Competition (Antitrust) Clause Samples

Competition (Antitrust). (a) To the Sellers’ knowledge, no Acquired Entity or Affiliates is, or has been, a party to any agreement, arrangement, understanding or concerted practice: (i) which infringes, or has infringed, any applicable competition law; (ii) in respect of which any filing, registration or notification is or was required by, or is or, was advisable pursuant to, any applicable competition law (whether or not the same has in fact been made); (iii) which is, or was, the subject of a notice of investigation under any applicable competition law; or (iv) in connection with which it has been subject to an order or directions or has given any undertakings or commitments or assurances under any applicable competition law. (b) To the Sellers’ knowledge, there is, and has been, no aspect of the conduct of the business of any Acquired Entity or Affiliates (including refusals or omissions to act, and actions which constitute or may give rise to a concentration, merger or similar transaction) in respect of which any of Sections 3.34(a)(i) to (a)(iv) applies. (c) No Acquired Entity or Affiliates has any reason to believe that any action or investigation under any applicable competition law will be taken against any of them in relation to any of their current activities. (d) For the purposes of this Section 3.34, the term “applicable competition law” means all competition laws applicable to the business of any Acquired Entity or Affiliates, whether of the United Kingdom, the European Union or any other jurisdiction, and includes (but is not limited to) any applicable rules dealing with anti-competitive agreements, arrangements or practices, abuse of dominant position, state aid, public procurement, merger control, or anti-dumping, and the requirements of any special regulatory regime to which any Acquired Entity or Affiliates is be subject in any area of its activities.
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  • Competition Act Neither the aggregate value of the assets in Canada of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and any corporations that it controls, nor the aggregate gross revenues from sales in or from Canada generated from those assets, as determined in accordance with subsection 110(3) of the Competition Act exceed $80,000,000.

  • Antitrust Contractor hereby irrevocably assigns to the State of Connecticut all rights, title and interest in and to all Claims associated with this Contract that Contractor now has or may or will have and that arise under the antitrust laws of the United States, 15 USC Section 1, et seq. and the antitrust laws of the State of Connecticut, Connecticut General Statute § 35-24, et seq., including but not limited to any and all Claims for overcharges. This assignment shall become valid and effective immediately upon the accrual of a Claim without any further action or acknowledgment by the parties.

  • Confidentiality, Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation Employee agrees, as a condition to Employee’s employment with the Company, to execute the Company’s standard form of Employee Non-Disclosure, Invention Release and Non-Competition Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A.

  • Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation As an essential ingredient of, and in consideration of the substantial severance benefits provided pursuant to this Agreement in addition to the Executive’s employment, or continued employment, with the Employer, the Executive shall not, during the Restricted Period, directly or indirectly do any of the following: (i) Engage or invest in, own, manage, operate, finance, control, participate in the ownership, management, operation, or control of, be employed by, associated with, or in any manner connected with, serve as a director, officer, or consultant to, lend the Executive’s name or any similar name to, lend the Executive’s credit to or render services or advice to, any Financial Institution with an office located, or to be located at an address identified in a filing with any regulatory authority, within the Restricted Area; provided, however, that the ownership by the Executive of shares of the capital stock of any Financial Institution, which shares are listed on a securities exchange and that do not represent more than 1% of the institution’s outstanding capital stock, shall not violate any terms of this Agreement. For purposes of clarification and not limitation or expansion, it is the parties intent that the foregoing is not intended to limit Executive from performing services outside of the Restricted Area for a person or entity solely because the person or entity has a location within the Restricted Area, unless Executive’s services are directed towards activities on behalf of such person or entity within the Restricted Area; (ii) (A) Hire, or induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Employer or its Affiliates (limited to all officer-level employees, Executive’s direct reports, or members of Executive’s department or area of responsibility) to leave the employ of the Employer or its Affiliates; (B) interfere with the relationship between the Employer or its Affiliates and any such employee of the Employer or its Affiliates; or (C) induce or attempt to induce any customer, supplier, licensee, or other business relation of the Employer or its Affiliates with whom the Executive had an ongoing business relationship while employed by the Employer or its Affiliates to cease doing business with the Employer or its Affiliates or interfere with the relationship between the Employer its Affiliates and their respective customers, suppliers, licensees, or other business relations with whom the Executive had an ongoing business relationship. (iii) Solicit the business of any person or entity known to the Executive to be a customer of the Employer or its Affiliates, where the Executive, or any person reporting to the Executive, had accessed Confidential Information of, had an ongoing business relationship with while employed by the Employer of its Affiliates, or had made Substantial Business Efforts with respect to, such person or entity, with respect to products, activities, or services that compete in whole or in part with the products, activities, or services of the Employer its Affiliates.

  • Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Executive and the Company agree that the Company would suffer irreparable harm and incur substantial damage if Executive were to enter into Competition (as defined herein) with the Company. Therefore, in order for the Company to protect its legitimate business interests, Executive agrees as follows: (i) Without the prior written consent of the Company, Executive shall not, during the period of employment with the Company, directly or indirectly, invest or engage in any business that is Competitive (as defined herein) with the Business of the Company or accept employment or render services to a Competitor (as defined herein) of the Company as a director, officer, agent, employee or consultant or solicit or attempt to solicit or accept business that is Competitive with the Business of the Company, except that Executive may own up to five percent (5%) of any outstanding class of securities of any company registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; provided, however, the Company acknowledges that Executive currently engages in a number of activities set forth on Exhibit B as long as such permitted activities do not have a material adverse effect on the Executive’s performance or this Agreement. (ii) Without the prior written consent of the Company and upon any termination of Executive’s employment with the Company and for a period of twelve (12) months thereafter, Executive shall not, either directly or indirectly, (x) invest or engage in any business that is Competitive (as defined herein) with the Business of the Company, except that Executive may own up to five percent (5%) of any outstanding class of securities of any company registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (y) accept employment with or render services to a Competitor of the Company as a director, officer, agent, employee or consultant unless he is serving in a capacity that has no relationship to that portion of the Competitor’s business that is Competitive with the Business of the Company, or (z) solicit, attempt to solicit or accept business Competitive with the Business of the Company from any of the customers of the Company at the time of his termination or within twelve (12) months prior thereto or from any person or entity whose business the Company was soliciting at such time. (iii) Upon termination of his employment with the Company, and for a period of twelve (12) months thereafter, Executive shall not, either directly or indirectly, engage, hire, employ or solicit in any manner whatsoever the employment of an employee of the Company. (iv) For purposes of this Agreement, a business or activity is in “Competition” or “Competitive” with the Business of the Company if it involves, and a person or entity is a “Competitor”, if that person or entity is engaged in, or about to become engaged in, the research, development, design, manufacturing, marketing or selling of a specific product or technology that resembles, competes, or is designed to compete, with, or has applications similar to any product or technology for which the Company has obtained or applied for a patent or made disclosures, or any product or technology involving any other proprietary research or development engaged in or conducted by the Company during the Term of Executive’s employment with the Company.