NDA drafting services built to hold up in a UK court

Three to five years from the date you share the information is the usual range, and it covers most commercial situations. Genuine trade secrets, a formula, source code, a pricing model, can be protected for longer, sometimes indefinitely. But a blanket 'forever' NDA on ordinary business information tends to get struck down as unreasonable. We set a duration that fits what you are actually protecting, so it holds up instead of overreaching.

If the terms are reasonable, you have real options. A court can order the other side to stop using or sharing the information, you can claim damages (money to cover your loss), and where they profited from the leak, you can ask them to hand that profit over. None of it works smoothly unless the NDA names the governing law and jurisdiction up front, which is one more thing off-the-shelf templates tend to skip.

Yes, but only if it is drafted for it. A cross-border NDA needs a clear governing-law clause, a chosen place for settling disputes, and wording that stands up in the other side's legal system, not just ours. We draft NDAs that hold up in UK courts and stay enforceable against US and EU counterparties, rather than assuming a UK template will travel.

Our NDA drafting service returns standard one-way and mutual NDAs within 48 hours of your brief. Bespoke agreements for regulated or unusual situations, healthcare data, financial services, deep tech, take about a week. On the Premium Plus plan, standard NDAs are unlimited; bespoke work is quoted per matter so there are no surprises.

Our NDA drafting services are fixed-fee, not hourly: your work sits inside a monthly plan at £129, £250 or £499, billed rolling with no long tie-in, so one NDA never becomes an open-ended bill. Want an NDA quote first? Ask, and you will have the price before we start. Standard one-way and mutual NDAs are covered by your plan; genuinely bespoke agreements are quoted per matter. It is all handled online for founders across the UK, with our team based in London, and every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Sometimes, for something very low-risk, a free template is fine. The trouble is that off-the-shelf wording is written for no one in particular. It tends to define confidential information too loosely, leave the duration vague, and skip the governing-law clause that makes the thing enforceable, and you only notice once a deal has already gone wrong. We draft around your actual situation and explain every clause, so you know what you are signing. If the other side sends you theirs, our NDA review checks it before you sign, so you are not agreeing to wording an NDA lawyer wrote to suit them. For a full-blown dispute you may still need a solicitor, and we will say so plainly rather than take you past what we do.

Yes, a properly drafted NDA is a binding contract and UK courts will enforce it, as long as the terms are reasonable. That is the catch: an NDA that is too broad, lasts unreasonably long, or tries to gag something the law protects can be cut down or thrown out. And no NDA, however well drafted, can stop someone reporting a crime or serious wrongdoing in the public interest. Get the scope and duration right and it stands up; overreach and it may not. The wording does the work, not the signature.