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  1. The material contained in this website is provided solely for informational purposes and is considered attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
  2. This information is not intended to create, and receipt of it does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship between you and Crowell & Moring LLP or any of its attorneys or an offer to create such an attorney-client relationship.
  3. Please do not send information to us that you consider confidential without first obtaining:
    1. a written statement from us that we represent you (a "retention letter"). or
    2. permission from one of the firm's attorney's to provide confidential information to us relating to a particular matter.
  4. The information in our website is not guaranteed to be correct, complete, or up-to-date. Case matters described are examples of experience that Crowell & Moring LLP lawyers have gained during and/or prior to their tenure with the firm. This website should not be relied upon or construed as legal advice. You should not act or elect not to act based upon this information without seeking professional counsel.
  5. Crowell & Moring LLP has its principal office in Washington, D.C. and maintains offices in California, New York, London, and Brussels. We do not wish to represent anyone as a result of their viewing of this website in any state in which this website may not comply with all applicable laws and ethical rules, or to represent anyone with respect to legal matters related to the laws of any state or country in which our lawyers are not admitted to practice law.
  6. This website may contain links to web sites not maintained by Crowell & Moring LLP. Crowell & Moring LLP is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site nor does inclusion of a link in our web site to another website imply recommendation, approval or endorsement by Crowell & Moring LLP of the site.

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Crowell & Moring LLP respects your privacy. You do not need to disclose any personal information in order to view this website. However, if you choose to subscribe to any newsletter, or request further information from any section of this site, we will not be able to process your request unless you provide us with your contact details.

Any information that you provide voluntarily will be used to process your request in Crowell & Moring LLP's offices in the United States or in Europe. We will not use or disclose your information except as stated in our Terms of Use. If you have requested that we add you to one or more of our distribution lists, you can update your information or request to be removed from the distribution list(s) by using the link included in each of our emails or by emailing us at DataPrivacy@crowell.com. For questions about our privacy and data security practices, contact us at DataPrivacy@crowell.com.

You have a right to a copy of the personal information which we hold about you, and you have a right to have that information amended if it is inaccurate. For further information about our privacy practices, please send an e-mail to website@crowell.com We will do our utmost to respond to your query within 14 days.

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Crowell & Moring uses the following cookies:

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Controlling Cookies

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This system is for the exclusive use of Crowell & Moring LLP users and authorized external entities. All unauthorized access is prohibited. By using this system, you agree to the following terms and conditions.

Use of this system is not intended to create or constitute an attorney-client relationship between you and Crowell & Moring LLP or any of its attorneys or an offer to create such an attorney-client relationship.

This system is monitored for security and troubleshooting purposes, all connections are logged and monitored by Crowell & Moring authorized administrators and may be retained for analysis. Metadata (including the name and email address of senders and recipients) regarding file transfers will be recorded and stored for not less than 6 months.

This system may contain sensitive, privileged, or otherwise protected material that is for the use of the authorized recipients only.

This system is intended as a transfer mechanism, not permanent storage. Documents uploaded to this system will be automatically deleted after a default period of 14 days.

As an external user of this system, you will protect the password you establish and will not share, post, or cause to be made known the credentials to your account. If you suspect your account has been compromised or your account used without your authorization, contact cybersecurity@crowell.com immediately. If you receive a document in error you agree that you will not access it and notify the sender immediately of the error.

Privacy Policy

This system is intended as a document transfer system between Crowell & Moring LLP users and external authorized entities. As an external entity, we collect your email address and name to identify you to the system in order to transfer files.

This information will be used to communicate with you only regarding file transfer to and from Crowell & Moring and for no other purpose.

This system will issue a cookie to your browser to maintain session state and will be removed when you log out of the system.

If you wish to close your account please contact netopsstaff@crowell.com. Your email address will be retained in logs to serve as evidence of file transfers that have occurred.