Last revision 1 March 2026
These Terms of Use (hereinafter — the “Terms”) govern access to the website https://lockhartyip.com/ (hereinafter — the “Website”), operated by Ventos Arqueáveis Unipessoal Lda (NIPC 519153529), Portugal, operating under the LOCKHART & YIP brand, and the use of materials published on the Website.
By using the Website in any way — viewing pages, submitting the Discuss your matter form, sending a message or otherwise interacting with the Website — the Visitor confirms that they have read, fully accepted and undertake to comply with these Terms. If the Visitor does not agree with these Terms in whole or in part, the Visitor should refrain from using the Website.
The Website is an information resource of LOCKHART & YIP. It contains information on international and cross-border legal consulting, including disputes and arbitration, holding structures, M&A and transactions, private wealth, capital relocation, sanctions and AML, corporate consulting, tax positions, technology and Web3, case examples, analytical materials, fees and a contact form for potential clients.
The Website is an information platform and by itself does not enter into an engagement letter and does not guarantee any transactional, arbitration, restructuring, tax, banking, corporate or other result through a click-through interface. Engagement letters are entered into separately after a preliminary discussion between the Firm and the potential client.
Use of the Website, including submitting a request through the contact form, does not create an attorney-client (or lawyer-client) relationship between the Visitor and the Firm or any of its lawyers.
An attorney-client relationship arises only after: (a) the Firm has completed a conflict-of-interest check; (b) the parties have agreed the scope of the engagement; and (c) an engagement letter has been signed by both parties or the Firm has otherwise confirmed acceptance of the engagement in writing.
Before an engagement letter is entered into, any correspondence between the Visitor and the Firm — including through the Discuss your matter form, e-mail or other channels — is preliminary in nature. Such correspondence is not protected by attorney-client secrecy or professional legal privilege and is not privileged communication.
Visitors are advised not to transmit confidential or commercially sensitive information through the Discuss your matter form before entering into an engagement letter and establishing a confidentiality regime.
All materials published on the Website, including, among other things, articles in the “Insights” section, practice descriptions, jurisdiction notes, fee descriptions, glossary articles, descriptions of anonymised cases, presentations and other informational content (collectively — the “Materials”), are provided solely for informational and educational purposes.
The Materials are not legal, tax, corporate, regulatory, financial or investment advice in relation to the specific factual circumstances of any Visitor and should not be relied upon as such. Each specific situation requires an independent assessment by a qualified adviser, and matters of Hong Kong law require the involvement of local licensed firms.
The Firm makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and currency of the Materials as of the date of their publication. However, legislation, regulatory practice and case law evolve, and the Firm does not guarantee that the Materials remain accurate or applicable after the date of their publication.
The Website as a whole, as well as all Materials, design, graphic elements, text, photographs, fonts, source code, databases and other intellectual property and means of individualisation (including the designation “LOCKHART & YIP”), belong to the Firm or are lawfully used by the Firm. All rights reserved.
Visitors are permitted to: (a) view the Website and the Materials for personal non-commercial purposes; and (b) reproduce limited excerpts from the Materials for the purposes of fair quotation, provided that the source is clearly indicated and an active hyperlink to the relevant page of the Website is included.
Without the Firm’s prior written consent, Visitors may not: (a) reproduce, copy, distribute or publicly display the Materials or any other elements of the Website for commercial purposes; (b) use the designation “LOCKHART & YIP” or any other means of individualisation of the Firm; (c) create derivative works based on the Materials; (d) use the Website or the Materials to train artificial-intelligence models, machine-learning systems or any other automated systems; or (e) carry out automated data collection from the Website (scraping, crawling), except for search-engine activity within the limits established by the robots.txt file.
