Trade Secrets and Customer Lists Officer agrees to hold in strict confidence all information concerning any matters affecting or relating to the business of Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, its manner of operation, business plans, business prospects, agreements, protocols, processes, computer programs, customer lists, market strategies, internal performance statistics, financial data, marketing information and analyses, or other data, without regard to the capacity in which such information was acquired. Officer agrees that he will not, directly or indirectly, use any such information for the benefit of any person or entity other than Corporation or disclose or communicate any of such information in any manner whatsoever other than to the directors, officers, employees, agents, and representatives of Corporation who need to know such information, who shall be informed by Officer of the confidential nature of such information and directed by Officer to treat such information confidentially. Such information does not include information which (i) was or becomes generally available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by Officer or his representatives, or (ii) was or becomes available to Officer on a non-confidential basis from a source other than Corporation or its advisors provided that such source is not known to Officer to be bound by a confidentiality agreement with Corporation, or otherwise prohibited from transmitting the information to Officer by a contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation; notwithstanding the foregoing, if any such information does become generally available to the public, Officer agrees not to further discuss or disseminate such information except in the performance of his duties as Officer. Upon Corporation’s request, Officer will return all information furnished to him related to the business of Corporation. The parties hereto stipulate that all such information is material and confidential and gravely affects the effective and successful conduct of the business of Corporation and Corporation’s goodwill, and that any breach of the terms of this Section 6 shall be a material breach of this Agreement. The terms of this Section 6 shall remain in effect following the termination of this Agreement.
Employees and Contractors The number of employees or contractors used by Operator in conducting operations hereunder, their selection, and the hours of labor and the compensation for services performed shall be determined by Operator, and all such employees or contractors shall be the employees or contractors of Operator.
Suppliers and Customers (a) The Company has adequate sources of supply for its business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted. The Company has good relationships with all of its material sources of supply of goods and services and does not anticipate any material problem with any such material sources of supply.
Customer Lists We hereby agree that we shall not use any list of your customers which may be obtained in connection with this Agreement for the purpose of solicitation of any product or service without your express written consent. However, nothing in this paragraph or otherwise shall be deemed to prohibit or restrict us or our affiliates in any way from solicitations of any product or service directed at, without limitation, the general public, any segment thereof, or any specific individual, provided such solicitation is not based upon such list.
Non-Solicitation of Employees and Customers At all times during Employee's employment hereunder, or for such additional periods as may otherwise be set forth in this Agreement in reference to this Paragraph 15, Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, for himself or for any other person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity (a) attempt to employ, employ or enter into any contractual arrangement with any employee or former employee of the Company, its affiliates, subsidiaries or predecessors in interest, unless such employee or former employee has not been employed by the Company, its affiliates, subsidiaries or predecessors in interest during the twelve months prior to Employee's attempt to employ him, or (b) call on or solicit any of the actual or targeted prospective customers of the Company or its affiliates, subsidiaries or predecessors in interest with respect to any matters related to or competitive with the business of the Company.
Nonsolicitation of Employees and Customers At all times while ------------------------------------------ the Executive is employed by the Company and for the two (2) year period immediately following the termination of the Executive's employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, for himself or for or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity (a) employ or attempt to employ or solicit the termination of employment of or enter into any contractual arrangement with any employee or former employee of the Company, unless such employee or former employee has not been employed by the Company for a period in excess of six (6) months, and/or (b) call on or solicit any of the actual or targeted prospective customers or clients of the Company (or of its physician practices or laboratories) on behalf of any person or entity in connection with any business that competes with the Company's business, nor shall the Executive make known the names and/or addresses of such employees, customers or clients or any information relating in any manner to the Company's trade or business relationships with such employees, customers or clients, other than in connection with the performance of Executive's duties under this Agreement.
Top Customers and Suppliers The Company has disclosed to the Purchaser the key customers of the Company (the “Top Customers”) and the key suppliers of goods or services to the Company (the “Top Suppliers”). The relationships of the Company with such suppliers and customers are good commercial working relationships and (i) no Top Supplier or Top Customer within the last twelve months has cancelled or otherwise terminated, or, to the Company’s Knowledge, intends to cancel or otherwise terminate, any relationships of such Person with the Company, (ii) no Top Supplier or Top Customer has during the last twelve months decreased materially or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened to stop, decrease or limit materially, or intends to modify materially its relationships with the Company or intends to stop, decrease or limit materially its products or services to the Company or its usage or purchase of the products or services of the Company, (iii) to the Company’s Knowledge, no Top Supplier or Top Customer intends to refuse to pay any amount due to the Company or seek to exercise any remedy against the Company, (iv) the Company has not since the Company Incorporation Date been engaged in any material dispute with any Top Supplier or Top Customer, and (v) to the Company’s Knowledge, the consummation of the transactions contemplated in this Agreement will not affect the relationship of the Company with any Top Supplier or Top Customer.
