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The short version: Solon Press is an informal library of training workbooks written by practitioners for colleagues. The flagship M&A edition is free in full and every edition opens with a free first chapter. Until the end of 31 January 2027 the other editions are free with a free account (see Launch access); from 1 February 2027 they are offered together as the Library, by monthly subscription or a Year Pass. It is not a law school, not a licensed education provider, and absolutely not legal advice. The long version follows.
Effective 7 August 2026 Updated 9 October 2026Updated 1 December 2026
Solon Press (the “Site”) is an educational resource published and operated by Simple Digital Partners Ltd, a company incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus (the “Operator”, “we”, “us”). The Site publishes interactive training workbooks (each an “edition”) for practising lawyers and other professionals. By using the Site — reading its editions, taking its tests, or downloading any of its materials — you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Site. You can reach us at chief@solonpress.com.
Who we are. Simple Digital Partners Ltd, Sotiras, 2, Tziovani Building, Flat/Office 6, Paralimni, 5286, Famagusta, Cyprus. When you pay for anything on the Site: Sold by Paddle.com Market Ltd (merchant of record) for Simple Digital Partners Ltd, Sotiras, 2, Tziovani Building, Flat/Office 6, Paralimni, 5286, Famagusta, Cyprus, chief@solonpress.com.
The Operator is not a licensed or accredited educational institution in any jurisdiction. The Site and its editions:
Nothing on this Site is, or is intended to be, legal, financial, tax or other professional advice, and nothing on it creates a lawyer–client or other professional relationship between you and the Operator or any author. The content is general educational commentary, deliberately simplified for learners. Real matters turn on their own facts, documents and jurisdictions. Do not rely on this Site in connection with any actual transaction, dispute or decision. Always seek advice from a qualified professional instructed on the specific matter.
Care has been taken in preparing the materials, but the Operator does not claim comprehensive, complete or current knowledge of any area of law or practice, and makes no representation, warranty or guarantee — express or implied — as to the accuracy, completeness, currency or fitness for any purpose of anything on the Site. In particular: the content is a deliberate simplification; it is oriented mainly to the law of England and Wales (with incidental references to EU and other regimes) as generally understood at the time of writing; law and market practice change and the Site may not be updated; statements about “market practice” are generalisations on which reasonable practitioners differ; and the Site may contain errors. Treat everything here as a starting point for learning, never as an authority to cite.
The deals, companies, people, documents, regulator communications and fact patterns used in the editions — including Project Sunrise, its Share Purchase Agreement and its facility agreement — are entirely fictional and exist for teaching purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, companies or transactions is coincidental. The training documents are deliberately simplified specimens: they are not precedents or templates and must not be used, in whole or in part, in any real transaction. The training documents follow familiar market architectures but are original simplified texts written for this Site; the Site is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any trade association or standards body whose market practices its editions describe.
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The flagship M&A edition is free in full, and the first chapter of every edition is free to read. Until 31 January 2027 an edition may be offered for a one-time fee; from 1 February 2027 single editions are no longer sold, and the paid editions are offered together as the Library, by monthly subscription or a Year Pass, for individual readers, firms and universities. Whatever is offered, the price and what it buys are stated on the Site before you pay. Payments are processed by Paddle, acting as merchant of record: Paddle is the seller of what you buy for payment purposes, collects the price, applies any VAT or sales tax, and issues your receipt, and its buyer terms apply to the payment transaction. Your payment details go to Paddle and never reach the Operator. A one-time purchase of a single edition buys a personal, non-transferable right to access that edition through the Site for as long as the Site operates — the licence in section 6 continues to apply, and a purchase does not make the materials precedents, templates or advice. Access through the Library lasts only while a subscription or pass is in force; the Library's own terms will be added to this section before it goes on sale. Refunds are governed by our Refund Policy: in short, you can change your mind within 14 days. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable right you have under applicable consumer protection law.
