Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation Sample Clauses
The Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation clause restricts a party, typically an employee or contractor, from engaging in business activities that compete with the employer or from soliciting the employer’s clients, customers, or employees for a specified period after the relationship ends. This clause often defines a geographic area and time frame during which the restrictions apply, and may prohibit the individual from starting a similar business or recruiting former colleagues. Its core function is to protect the employer’s business interests, confidential information, and client relationships by preventing unfair competition and loss of key personnel or clients.
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Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. (a) In consideration of this Agreement, the Executive agrees that, for the period ending one year after the termination of the Executive's employment with the Company by the Company for Cause or by the Executive without Good Reason (the "Non-Competition Period"), the Executive will not, directly or indirectly (whether as a sole proprietor, partner or venturer, stockholder, director, officer, employee, consultant or in any other capacity as principal or agent or through any Person, subsidiary or employee acting as nominee or agent):
(i) conduct or engage in or be interested in or associated with any Person which conducts or engages in the Triarco Business within the United States;
(ii) take any action, directly or indirectly, to finance, guarantee or provide any other material assistance to any Person engaged in the Triarco Business;
(iii) solicit, contact or accept business of any client or counterparty whom the Company served or conducted business with or whose name became known to the Executive as a potential client or counterparty while in the employ of the Company or during the Non-Competition Period; or
(iv) influence or attempt to influence any Person that is a contracting party with the Company at any time during the Non-Competition Period to terminate any written or oral agreement with the Company.
(b) The Executive shall neither, either on the Executive's own account or in conjunction with or on behalf of any other Person, solicit or entice away from the Company any officer, employee or customer of the Company during the term hereof or the Non-Competition Period nor engage, hire, employ, or induce the employment of any such Person whether or not such officer, employee or customer would commit a breach of contract by reason of leaving service or transferring business.
(c) The restrictive provisions hereof shall not prohibit the Executive from (i) having an equity interest in the securities of any entity engaged in the Triarco Business or any business with respect to which the Executive obtained confidential or proprietary data or information, which entity's securities are listed on a nationally-recognized securities exchange or quotation system or traded in the over-the-counter market, to the extent that such interest does not exceed 5% of the outstanding equity interests of such entity, (ii) investing as a passive investor in an entity engaging in the Triarco Business that is not so listed or traded, so long as such interest does not exceed 5% of ...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. During the Employment Term and during the Restrictive Period (as defined below), the Executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly, in any capacity whatsoever, either on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person or entity whom he may manage, control, participate in, consult with, render services for or be employed or associated, compete with the Business (as defined below) in any of the following described manners:
(i) Engage in, assist or have any interest in, as principal, consultant, advisor, agent, financier or employee, any business entity that is, or that is about to become engaged in, providing goods or services in competition with the Addus HealthCare Group within a geographic radius of fifty (50) miles from any Addus HealthCare Group branch office;
(ii) Solicit or accept any business (or help any other person solicit or accept any business) from any person or entity that on the Effective Date is a customer of the Addus HealthCare Group or during the Employment Term becomes a customer of the Addus HealthCare Group, other than a customer that does not engage in the Business;
(iii) Induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Addus HealthCare Group to terminate such employee’s relationship with the Addus HealthCare Group or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Addus HealthCare Group and any employee thereof; or
(iv) Induce or attempt to induce any customer, referral source, supplier, vendor, licensee or other business relation of the Addus HealthCare Group to cease doing business with the Addus HealthCare Group, or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such customer, referral source, supplier, vendor, licensee or business relation, on the one hand, and the Addus HealthCare Group, on the other hand. For purposes hereof, the term “Business” means the business of providing home care services of the type and nature that the Addus HealthCare Group then performed and/or any other business activity in which the Addus HealthCare Group then performed or program or service then under active development proposed to be performed and/or any other business activity in which the Addus HealthCare Group becomes engaged in on or after the date hereof while the Executive is employed by the Company.
