Employment Restrictive Covenant Disputes
Our team has a wide range of experience in helping you to manage risk factors in your business, such as protecting your customer data base and key talent. Our lawyers offer a prompt, reliable service for defending your business.
What is involved?
When it comes to managing risk factors in your business, such as protecting your customer data base and key talent, there are proactive steps you can take. Using our expertise we can help you from the outset, drafting enforceable restrictions, which will act as a deterrent, and should the need arise, on which our expert litigation team can rely, in order to robustly defend your business.
We have a wide range of experience in this area. Work has included bringing claims against former employees, enforcing terms of restrictive covenants in Sale and Purchase Agreements, issuing letters of action against individuals and their new employers, and obtaining injunctive relief to enforce non-poaching clauses. Our lawyers offer a prompt, reliable service for defending your business.
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Why choose our Employment Restrictive Covenant Disputes?
- Our team can offer a fixed fee review of your employment contracts to ensure that you have the highest level of protection
- If you have an ex-employee who you believe is in breach of their post-termination restrictions we can help by carrying out an assessment of the protection you have in place and advising on the merits of pursuing litigation against both the individual and their new employer
- Any delay in dealing with such issues may restrict the remedies available so, where necessary, action will be taken immediately
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James Hartley
Partner & National Head of Dispute Resolution
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- Claim against former employee who set up competing business whilst employed in breach of the terms of his contract of employment.
- Enforcing terms of a restrictive covenant in a Sale and Purchase Agreement against the outgoing director/shareholder.
- Issuing letters before action against an individual in breach of his restrictive covenants and to his new employer who had received a copy of the individual’s contract of employment.
- Obtaining injunctive relief in the High Court to enforce non-poaching clauses in an ex-employee’s contract of employment.
- Acting for a recruitment business in enforcing terms of a restrictive covenant against an ex-employee. Achieving an out of court settlement. This resulted in the ex-employee agreeing to abide by all restrictive covenants in his contract of employment and return our client’s property. We also obtained the transfer of his 35% shareholding (valued in excess of £600,000) back to our client.
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Philippa Dempster
Senior Partner & London Office Managing Partner
Richard Coates
Partner & Head of Automotive
James Hartley
Partner & National Head of Dispute Resolution
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