This section says what is free, what each account keeps from the launch, and how the Library works. From 1 February 2027 single editions are no longer sold. The paid editions are offered together as the Library, by monthly subscription or a Year Pass, to individual readers (7.3) and to firms and universities (section 7A). Whatever is offered, the price and what it buys are stated on the Site before you pay. Payments are processed by Paddle, acting as merchant of record: Paddle is the seller of what you buy for payment purposes, collects the price, applies any VAT or sales tax, and issues your receipt, and its buyer terms apply to the payment transaction. Your payment details go to Paddle and never reach the Operator. Nothing in this section limits any non-waivable right you have under applicable consumer protection law.
7.1Free parts. The flagship M&A edition is free in full, and the first chapter and the glossary of every edition are free to read. You need no payment for them, and they stay free whatever else you buy or cancel.
7.2Launch access. Until the end of 31 January 2027 (UK time) every edition is free to read in full to anyone with a free account on the Site. What an account keeps after that depends on when it was opened:
An account is opened at the moment our account system records its creation. An edition is published on the day its chapters are first open to read on the Site; that is the date we record for it in our list of editions, and the edition's home page shows it. A title shown as forthcoming is not yet published. Launch access is permanent for that account: it continues for as long as the Site operates, on the same footing as an edition bought for a fee, and it cannot be withdrawn. It is personal to the account holder and not transferable, and the licence in section 6 applies to it. An account opened from 1 February 2027 gets no launch access; it reads the paid editions through the Library as described above. Launch access involves no payment, so the Refund Policy does not apply to it: refunds apply only to paid purchases.
This paragraph was changed on 9 October 2026 and the change applies from 15 October 2026. It takes nothing away from an account opened before then: such an account keeps every edition, as the earlier wording promised.
Effective 1 February 2027
What it gives you. Every edition in full, with its training document, tests, final exam, certificate and record of learning, and every new edition as it is published. If an edition is withdrawn, it leaves the Library. The law requires us to supply the Library as described; if it is not, your legal rights (the legal guarantee of conformity) apply, and nothing in these terms limits them.
The monthly plan. Paddle charges it, as merchant of record, and it renews every month until you cancel it. You can cancel at any time: from your account page, at solonpress.com/cancel, or from the link in Paddle's emails. Your access lasts to the end of the month you have paid for, and nothing more is charged. If a renewal payment fails, your access stays open for 14 days from the failed payment while you update your card.
The Year Pass. One payment for 12 months. It does not renew, and we email you 14 days before it ends. You can end it early for good cause. If the reason is good cause, the pass ends and we refund the unused part, counted in whole days. If we disagree, we tell you why within 5 working days. If you buy a Year Pass while a monthly plan runs, the pass starts when the month you have paid for ends, and the monthly plan stops then. Nothing more is charged for the monthly plan.
Your right to withdraw. Your access starts at once, or on the start date shown before you pay for a Year Pass bought during a monthly plan or another pass, because you ask for that when you pay. You can still withdraw within 14 days of the first payment of a monthly plan or a Year Pass: at solonpress.com/cancel#withdraw, by replying to the confirmation email, or with the model form in our Refund Policy. We then refund that payment in full, even if you have started reading. Withdrawing within 14 days is your legal right; the full refund after you have started reading is our addition to it. Our full 14-day right applies whatever wording the checkout shows. If you withdraw twice within six months, we ask you to write to us before you subscribe again. This never affects your right to withdraw.
Price changes. If we want to raise the monthly price, we will email you at least 30 days before the new price would apply, saying the new price and the date. The new price applies only if you agree to it on your account page. If you do not agree, your subscription ends at the end of the paid month before the new price would apply, and nothing more is charged.
When your access ends. Your progress, your certificates and the records of learning already issued stay with your account.
An edition you bought for a one-time fee before 1 February 2027 stays yours. The purchase gives you a personal, non-transferable right to read that edition on the Site for as long as the Site operates. The licence in section 6 still applies, and a purchase does not make the materials precedents, templates or advice. Refunds of those purchases follow our Refund Policy.
To read paid editions that your account does not keep, subscribe to the Library as described above.