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. The Executive hereby covenants and agrees that during the Term of the Executive’s employment hereunder and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, Executive shall not, directly or indirectly: (i) own any interest in, operate, join, control or participate as a partner, director, principal, officer or agent of, enter into the employment of, act as a consultant to, or perform any services for any entity (each a “Competing Entity”) which has material operations which compete with any business in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is then engaged or, to the then existing knowledge of the Executive, proposes to engage; (ii) solicit any customer or client of the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than on behalf of the Company) with respect to any business in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is then engaged or, to the then existing knowledge of the Executive, proposes to engage; or (iii) induce or encourage any employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries to leave the employ of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; provided, that the Executive may, solely as an investment, hold not more than five percent (5%) of the combined voting securities of any publicly-traded corporation or other business entity. The foregoing covenants and agreements of the Executive are referred to herein as the “Restrictive Covenant.” The Executive acknowledges that he has carefully read and considered the provisions of the Restrictive Covenant and, having done so, agrees that the restrictions set forth in this Section 6.1, including without limitation the time period of restriction set forth above, are fair and reasonable and are reasonably required for the protection of the legitimate business and economic interests of the Company. The Executive further acknowledges that the Company would not have entered into this Agreement absent Executive’s agreement to the foregoing. In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any of the provisions of this Section 6.1 or any parts hereof shall be held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions or parts hereof shall nevertheless continue to be valid and enforceable as though the invalid or unenforceable portions or parts had not been included herein. In the event that any provision of this Section 6.1 relating to the time period and/or the area of restriction and/or related aspects shall be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to exceed the maximum restrictiveness such court deems rea...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. While you are employed hereunder and for a period of one (1) year following the termination of your employment hereunder for any reason or for no reason, you will not, without the prior written consent of the Company:
(i) For yourself or on behalf of any other person or entity, directly or indirectly, either as principal, partner, stockholder, officer, director, member employee, consultant, agent, representative or in any other capacity, own, manage, operate or control, or be concerned, connected or employed by, or otherwise associate in any manner with, engage in or have a financial interest in, any Competitive Company (each, a “Restricted Activity”), except that (A) nothing contained herein will preclude you from purchasing or owning securities of any such business if such securities are publicly traded, and provided that your holdings do not exceed one percent (1%) of the issued and outstanding securities of any class of securities of such business and (B) nothing contained herein will prohibit you from engaging in a Restricted Activity for or with respect to any subsidiary, division or affiliate or unit (each, a “Unit”) of a Competitive Company if that Unit is not engaged in any business which is competitive with the business of the Company Group, irrespective of whether some other Unit of such Competitive Company engages in such competition (as long as you do not engage in a Restricted Activity for such other Unit);
(ii) Either individually or on behalf of or through any third party, directly or indirectly, solicit, divert or appropriate or attempt to solicit, divert or appropriate, for the benefit of any Competitive Company, any customers or patrons of the Company Group, or any prospective customers or patrons with respect to which the Company Group has developed or made a sales presentation (or similar offering of services);
(iii) Either individually or on behalf of or through any third party, directly or indirectly, (A) solicit, entice or persuade or attempt to solicit, entice or persuade any employees of or consultant to the Company Group to leave the service of the Company Group for any reason or (B) employ, cause to be employed, or solicit the employment of, any employee of or consultant to the Company Group while any such person is providing services to the Company Group; or
(iv) Either individually or on behalf of or through any third party, directly or indirectly, interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the relations between the Company...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. (a) Participant acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the businesses of the Company and its Affiliates and accordingly agrees as follows:
(i) During Participant’s employment with or service to the Company or its Affiliates (the “Employment Term”) and for a period that ends on the later of (A) one year following the date Participant ceases to be employed by or in service to the Company or any of its Affiliates or (B) the last date any portion of the Award granted under this Agreement is eligible to vest if Participant ceases to be employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates as a result of the Participant’s Retirement (the “Restricted Period”), Participant shall not, whether on Participant’s own behalf or on behalf of or in conjunction with any person, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation or other business organization, entity or enterprise whatsoever (“Person”), directly or indirectly solicit or assist in soliciting in competition with the Restricted Group in the Business, the business of any then current or prospective client or customer with whom Participant (or his direct reports) had personal contact or dealings on behalf of the Company or any of its Affiliates during the one-year period preceding Participant’s termination of employment or service.