Employees and Independent Contractors Schedule 3.16 is a list of all of the employees of the Acquired Companies and (a) their titles or responsibilities; (b) their social security numbers; (c) their dates of hire; (d) their current salaries or wages and all bonuses, commissions and incentives paid at any time during the past twelve months; (e) their last compensation changes and the dates on which such changes were made; (f) any specific bonus, commission or incentive plans or agreements for or with them; and (g) any outstanding loans or advances made to them. Schedule 3.16 is a list of all sales representatives and independent subcontractors or contractors engaged by the Acquired Companies and (a) their payment arrangements (if not set forth in a Contract listed or described on Schedule 3.15); and (b) brief description of their jobs or projects currently in progress. Except as limited by any Contracts listed on Schedule 3.15 and except for any limitations of general application which may be imposed under applicable employment Laws, each of the Acquired Companies has the right to terminate the employment of each of its employees at will and to terminate the engagement of any of its independent contractors without payment to such employee or independent contractor other than for services rendered through termination and without incurring any penalty or liability other than liability for severance pay and benefits in accordance with such company's disclosed severance pay policy and benefits due terminated employees. Neither the Transactions, nor the termination of the employment of any employees of any of the Acquired Companies prior to or following the consummation of the Transactions could result in any of the Acquired Companies making or being required to make any "excess parachute payment" as that term is defined in Section 280G of the Code. To the knowledge of CTC, each of the Acquired Companies is in full compliance in all material respects with all Laws respecting employment practices. None of the Acquired Companies has ever been a party to or bound by any union, collective bargaining or similar Contract, nor is any such Contract currently in effect or being negotiated by or on behalf of any of the Acquired Companies. Since the respective incorporation or formation dates of each of the Acquired Companies, none of the Acquired Companies has experienced any labor problem that was or is material to it. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.16, each of the Acquired Companies' current and past employees has signed an employee or confidentiality agreement which contains certain restrictive covenants substantially in the form attached to Schedule 3.16. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.16, each of the Acquired Companies' current and past contractors or consultants has signed agreements with the Acquired Companies containing restrictions that protect the proprietary and confidential information of the Acquired Companies and vest in the Acquired Companies the full ownership of items developed by such contractor. Except as indicated on Schedule 3.16, since January 1, 2000, to the knowledge of CTC, no employee of any of the Acquired Companies having an annual salary of $50,000 or more has indicated an intention to terminate or has terminated his or her employment with such company. To the knowledge of CTC, the Transactions will not adversely affect relations with any material employee of the Acquired Companies.
Customer List The Administrative Agent shall have received a true and complete customer list for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, which list shall state the customer’s name, mailing address and phone number and shall be certified as true and correct by a Financial Officer.
Customers and Suppliers Except as set forth in the Disclosure Memorandum with specific reference to this Section, as of the date hereof, no customer which individually accounted for more than 1% of the gross revenues of the Company and all its Subsidiaries during the 12 month period preceding the date hereof, and no supplier of the Company and all its Subsidiaries, has canceled or otherwise terminated, or made any written threat to the Company or any Subsidiary to cancel or otherwise terminate, its relationship with the Company or any Subsidiary, or has at any time on or after July 3, 1998 decreased materially its services or supplies to the Company and all its Subsidiaries in the case of any such supplier, or its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries in the case of any such customer, and to the knowledge of the Company no such supplier or customer intends to cancel or otherwise terminate its relationship with the Company or any Subsidiary or to decrease materially its services or supplies to the Company and all its Subsidiaries or its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries, as the case may be. From and after the date hereof, no customer which individually accounted for more than 5% of the gross revenues of the Company and all its Subsidiaries during the 12 month period preceding the Closing Date, has canceled or otherwise terminated, or made any written threat to the Company to cancel or otherwise terminate, for any reason, including without limitation the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, its relationship with the Company and all Subsidiaries, and no such customer intends to cancel or otherwise terminate its relationship with the Company and all its Subsidiaries or to decrease materially its usage of the services or products of the Company and all its Subsidiaries. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has breached, so as to provide a benefit to the Company or any Subsidiary that was not intended by the parties, any agreement with, or engaged in any fraudulent conduct with respect to, any customer or supplier of the Company or any Subsidiary. The Disclosure Memorandum with specific reference to this Section, sets forth the dates of each audit conducted since January 1, 1995 by each material supplier of the Company and its Subsidiaries and summaries of the results of such audits.