When using the Website, the Visitor undertakes:
• not to take any actions aimed at disrupting the operation of the Website, its components or server infrastructure;
• not to attempt to gain unauthorised access to restricted sections of the Website, user accounts or technical data;
• not to use the Website to distribute malicious software, spam, phishing materials or any other unlawful content;
not submit through the Discuss your matter form or other interactive elements knowingly false, offensive or unlawful information, as well as information concerning third parties, without the necessary legal grounds;
• to comply with applicable law.
The Website contains a “Discuss your matter” contact form through which preliminary requests may be submitted. Submission of a request is a request to the Firm to assess the possibility of providing services. Receipt of a request by the Firm does not mean automatic acceptance of the matter and does not give rise to any obligation of the Firm to provide services.
The Firm decides whether to accept or reject a request at its sole discretion, taking into account the results of conflict-of-interest checks, fit with the practice, availability of resources and other circumstances.
Personal data submitted through the Discuss your matter form are processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy (published at https://lockhartyip.com/privacy).
The Website uses cookies and may use web analytics. Detailed information about cookies and how to manage them is provided in the Cookie Policy: https://lockhartyip.com/cookies.
The Website may contain links to websites and resources operated by third parties (legal directories, professional associations, press publications, partner services and other external resources). Such links are provided solely for the Visitor’s convenience and do not mean that the Firm endorses the content of those resources.
The Firm does not control third-party resources and is not responsible for their availability, the accuracy or currency of their content, their data-processing policies or any other aspect of their operation. Use of third-party resources is at the Visitor’s own risk and is governed by the terms and policies of those resources.
Descriptions of typical cases and case-register entries are published in summary form and, where necessary, in anonymised form. Client identities, jurisdictions, counterparties, recovery figures and other confidential details are disclosed only with the consent of the relevant client.
Descriptions of past cases do not guarantee a similar outcome in the future, since each case is assessed individually.
The Firm advises on international and foreign law and, when a matter involves Hong Kong law, courts, licensing, registries or notarisation, works together with local licensed Hong Kong firms and other professional advisers.
Use of the Website does not constitute the provision of legal services in the Visitor’s country of residence or the practice of Hong Kong law by the Website operator.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Firm is not liable to any Visitor for direct or indirect losses, lost profits, reputational harm or other losses arising in connection with: (a) use of or inability to use the Website; (b) reliance on the Materials when making any decisions; (c) technical failures, unavailability of the Website or loss or corruption of data during transmission; or (d) acts or omissions of third parties, including communications service providers, hosting providers and analytics-service providers.
The Website is provided on an “as is” basis. The Firm gives no express or implied warranties of uninterrupted operation of the Website, its fitness for the Visitor’s particular purpose or absence of errors.
The Firm may unilaterally amend these Terms of Use. The current version is always available at https://lockhartyip.com/terms. The date of the last revision is indicated at the top of this document. Continued use of the Website after publication of the updated version of these Terms of Use means the Visitor’s acceptance of that version.
These Terms and any relationship between the Firm and the Visitor arising in connection with use of the Website are governed by applicable law.
Any disputes arising in connection with use of the Website are subject to resolution through negotiations. If pre-trial settlement is not achieved, disputes are referred to the competent court determined in accordance with applicable law, unless mandatory provisions of applicable law require otherwise.
If any provision of these Terms is found by a court to be invalid or unenforceable, the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions are not affected. Any invalid provision is replaced by a provision that most closely reflects the original intent and complies with applicable law.
Any failure by the Firm to take measures to enforce any provision of these Terms in the event of its breach by the Visitor does not constitute a waiver of the Firm’s rights in relation to such breach or any future breach.
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between the Firm and the Visitor with respect to use of the Website and supersede any previous arrangements on the same subject matter.
Questions relating to these Terms may be sent to the operator of the Website:
Ventos Arqueáveis Unipessoal Lda (LOCKHART & YIP brand)
Postal address: Lisbon, Portugal
Office: Lisbon, Portugal
Business hours: Mon-Fri, 09:00-18:00 WET
E-mail: info@lockhartyip.com