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Non-Disclosure Agreement

Version 2.0 · Effective date 11 September 2026

In plain terms

  • Keep everything you learn through the Deal Room confidential.
  • Use it only to assess a possible transaction.
  • You can share it with advisers and staff who need it, if they keep it confidential too.
  • Obligations last during membership and for 3 years after it ends.

This summary helps you understand the document. The full text below is the binding version.

1. Parties

This Agreement is between African Business Trade Association Limited (company number 16401954), whose registered office is at Fifth Floor, 167–169 Great Portland Street, London, England, W1W 5PF (“ABTA”, “we”, “us”) and the Member named in the Member’s account. Terms defined in the Platform Membership Agreement have the same meaning here.

2. Confidential information

“Confidential Information” means all information made available through the Platform or by ABTA in connection with it, including Teasers, the identity of any party, financial information, documents, Q&A responses and the terms of any proposed Transaction, in any form.

3. Purpose and obligations

  1. The Member will use Confidential Information only to evaluate and negotiate a possible Transaction (the “Purpose”).
  2. The Member will keep Confidential Information secure, using at least the care it uses for its own confidential information and no less than reasonable care.
  3. The Member will not disclose Confidential Information except as allowed in clause 4.
  4. The Member will not attempt to identify any party to a Teaser, or contact any such party, other than through ABTA.
  5. The Member will tell ABTA promptly if it becomes aware of any unauthorised use or disclosure.

4. Permitted disclosure

  1. The Member may disclose Confidential Information to its employees, officers, professional advisers and financing sources who need it for the Purpose and who are bound by confidentiality duties no less protective than this Agreement. The Member is responsible for their compliance.
  2. The Member may disclose Confidential Information if required by law, regulation or a court, after telling ABTA where lawful.

5. Exclusions

This Agreement does not apply to information that is or becomes public other than through breach, was lawfully known to the Member before disclosure, is lawfully received from a third party without a duty of confidence, or is independently developed without use of Confidential Information.

6. Return and destruction

On request, or when membership ends, the Member will delete or return Confidential Information, except copies it must keep by law or that are held in routine back-ups, which remain subject to this Agreement.

7. Remedies

Damages may not be an adequate remedy for breach. ABTA and any affected party may seek an injunction or other equitable relief in addition to any other remedy.

8. Third party rights

  1. A party whose Confidential Information is made available through the Platform (a “Disclosing Party”) may enforce clauses 3, 4, 6 and 7 against the Member under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
  2. No other person has any right to enforce any term of this Agreement.
  3. ABTA and the Member may vary or end this Agreement without the consent of any Disclosing Party. This does not affect any rights that have already arisen.

9. Term

This Agreement applies during membership and for 3 years after membership ends.

10. Governing law and disputes

This Agreement is governed by the law of England and Wales. Disputes are resolved under the dispute resolution clause of the Platform Membership Agreement.