The person by whom a confidentiality obligation is owed. A confidentiality arrangement is nationally and a symmetrical one, which will prompt fears in the brow of the diligent legal eagle confronted with such a tract that it is therefore somehow one-sided.
A neat negotiation hack to dissuade this kind of thinking is to make the confidentiality agreement mutual even when, in point of actual fact, the parties only really anticipate the flow of confidential information going one way. It is a small and patently fatuous thing, but it does seem to work.
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