(ii) During the Restricted Period, Participant shall not directly or indirectly:
(A) engage in the Business providing services in the nature of the services Participant provided to the Company at any time in the one year prior to the termination of Participant’s employment or service, for a Competitor;
(B) enter the employ of, or render any services to, a Competitor, except where such employment or services do not relate in any manner to the Business;
(C) acquire a financial interest in, or otherwise become actively involved with, a Competitor, directly or indirectly, as an individual, partner, shareholder, officer, director, principal, agent, trustee or consultant; or
(D) intentionally and adversely interfere with, or attempt to adversely interfere with, business relationships between the members of the Restricted Group and any of their clients, customers, suppliers, partners, members or investors.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Appendix A, Participant may, directly or indirectly own, solely as an investment, securities of any Person engaged in a Business (including, without limitation, a Competitor) which are publicly traded on a nati...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ hereby acknowledges that: (i) in addition to disposing of his indirect beneficial ownership interest in the Company as set forth in this Agreement, he is selling the goodwill of the Company associated with or attributable to the Contributed Interests; (ii) he has contributed to the development of the goodwill of the Company; and (iii) the parties hereto have agreed upon the consideration for the Contributed Interests to specifically include and reflect such sale of goodwill. In consideration of the sale of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’▇ indirect beneficial ownership in the Company, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ agrees that:
(a) Except as provided in this Section 7.09, during the period commencing at the Closing and up to and through the later of (x) the date arising three (3) years after the Closing Date and (y) the date arising two (2) years after the termination of his employment by the Purchaser or any of its Affiliates, (the “Restricted Period”), ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, whether directly or indirectly, shall not, whether for himself or on behalf of or in conjunction with any other Person in any capacity (as a principal, equity holder, joint-venturer, partner, director, officer, agent, executive, consultant, contractor, employee, lender or otherwise) (collectively, the “Covenanting Party”):
(i) induce, solicit, hire, recruit or attempt to persuade any Person to terminate such Person’s employment or other relationship with the Company, the Purchaser or any of their Affiliates (collectively, “Company Parties”) or not to establish an employment or other relationship with any Company Party, whether or not such Person is or would be an employee, consultant, contractor, manager, director, officer and/or employee, whether or not such relationship is or would be pursuant to a written or oral agreement and whether or not such relationship is for a specific period of time or is at-will;
(ii) employ or establish a business relationship with (or attempt to employ or establish a business relationship with), or encourage or assist any Person to employ or establish a business relationship with, any individual who is, was at any time within the six (6) month period prior to the date hereof, or will be at any time during the Restricted Period, an employee, consultant, contractor, manager, officer, director or employee of any Company Party;
(iii) direct or engage in any act which may interfere with or materially and adversely affect, alter or change the relationship (contractual or otherwise) ...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. (a) For a period of five (5) years commencing on the Closing Date (the “Restricted Period”), no Seller shall, and shall not permit any of his Affiliates to, directly or indirectly: (i) engage in or assist others in engaging in logistic management services and supply chain solutions, including last mile delivery service (the “Restricted Business”) in the State of Utah (the “Territory”); (ii) have an interest in any Person that engages, directly or indirectly, in the Restricted Business in the Territory in any capacity, including as a partner, stockholder, director, officer, member, manager, employee, contractor, principal, agent, volunteer, intern, advisor, or consultant; or (iii) intentionally interfere in any material respect with the business relationships (only if formed prior to the date of this Agreement and only in respect of business relationships for business solely conducted in the Territory) between the Company and customers or suppliers of the Company in the Territory. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each and every Seller may own, directly or indirectly, solely as an investment, securities of any Person traded on any national securities exchange or over-the-counter market if such Seller is not a controlling Person of, or a member of a group that controls, such Person and does not, directly or indirectly, own in excess of 4.99% of any class of securities of such Person.
(b) During the Restricted Period, no Seller shall, and shall not permit any of his Affiliates to, directly or indirectly, hire or solicit any current or former employee of the Company or encourage any employee to leave the Company’s employment, except pursuant to a general solicitation that is not directed specifically to any such employees; provided, however, nothing in this Section 6.04(b) shall prevent any Seller or any of his Affiliates from hiring any employee terminated by the Company.
