Non-Competition Sample Clauses
A Non-Competition clause restricts one party, typically an employee or seller, from engaging in business activities that directly compete with the other party for a specified period and within a defined geographic area. This clause may prohibit starting a similar business, working for a competitor, or soliciting former clients after leaving a company or selling a business. Its core function is to protect the legitimate business interests of the party imposing the restriction by preventing unfair competition and safeguarding confidential information or customer relationships.
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Non-Competition. (a) During the Employment Term and for a period of one (1) year after the Termination Date (the "Restricted Period"), the Executive shall not directly or indirectly, for his own account or for the account of others, serve as an officer, director, stockholder, owner, partner, employee, promoter, consultant, advisor, manager or otherwise participate in the promotion, financing, ownership, operation, or management of, or assist in or carry on through a proprietorship, corporation, partnership or other form of business entity or otherwise that intends to compete against the Company or any of its affiliates or customers. Nothing in this Section 6 shall prohibit the Executive from acquiring or holding any issue of stock or securities of any Person that has any securities registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, listed on a national securities exchange or quoted on the automated quotation system of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. so long as the Executive is not deemed to be an "affiliate" of such Person as such term is used in paragraphs (c) and (d) of Rule 145 under the Securities Act and the Executive, members of his immediate family, or persons under his control do not own or hold more than five percent (5%) of any voting securities of any such Person.
(b) During the Restricted Period, the Executive shall not, whether for his own account or for the account of any other person (excluding the Company):
(i) solicit or contact in an effort to do business with any person who was a customer or a potential customer of the Company during the term of this Agreement, or any affiliate of any such person, if such solicitation or contact is for the purpose of competition with the Company;
(ii) solicit or induce any of the Company's employees to leave their employment with the Company or accept employment with anyone except the Company; or
(iii) interfere in a similar manner with the business of the Company. Nothing herein shall prohibit or preclude the Executive from performing any other types of services that are not precluded by Section 6 (a) for any other Person.
(c) The Executive has carefully read and considered the provisions of this Section 6 and, having done so, agrees that the restrictions set forth in this Section 6 (including the Restricted Period, scope of activity to be restrained and the geographical scope) are fair and reasonable and are reasonably required for the protection of the interests of the Company, its officers, directo...
Non-Competition. Executive hereby acknowledges and agrees that, during the course of employment, in addition to Executive’s access to Confidential Information, Executive has become, and will become, familiar with and involved in all aspects of the business and operations of the Bank Entities. Executive hereby covenants and agrees that during the Term until the later to occur of the date one (1) year after the Termination Date, or the Expiration Date (the “Restricted Period”), Executive will not at any time (except for the Bank Entities), directly or indirectly, in any capacity (whether as a proprietor, owner, agent, officer, director, shareholder, organizer, partner, principal, manager, member, employee, contractor, consultant or otherwise):
(a) provide any advice, assistance or services of the kind or nature which he provided to any of the Bank Entities or relating to business activities of the type engaged in by any of the Bank Entities within the preceding two years, to any Person who owns or operates a Competitive Business or to any Person that is attempting to initiate or acquire a Competitive Business (in either case, a “Competitor”) if (i) such Competitor operates, or is planning to operate, any office, branch or other facility (in any case, a “Branch”) that is (or is proposed to be) located within a fifty (50) mile radius of the Bank’s headquarters or any Branch of the Bank Entities and (ii) such Branch competes or will compete with the products or services offered or planned to be offered by the Bank Entities during the Restricted Period; or
(b) sell or solicit sales of Competitive Products to Persons within such 50 mile radius, or assist any Competitor in such sales activities. Notwithstanding any provision hereof to the contrary, this Section 8.5 does not restrict Executive’s right to (i) own securities of any Entity that files periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; provided that Executive’s total ownership constitutes less than two percent (2%) of the outstanding securities of such company and that such ownership does not does not violate: (A) the Code of Conduct or any other policy of the Bank, including any policy related to inside information; (B) any applicable securities law; or (C) any applicable standstill or other similar contractual obligation of the Bank. The parties have also entered into that certain Non-Compete Agreement as of even date herewith (the...
