Terms of Business

1. About us

Veloralegal Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales, company number 16481937, registered office Jarodale House, 7 Gregory Boulevard, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6LB, United Kingdom. We operate across London and the East Midlands, and deliver briefs nationally and internationally.

In these terms, "we", "us", and "our" mean Veloralegal Ltd, and "you" or "the Client" means the person or organisation engaging us.

All correspondence: princemwatela@veloralegal.com

2. Nature of our services

We are a business execution and delivery firm. We take ownership of specified briefs and deliver them, either directly or through independent specialists engaged by us.

We are not a law firm. We are not authorised or regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority or any approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007. We do not provide legal advice and we do not carry on any reserved legal activity. Where a brief requires legal advice, you must obtain it separately from a suitably authorised person.

We do not provide financial, investment, tax, or regulatory advice.

3. How an engagement begins

You submit a brief. We confirm whether we accept it. We may decline any brief at our discretion and without giving reasons.

Where we accept, we issue a written engagement confirmation setting out the scope, the deliverables, the timeline, and the fee. An engagement begins only when you confirm that document in writing. Nothing said in preliminary discussion creates a binding obligation on either side.

These terms apply to every engagement and take precedence over any purchase order, supplier terms, or standard conditions you issue, unless we agree otherwise in writing.

4. Scope

The engagement confirmation defines the work. Anything not stated in it is outside scope.

If you want to change the scope, tell us in writing. We will confirm whether we can accommodate it and what it changes about the fee or the timeline. We will not carry out additional work, and you will not be charged for it, without written agreement from both sides.

5. Our specialists

We deliver briefs through a network of independent specialists, contractors, and professionals. We select and engage them. They are engaged by us, not by you, and we remain responsible to you for the delivery of the brief.

We are not an employment business. Where a brief involves introducing a candidate to you for you to engage directly, that arrangement is governed by a separate introduction agreement. We do not charge any fee to a work-seeker at any time.

6. Non-circumvention

For twelve months from the end of an engagement, you agree not to engage directly, or through any associated entity, any specialist we introduced to you in connection with that engagement, without our written consent.

This does not apply to anyone you already had a relationship with before we introduced them, and it does not restrict anyone's freedom to work. It protects the relationship value that is the substance of what you are paying us for.

If this clause is breached, a fee equal to thirty percent of the specialist's first twelve months of engagement value becomes payable to us.

7. Your responsibilities

You agree to give us accurate and complete information, to provide access, materials, and decisions in reasonable time, and to nominate one person with authority to approve scope and sign off deliverables.

Where a delay is caused by you, we are not liable for the resulting effect on the timeline, and we may adjust the fee to reflect additional time incurred.

8. Fees and payment

Fees are as stated in the engagement confirmation. Unless stated otherwise, fees are fixed for the agreed scope.

Where a deposit is stated, it is payable before work begins and is non-refundable once we have started, save where we terminate under clause 12.

Invoices are payable within fourteen days of issue unless the engagement confirmation says otherwise.

All fees are exclusive of VAT, which will be added where applicable. Expenses are charged at cost and only where agreed in advance.

Late payment carries interest and compensation under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998. We may suspend work on any engagement while an invoice is overdue.

9. Confidentiality

Each of us agrees to keep the other's confidential information confidential, to use it only for the purposes of the engagement, and to return or destroy it on request.

We engage every specialist under written confidentiality terms before any of your information is shared with them.

Confidentiality does not apply to information that is already public, that was already lawfully held, or that we are required to disclose by law or by a regulator. These obligations continue after the engagement ends.

We will not name you, reference the engagement, or use it as a case study without your written permission.

10. Intellectual property

Deliverables created specifically for you under an engagement become your property once we have been paid in full for that engagement.

We retain ownership of our own methods, templates, tools, systems, and know-how, including anything of that kind developed or refined during the engagement. Nothing in these terms transfers those to you.

You retain ownership of everything you provide to us, and you grant us a licence to use it for the purposes of delivering the brief.

11. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

Subject to that, our total liability in connection with an engagement is limited to the fees paid by you for that engagement.

We are not liable for loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business or opportunity, loss of goodwill, or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.

We are not liable for the acts or omissions of any third party you engage directly, including a specialist you continue to use after an engagement ends.

You accept that these limits are reasonable given the fees charged and that you are able to insure against the risks they leave with you.

12. Ending an engagement

Either of us may end an engagement by giving fourteen days written notice.

Either of us may end an engagement immediately if the other commits a material breach that is not remedied within fourteen days of written notice, or becomes insolvent.

On termination, you pay for all work carried out and all commitments we have properly made to specialists up to the date of termination. Clauses on confidentiality, non-circumvention, intellectual property, liability, and payment survive termination.

13. Data protection

Each of us will comply with UK data protection law. How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy at veloralegal.com/privacy.

Where we process personal data on your behalf as part of a brief, we will agree written processing terms before that processing begins.

14. Anti-bribery, sanctions, and financial crime

Each of us will comply with the Bribery Act 2010, applicable anti-money laundering law, and applicable financial sanctions.

We may decline or terminate any engagement where we consider that proceeding would breach sanctions or any other applicable law, and we will not be liable for doing so.

15. Force majeure

Neither of us is liable for failure to perform caused by events outside reasonable control. Where such an event continues for more than thirty days, either of us may terminate the affected engagement.

16. General

These terms, together with the engagement confirmation, form the entire agreement between us on the engagement, and supersede anything discussed beforehand.

Neither of us may assign or subcontract our obligations without the other's written consent, except that we may engage specialists as set out in clause 5.

No third party has rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.

A failure to enforce any term is not a waiver of it.

17. Governing law

These terms and any dispute arising from them are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

18. Contact

Questions on these terms: princemwatela@veloralegal.com