate in the Legal Clinics or within your organisation on a confidential basis or to comply with these terms and conditions. Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, any information about NRFA products, IT systems or software code. Confidential Information does not include any information which is publicly available or which you already knew.
  18. Each applicant agrees for themselves and their start-up that none of NRFA, its partners, members, directors and employees is or will  be liable, whether together or separately, for any loss, damage, delay or injury whatsoever (whether direct, indirect, consequential or future and whether or not reasonably foreseeable, contemplatable or actually contemplated by the parties) sustained by the applicant arising out of or in any way connected with the Legal Clinics, with the exception that NRFA does not purport to exclude liability in respect of: (i) death or personal injury as a result of any negligence; (ii) fraud or fraudulent statements; and (iii) any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under Australian law. Each applicant agrees that to the extent any liability or obligation of NRFA is expressed to be limited or excluded pursuant to the provisions of these terms and conditions, such limitations or exclusions shall to the extent permitted by applicable law or regulation, also apply to Norton Rose Fulbright.
  19. Only you or NRFA will be able to enforce rights or benefits under these terms and conditions.
  20. A waiver of any right or remedy under the terms and conditions or at law is only effective if given by written notice. No failure or delay by you or NRFA to exercise any right or remedy provided under these terms and conditions or at law will constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy.
  21. If any provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction in connection with its performance, such provision will be deemed deleted to the minimum extent necessary in the relevant jurisdiction (which can include deleting only part of the relevant provision).
  22. These terms and conditions (and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New South Wales, Australian and applicants agree for themselves and their start-up to submit any dispute arising out of or in connection with them to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New South Wales and of the Commonwealth of Australia. In these terms and conditions Norton Rose Fulbright means the Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, the member firms of the Norton Rose Fulbright Verein (Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Inc and Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP), and Norton Rose Fulbright Development Holdings Limited, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia Services Pty Ltd, Services OR LP/SEC a limited partnership established in Canada, and in every case their respective affiliates or subsidiaries.