Non-Competition. In exchange for the consideration described above in Section 5.01, Employee agrees that during his employment with the Company and for a period of six (6) months after he is no longer employed by the Company (unless his employment is terminated after a Change in Control, in which event there will be no covenant not to compete and the noncompete covenants and obligations herein will terminate on the date of termination of Employee), Employee will not, directly or indirectly, either as an individual, proprietor, stockholder (other than as a holder of up to one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of a corporation whose shares are listed on a stock exchange or traded in accordance with the automated quotation system of the National Association of Securities Dealers), partner, officer, employee or otherwise:
a. work for, become an employee of, invest in, provide consulting services to or in any way engage in any business which (i) is primarily engaged in the drilling and workover of oil and gas ▇▇▇▇▇ within the geographical area described in Section 5.02(e) and (ii) actually competes to a substantial extent with the Company; or
b. provide, sell, offer to sell, lease, offer to lease, or solicit any orders for any products or services which the Company provided and with regard to which Employee had direct or indirect supervision or control, within one (1) year preceding Employee's termination of employment, to or from any person, firm or entity which was a Customer for such products or services of the Company during the one (1) year preceding such termination from whom the Company had solicited business during such one (1) year; or
c. solicit, aid, counsel or encourage any officer, director, employee or other individual to (i) leave his or her employment or position with the Company, (ii) compete with the business of the Company, or (iii) violate the terms of any employment, non-competition or similar agreement with the Company; or
d. employ, directly or indirectly, permit the employment of, contract for services or work to be performed by, or otherwise use, utilize or benefit from the services of any officer, director, employee or any other individual holding a position with the Company within two (2) years after the date of termination of employment of Employee with the Company or within two (2) years after such officer, director, employee or individual terminated employment with the Company, whichever period expires earlier; provided however, Employee can s...
Non-Competition. 7.1 The Employer and Employee agree that in consideration of the transaction giving rise to this agreement and the Employment provided hereunder, the Employee shall not, during the term of this agreement, or 5 years from the date on which the Employee ceases to be employed by the Employer ("Post- Termination Non-Competition Period") alone or in partnership with any other person, firm or corporation, as principal, agent, shareholder or in any other manner, carry on or be engaged in or concerned with or interested in, directly or indirectly, or advise, be employed by, or permit his name or any part thereof to be used by any person, firm or corporation engaged in or interested in any enterprise which is competitive to the Employer's business, solicit or attempt to solicit the business of any customer of the Employer who has been a customer of the Employer at any time in the thirty- six months preceding the date of termination or expiry of this agreement, or request or influence any employee of the Employer to terminate his employment. The Employee acknowledges and confirms that the scope of this covenant is in all respects no more than reasonable to protect the Employer.
7.2 The Employee acknowledges, agrees, and understands that, without prejudice to any and all remedies available to the Employer, an injunction is the only effective remedy for any breach of the Employee's covenants under paragraph 6.1 and that the Employer would suffer irreparable harm and injury in the event of any such breach. Accordingly, the Employee hereby agrees that the Employer may apply for and have injunctive relief, including an interim or interlocutory injunction, in any court of competent jurisdiction, to enforce any of the provisions of paragraph 6.1 upon the breach or threatened breach thereof. The Employee further agrees that the Employer may apply for and is entitled to said injunctive relief without having to prove damages, and is entitled to all costs and expenses, including reasonable legal costs.
7.3 The Employee understands and agrees that the restrictions and covenants contained in paragraph 6.1 constitute a material inducement to the Employer to enter into this agreement and to employ the Employee, and that the Employer would not enter into this agreement absent such inducement. The Employee agrees that the restrictions and covenants contained in this paragraph shall be construed independent of any other provisions of this agreement, and the existence of any claim or ...
Non-Competition. The Executive agrees that:
(a) During the Employment Term and for a period of two (2) years thereafter, or, if longer, for the period during which the Executive receives payments from the Company under Section 5.2, the Executive will not, except with the prior written consent of the Board, directly or indirectly own, manage, operate, join, control, finance or participate in the ownership, management, operation, control or financing of, or be connected as an officer, director, employee, partner, principal, agent, representative, consultant or otherwise with, or use or permit her name to be used in connection with, any business or enterprise that is engaged in a geographic area in which the Company or any of its affiliates is operating or has documented plans to operate, provided the Executive has knowledge of those plans, either during the Employment Term or on the date the Executive's employment terminates, as applicable, (whether or not such business is physically located within those areas) (the "Geographic Area"), in any business that is directly competitive to a business maintained by the Company or any of its affiliates or to a business that the Company or any of its affiliates has documented plans to maintain, provided that the Executive has knowledge of those plans, either during the Employment Term or on the date the Executive's employment terminates, as applicable ("Competing Business"). It is recognized by the Executive that the business of the Company and its affiliates operates throughout the Geographic Area and that the Executive is involved in such business throughout the Geographic Area, and therefore, that more limited geographical limitations on this non-competition covenant are not appropriate.
(b) The foregoing restrictions shall not be construed to prohibit the ownership by the Executive of less than five percent (5%) of any class of securities of any corporation that is engaged in any of the foregoing businesses having a class of securities registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"), provided that such ownership represents a passive investment and that neither the Executive nor any group of persons including the Executive in any way, either directly or indirectly, manages or exercises control of any such corporation, guarantees any of its financial obligations, otherwise takes any part in its business, other than exercising her rights as a shareholder, or seeks to do any of the foregoing.
Non-Competition. As a condition to, and in consideration of, the Company's entering into this Agreement, and giving Executive access to certain confidential and proprietary information, which Executive recognizes is valuable to the Company and, therefore, its protection and maintenance constitutes a legitimate interest to be protected by the provisions of this Section 6 as applied to Executive and other employees similarly situated to Executive, Executive acknowledges and hereby agrees as follows:
(a) that Executive is and will be engaged in the business of the Company;
(b) that Executive has occupied a position of trust and confidence with the Company prior to the Effective Date, and that during such period and the period of Executive's Employment under this Agreement, Executive has, and will, become familiar with the Company's trade secrets and with other proprietary and confidential information concerning the Company;
(c) that the obligations of this Agreement are directly related to the Employment and are necessary to protect the Company's legitimate business interests; and that the Company's need for the covenants set forth in this Agreement is based on the following: (i) the substantial time, money and effort expended and to be expended by the Company in developing technical designs, computer program source codes, marketing plans and similar confidential information; (ii) the fact that Executive will be personally entrusted with the Company's confidential and proprietary information; (iii) the fact that, after having access to the Company's technology and other confidential information, Executive could become a competitor of the Company; and (iv) the highly competitive nature of the Company's industry, including the premium that competitors of the Company place on acquiring proprietary and competitive information; and
(d) that for a period commencing on the Effective Date and ending one (1) month following Termination as provided in Section 11, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, serve as employee, agent, consultant, stockholder, director, co-partner or in any other individual or representative capacity, own, operate, manage, control, engage in, invest in or participate in any manner in, act as consultant or advisor to, render services for (alone or in association with any person, firm, corporation or entity), or otherwise assist any person or entity that directly or indirectly engages or proposes to engage in (i) the same, or a substantially similar, type of...
Non-Competition. (a) During the term of employment of the Employee under this Employment Agreement, and during a period of one (1) year after termination of employment of the Employee under this Employment Agreement without regard to the cause of termination of employment and whether or not such termination of employment was caused by the Employee or by the Corporation, (i) the Employee shall not engage, either directly or indirectly, in any manner or capacity, in any business or activity which is competitive with any business or activity conducted by the Corporation; (ii) the Employee shall not work for or employ, directly or indirectly, or cause to be employed by another, any person who was an employee, officer or agent of the Corporation or of any of its subsidiaries at any time during a period of twelve (12) months prior to the termination of the employment of the Employee under this Employment Agreement nor shall the Employee form any partnership with, or establish any business venture in cooperation with, any such person which is competitive with any business or activity of the Corporation; (iii) the Employee shall not give, sell or lease any goods or services competitive with the goods or services of the Corporation or its subsidiaries to any person, partnership, corporation or other entity who purchased goods or services from the Corporation or its subsidiaries within one (1) year before the termination of the employment of the Employee under this Employment Agreement; (iv) the Employee shall not have any material financial interest, or participate as a director, officer, 5% stockholder, partner, employee, consultant or otherwise, in any corporation, partnership or other entity which is competitive with any business or activity conducted by the Corporation.
(b) The Corporation and the Employee agree that the services of the Employee are of a personal, special, unique and extraordinary character, and cannot be replaced by the Corporation without great difficulty, and that the violation by the Employee of any of his agreements under this Section (10) would damage the goodwill of the Corporation and cause the Corporation irreparable harm which could not reasonably or adequately be compensated in damages in an action at law, and that the agreements of the Employee under this Section (10) may be enforced by the Corporation in equity by an injunction or restraining order in addition to being enforced by the Corporation at law.
(c) In the event that this Section (10) shal...
