Legal Notice

Theseus Partners LLP (trading as “Theseus”) is a limited liability partnership registered in England with registered office at 42 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5AW, United Kingdom and company number OC458042.

The information on this website is for general information purposes only and does not claim to be comprehensive or provide legal or other advice. Theseus (“we”, “us”, “our”) accepts no responsibility for loss which may arise from accessing or reliance on information contained on this website and are not responsible for the content of external internet sites that link to this website or which are linked from it.

Anti-bribery and corruption

It is our policy to always act in accordance with the highest professional, ethical and business standards, and we expect the same from our clients and their related persons, entities or affiliates. Per our Terms of Business, we have a zero-tolerance approach to bribery or corruption and you agree not to expect or request any conduct from us that might bring our name into disrepute or compromise our integrity and independence.

Nature of services, and Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

The advice which we provide is confined to legal advice. We do not advise on the merits of financial products or investment transactions and no communication from us should be treated as an invitation for you to engage in regulated investment activity of any description.

Theseus is not authorised to provide clients any service that constitutes a regulated activity under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“FMSA”), unless an exemption applies or in the case of reserved legal activities as defined in section 12 of the Legal Services Act 2007.

Some of our partners are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (“SRA”) or subject to the Bar Standards Board Handbook and related conduct rules in the United Kingdom. The Law Society is a designated professional body for the purposes of FSMA, but responsibility for regulation and complaints handling has been separated from the Law Society’s representative functions. The SRA is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society and the Legal Ombudsman deals with complaints about lawyers registered in England and Wales. In light of this, we can provide investment-related services if they are an incidental part of the professional services we have been engaged to provide, if they can reasonably be regarded as a necessary part of our professional services or if we are otherwise permitted to provide them under FSMA.

The services we provide do not constitute reserved legal activities as defined in section 12 of the Legal Services Act 2007 and therefore client do not benefit from certain protections under applicable law, including, without limitation:

the work carried on by Theseus is not regulated by the SRA;
clients of Theseus do not have a right to apply for a grant to be made out of the Solicitors’ Compensation Fund;
Theseus is not required to hold professional indemnity insurance that complies with the SRA’s minimum terms and conditions;
the advice provided by Theseus may not be covered by legal professional privilege; and
the protections in the SRA Accounts Rules in relation to client money do not apply to Theseus.

Managing complaints

If you wish to make a complaint about us then, in the first instance, please contact the person with whom you are working or corresponding to set out your concerns. We will do our best to resolve any issues at this stage and, if applicable, will confirm our complaints handling procedure in writing (which is available to clients at any time on request).

If we are unable to resolve your complaint, you may refer to the Legal Ombudsman.

Website: www.legalombudsman.co.uk

Email: enquiries@legalombudsman.org.uk

Telephone: 0300 555 0333

Address: PO Box 6806, Wolverhampton WV1 9WJ

If you do wish to refer a complaint to the Legal Ombudsman, it should be done within six months of our final response to your complaint and within one year of the act or omission that caused the complaint or, if outside this period, within one year of when you should reasonably have known about the relevant act or omission.

The Legal Ombudsman may refer your complaint to the SRA if they are not the correct body to consider the matter, as the Legal Ombudsman’s services are only available for certain types of complaints and complainants. Further details can be found on the Legal Ombudsman’s website and on the SRA’s website.

Note also that if your complaint is about our invoices, you may also apply to the court for an assessment of the bill under Part III of the Solicitors’ Act 1974. If all or part of any bill remains unpaid, we may be entitled to charge interest.