(c) Each Seller acknowledges that a breach or threatened breach of this Section Section 6.04 would give rise to irreparable harm to Buyer, for which monetary damages would not be an adequate remedy, and hereby agrees that, in the event of a breach or a threatened breach by such Seller of any such obligations, Buyer shall, in addition to any and all other rights and remedies that may be available to it in respect of such breach, be entitled to petition a court of competent jurisdiction for equitable relief, including a temporary restraining order, an injunction, or specific performance (without ...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. Executive and the Company agree to the non-competition and non-solicitation provisions of this Article VIII: (i) in consideration for the Confidential Information provided by the Company to Executive pursuant to Article V; (ii) as part of the consideration for the compensation and benefits to be paid to Executive hereunder; (iii) to protect the trade secrets and Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates disclosed or entrusted to Executive by the Company or its Affiliates or created or developed by Executive for the Company or its Affiliates, the business goodwill of the Company or its Affiliates developed through the efforts of Executive and/or the business opportunities disclosed or entrusted to Executive by the Company or its Affiliates; and (iv) as an additional incentive for the Company to enter into this Agreement. Executive further agrees that the terms and provisions of this Agreement are reasonable and constitute an otherwise enforceable agreement to which the terms and provisions of this Section 8.2 are ancillary or a part of as contemplated by TEX. BUS. & COM. CODE ▇▇▇. Section 15.50-15.52.
(a) Subject to the exceptions set forth in Section 8.2(b), Executive expressly covenants and agrees that during the Prohibited Period (i) Executive will refrain from carrying on or engaging in, directly or indirectly, any Competing Business in the Restricted Area, and (ii) Executive will not, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, join, become an employee, partner, owner or member of (or an independent contractor to), control or participate in or be associated in any way with or loan money to, sell or lease equipment to, or sell or lease real property to any business or Person that engages in a Competing Business in the Restricted Area.
(b) Notwithstanding the restrictions contained in Section 8.2(a), Executive may own an aggregate of not more than 2% of the outstanding stock of any class of any corporation engaged in a Competing Business, if such stock is listed on a national securities exchange or regularly traded in the over-the-counter market by a member of a national securities exchange, without violating the provisions of Section 8.2(a), provided that Executive does not have the power, directly or indirectly, to control or direct the management or affairs of any such corporation and is not involved in the management of such corporation. In addition, the restrictions contained in Section 8.2(a) shall not preclude Executive from bein...
Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation a) Employee agrees that during the Non-Competition Period (as defined in Section 11(d) below), without the prior written consent of the Company: (i) he shall not be a principal, manager, agent, consultant, officer, director or employee of, or, directly or indirectly, own more than 1% percent of any class or series of equity securities in, any partnership, corporation or other entity, which, now or at such time, has material operations which are engaged in any business activity competitive (directly or indirectly) with the Business of the Company (a “Competing Entity”); and (ii) he shall not, on behalf of any Competing Entity, directly or indirectly, have any dealings or contact with any suppliers or customers of the Company. As used in this Agreement, the term “Business” means the purchase, collection and management of portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables, but shall not include such collection and management activities to the extent they are incidental to a business primarily engaged in loan origination or servicing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an entity will not be deemed to be a Competing Entity, and Employee will not be deemed to be engaged in the Business, if (i) Employee is employed by an entity that is engaged in any meaningful way in one or more businesses other than the Business (the “Non-Competing Businesses”), (ii) such entity’s relationship with Employee relates solely to the Non-Competing Businesses, and (iii) if requested by the Company, such entity and Employee shall provide the Company with reasonable assurances that Employee will have no direct or indirect involvement in the Business on behalf of such entity.
b) During the Non-Competition Period and for one year thereafter (two years after the Term), Employee agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Company (and other than on behalf of the Company), Employee shall not, on his own behalf or on behalf of any person or entity, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit the customers or suppliers of the Company to terminate their relationship with the Company (or to modify such relationship in a manner that is adverse to the interests of the Company) or (ii) hire or solicit the employment of any employee who has been employed by the Company at the time of Employee’s termination or at any time during the six months immediately preceding such date of hiring or solicitation. This provision does not prohibit the solicitation of employees by means of a general advertisement.
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Non-Competition; Non-Solicitation. Executive acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the businesses of the Company and its affiliates and accordingly agrees as follows: