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Many employment contracts contain provisions that restrict the employee’s activities in the event the employment comes to an end.
Restrictive covenants seek to protect the interests of an organisation and its remaining partners or directors, but when a senior employee, or an employee important to the business, leaves and seeks to take some of his or her former employer’s business with them, for example by taking clients, contacts or data, it is important for the employer to act quickly to protect its business. How can you act quickly and decisively to ensure you don’t lose business as a result of a former employee’s actions?
Working principally with employers, Stephensons’ team provides clear advice, implemented quickly to ensure that the restrictive covenant is enforced, observed and your business protected.
Advice relating to employment restrictive covenants is often required urgently. Contact our proactive team to discuss your concern on 01616 966 229.
Stephensons’ team has a depth of knowledge in advising employers on how to protect their business where a restrictive covenant has been breached.
Our team advises employers, and employees in some instances, as to the specific nature of restrictive covenants and acts efficiently when a breach is suspected to both assess the breach and, if necessary, to seek injunctive relief. Often court action is avoided by putting in place practical steps to limit any further damage.
Working closely with Stephensons’ employment advisers, the commercial litigation team delivers a complete and highly experienced service promptly and with a great track record of results.
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Our specialists advise on breaches of restrictive covenants and business protection including:
Stephensons advises predominantly employer clients and businesses, ranging from small partnerships to larger enterprises across all sectors.
Our team also advises a number of individuals in their capacity as former employees to dispute the enforceability of restrictive covenants in their contracts of employment.
“Our client, operating in the field of recruitment, was especially exposed to its employees exploiting the customer connections they had gained during the course of their employment.
Our client's ex-employee had secretively set up their own limited company and took steps whilst in employment to solicit customers as well as staff away from our client.
Given the seriousness of the breaches of contract, our team secured an injunction in the High Court to prevent any further loss or damage. The High Court proceedings were settled swiftly by way of a negotiated agreement, thereby avoiding future costs, risks and damage.“
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