Restrictive covenants

Our national litigation team helps you protect your business from unlawful competition, and facilitating fair competition which stays on the right side of the law.

• Advising a manufacturing client, whose former technical director set up a competing business producing identical products, on claims for misuse of confidential information, passing off and breach of copyright
• Successfully defending claims against a new start-up business for breach of covenant, breach of copyright, breach of confidentiality and infringement of database rights
• Acting for a client facing a substantial claim for damages following the uploading of confidential information by a new employee (without the client’s knowledge) and the proliferation of that information throughout the organisation
• Successfully defending numerous restrictive covenant claims for a company specialising in the setting up of joint ventures with outgoing recruitment consultants
• Successfully defending three senior managers who set up in competition with their former employer, taking their entire workforce and all of their customers with them, against claims for breach of fiduciary duty, conspiracy and breach of contract
• Defending a claim for breach of a non-disclosure agreement following a failed joint venture between two research and development companies

We act for many types of client including:

• Manufacturing and technology companies
• Research & development companies
• New start-up companies
• Outgoing employees
• Businesses bringing in lateral hires
• Professional partnerships
• Acquirers or sellers of companies