Effective 1 February 2027
A business purchase. This section applies when a firm, university or other organisation buys the Library for its people. Before paying, the buyer ticks a box to confirm that they buy for an organisation, not as a private person, and that they accept this section. These are business contracts. The consumer right to withdraw within 14 days does not apply, and we do not refund a business purchase. If you are in fact a consumer who bought by mistake, tell us within 14 days of the first payment and we will refund you in full. Prices for organisations are shown plus VAT where it applies.
Seats. A firm buys a number of seats. Each seat is for one named reader, who joins with the firm's code from an account with a confirmed email address. The buyer joins with the code too, like everyone else. In any 30 days the firm may add at most as many new readers as it has seats. The firm's admin can remove a reader at any time, which frees the seat. The admin can also change the number of seats; Paddle charges or credits the change pro rata for the rest of the year.
Renewal and cancelling. The contract renews each year until it is cancelled. We email the admin 30 days before it renews. The admin can cancel from the group page or at solonpress.com/cancel; access then runs to the end of the paid year.
Paying by invoice. A first invoice is payable within 14 days, and a renewal invoice within 30 days. Access starts when the invoice is issued. If an invoice is not paid, your readers keep access for 30 days after it becomes overdue; after that we may suspend access until it is paid. If a first invoice is cancelled before it is paid, access ends.
What a firm sees. The firm's admin sees a supervisor overview of each reader in the group, as described in our Privacy Notice: the reader's name (or email address, if no name is set), the date they joined, how many chapter tests they have passed since then, whether they passed the final exam, and whether they hold a certificate and a record of learning. It never shows answers, scores, time spent or pages read. Readers are told this before they join, and they can leave at any time. The firm may use the overview only to supervise training. It must tell its staff that it does so, may not use the overview as the sole basis for decisions about them, and must delete exports when it no longer needs them.
Universities. A university licence covers every account on the university's verified email domains while the licence runs, except alumni and guest addresses under them (such as alumni.<university>). The university sees counts only, never names or progress. A count from 1 to 4 is shown as “fewer than 5”. Readers re-confirm their university address once a year, with a link we send when they ask for it on their account page.
How we handle your data — local storage, optional cloud accounts and progress sync — is described in our Privacy Notice, which forms part of these terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator excludes all liability for any loss or damage of any kind — direct, indirect or consequential, including loss of profit, business or reputation — arising out of or in connection with the use of, reliance on, or inability to use the Site or its content, whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise. Except for any edition you have paid for, the Site is provided free of charge and “as is”. A paid edition must match its description on the Site; beyond that it too is provided “as is”, and the Operator's total liability in connection with a paid edition is limited to the amount you paid for it.Effective 1 February 2027 Except for what you have paid for, the Site is provided free of charge and “as is”. What you pay for must match its description on the Site; beyond that it too is provided “as is”, and the Operator's total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or for that edition. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law, or any non-waivable consumer right.
The Operator may amend the Site or these terms at any time without notice.The Operator may amend the Site, and these terms as they apply to its free parts, at any time without notice. The version of these terms published on the Site at the time of your use applies to that use; a change to payment terms will not apply retroactively to a purchase already made, and an amendment will not remove your access to a paid edition you have already purchased except as provided in the Refund Policy, nor the launch access your account keeps under section 7. The change to launch access made on 9 October 2026 applies only to accounts opened from 15 October 2026.
Effective 1 February 2027 If you have a running subscription, Year Pass or group contract, we will email you at least 30 days before a change to these terms that affects it. A change that is to your disadvantage applies to it only from its next renewal, and you can cancel before then at no cost. A Year Pass keeps the terms it was bought under until it ends. We will not raise the price of a running subscription unless you agree to the new price; we will ask at least 30 days before it would apply.
These terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of them or the use of the Site, are governed by the law of the Republic of Cyprus, and the courts of the Republic of Cyprus have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute relating to them.
If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not take away the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. If you live in the United Kingdom, you may bring proceedings in the courts of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as applies to you. The exclusive jurisdiction above applies to business customers (section 7A).
In one sentence
Learn from this Site as much as you like — but check everything, cite nothing, rely on qualified professionals for real matters, and treat your scores here as a private measure of progress, not a credential.