Non-Competition. (a) The Employee agrees and undertakes that, for as long as the Employee is employed by the Company and for the Non Compete Period thereafter - the Employee shall not become financially interested in, be employed by, or have any business connection with, any business or venture that is engaged in any activities competing with products or services offered by the Company, including, without limitation, any activities involving video content advertisement, web advertisements, video data mining and video recommendation systems, directly or indirectly, as owner, partner, joint venturer, shareholder, employee, broker, agent, principal, corporate officer, director, licensor or in any other capacity whatever; provided, however, that the Employee may own securities of any corporation which is engaged in such business and is publicly owned and traded, but in an amount not to exceed at any one time one percent of any class of stock or securities of such company, so long as he/she has no active role in the publicly owned and traded company as director, employee, consultant or otherwise.
(b) The Employee agrees and undertakes that during the period of his or her employment with the Company and for twelve months thereafter the Employee will not (i) employ or retain any person employed or retained by the Company or its affiliates on the date of the Employee’s termination or during the preceding twelve months, directly or indirectly, including personally or in any business in which he or she is an officer, director or shareholder; (ii) solicit, canvass or approach or endeavor to solicit, canvass or approach any person or entity who was provided with services by the Company or its affiliates on the date of the Employee’s termination or during the preceding twelve months, for the purpose of offering services or products which compete with the services or products supplied by the Company.
(c) If any one or more of the terms contained in this Section 8 shall, for any reason, be held to be excessively broad with regard to time, geographic scope or activity, the term shall be construed in a manner to enable it to be enforced to the extent compatible with applicable law.
(d) The Employee declares that he or she is aware that the Total Salary includes special consideration paid to the Employee for the Employee’s undertakings set out in this Section 8.
Non-Competition. During your employment with the Group and for a period of one year thereafter (the “Restricted Period”), you will not directly or indirectly, whether as an employee, officer, director, consultant, owner, manager, advisor, investor, or otherwise, in any geographic area in which the Group has conducted the Restricted Business during the 12 months preceding termination of your employment; (i) render advice or services to, or otherwise assist, any person, association, or entity who is engaged, directly or indirectly, in the Restricted Business; or (ii) hold a 5% or greater equity, voting or profit participation interest in any person, association, or entity who is engaged, directly or indirectly, in the Restricted Business. For purposes of this Section 7.3, “Restricted Business” means the business of developing, distributing, selling, supplying or otherwise dealing with the purchasing and/or selling of entertainment tickets and/or sports tickets in the primary and/or secondary markets or any other material line of business that the Company may later engage in in the ordinary course and for which you have direct operational responsibility or as to which you receive Proprietary Information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with prior written consent from the Company which shall not be unreasonably withheld, you may accept employment or otherwise be engaged in or involved with a competitor of the Group that has multiple lines of business (a “Permitted Employer”) provided that, during the Restricted Period, you are employed by or providing services to a business unit of such competitor that is not engaged or otherwise involved with the Restricted Business. Nothing contained in this Section 7.3 shall prohibit you from owning of a passive investment interest of not more than 5% in a company with publicly traded equity securities, and whether on your own behalf or on behalf of others. You agree that the Restricted Period shall be extended by a period equal the length of any violation of this Section 7.3.
Non-Competition a. Executive acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the businesses of the Company and its affiliates and accordingly agrees as follows:
(i) During the Employment Term and, for a period of twelve months following the date Executive ceases to be employed by the Company for any reason (the “Restricted Period”), Executive will not, whether on Executive’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 Company or its affiliates, the wire or cable business of any client or prospective client:
(A) with whom Executive had personal contact or dealings on behalf of the Company or its affiliates during the one year period preceding Executive’s termination of employment;
(B) with whom employees reporting to Executive have had personal contact or dealings on behalf of the Company or its affiliates during the one year period immediately preceding Executive’s termination of employment; or
(C) for whom Executive had direct or indirect responsibility during the one-year period immediately preceding Executive’s termination of employment.
(ii) During the Restricted Period, Executive will not directly or indirectly:
(A) engage in any business that manufactures or distributes wire or cable in competition with the Company or its affiliates in any geographical area that is within 100 miles of any geographical area where the Company or its affiliates manufactures or distributes wire or cable (a “Competitive Business”);
(B) enter the employ of, or render any services to, any Person (or any division or controlled or controlling affiliate of any Person) who or which engages in a Competitive Business;
(C) acquire a financial interest in, or otherwise become actively involved with, any Competitive Business, directly or indirectly, as an individual, partner, shareholder, officer, director, principal, agent, trustee or consultant; or
(D) interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, business relationships (whether formed before, on or after the date of this Agreement) between the Company or any of its affiliates and customers, clients, suppliers, partners, members or investors of the Company or its affiliates.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Executive may, directly or indirectly own, solely as an investment,...