Legal
Legal and Regulatory Notice
About us
“Arbor Law” is the trading name of Arbor Law Limited, a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 11547813.
Our registered office is:
Arbor Law Limited
20 North Audley Street
London W1K 6WE
United Kingdom
Regulatory authority
Arbor Law Limited is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (“SRA”) under number 654708.
The SRA’s rules can be accessed at https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/standards-regulations/.
Professional obligations
Arbor Law is bound by the legal, regulatory and professional obligations that apply to solicitors and to law firms regulated by the SRA, including the SRA Standards and Regulations, the SRA Principles and the SRA Code of Conduct for Firms and for Solicitors, RELs and RFLs.
Nothing in any arrangement with Arbor Law shall require us to act in a manner inconsistent with those obligations. Where compliance with our legal, regulatory or professional duties conflicts with an instruction or a contractual term, those duties prevail.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to decline instructions, suspend or cease acting, withdraw from a matter, or make disclosures to relevant authorities, in each case where required or permitted by law, regulation or professional duty. Where we do so, we will, so far as we are permitted, give you reasonable notice and an explanation, but our legal, regulatory or professional obligations may prevent us from doing so in some cases.
Professional titles
Arbor Law is not a partnership or limited liability partnership. Any reference to a “Partner” is a professional title only and refers to a member, consultant or employee of equivalent standing and qualifications within Arbor Law.
Complaints
We are committed to providing a high-quality legal service. If you are unhappy with any aspect of our service, please raise your concerns with us in the first instance so that we have an opportunity to put things right.
Our Complaints Policy sets out how to make a complaint, how we will handle it, the timescales that apply, and your rights to refer an unresolved complaint to the Legal Ombudsman or to report a concern about our professional conduct to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Price and service transparency
Information about our pricing and services for areas of work covered by the SRA Transparency Rules is set out in on our Pricing Transparency Statement and on the relevant service pages of this website.
Professional indemnity insurance
Arbor Law maintains professional indemnity insurance in accordance with the requirements of the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
Details of our compulsory professional indemnity insurance are available on request.
Value added tax
Arbor Law is registered for VAT purposes with VAT registration number GB 317161426.
Investment related activities
Arbor Law is not authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. We are regulated by the SRA, including in relation to any exempt regulated activities we may carry out under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and may undertake a limited range of investment-related activities that are incidental to our legal services and fall within an applicable exemption.
We do not provide investment advice. Nothing on this website is an invitation, inducement or recommendation to engage in investment activity, and clients should take advice from an FCA-authorised adviser where appropriate.
Data protection
For information about how we collect, use, store and share personal data, please see our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy.
Where personal data is transferred internationally, we take steps designed to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Anti-money laundering and sanctions
Arbor Law maintains anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and sanctions policies and procedures designed to comply with our legal, regulatory and professional obligations.
We carry out client due diligence before accepting instructions and on an ongoing basis. Checks may extend to clients, beneficial owners, directors, controllers, counterparties, source of funds and source of wealth, and may include identity verification, PEP and adverse media screening, sanctions screening and other risk-based checks on matters, transactions, jurisdictions and payment flows. We may request further information or documents at any stage.
Our obligations may require us to decline instructions, pause or stop work, or make a report to our Money Laundering Reporting Officer, the National Crime Agency, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, the SRA or another relevant authority.
These obligations may override duties of confidentiality and may prevent us from telling you whether a report has been made, or why work has been paused or stopped. We will not be liable for any consequences arising from any report made, or action taken, in good faith in accordance with our legal, regulatory or professional obligations.
Anti-bribery, corruption and tax evasion
Arbor Law has zero tolerance for bribery, corruption, facilitation payments, kickbacks, improper inducements, tax evasion and the facilitation of tax evasion, and maintains policies and procedures designed to comply with applicable legislation, including the Bribery Act 2010 and the Criminal Finances Act 2017.
Anyone acting for or on behalf of Arbor Law must act honestly and with integrity, and must not offer, request, accept or give anything of value where doing so could improperly influence a decision, secure an improper business advantage or compromise professional independence. We expect clients, suppliers and third parties to apply equivalent standards.
Attorney advertising
If and to the extent that material on this website is viewed in a jurisdiction where it may constitute attorney advertising, the following statement applies:
ATTORNEY ADVERTISING; PRIOR RESULTS DO NOT GUARANTEE A SIMILAR OUTCOME.
