No Solicitation or Hiring of Employees During the Non-Compete Period, the Executive shall not solicit, entice, persuade or induce any individual who is employed by the Company or the Company Affiliates (or who was so employed within twelve (12) months prior to the Executive’s action) to terminate or refrain from continuing such employment or to become employed by or enter into contractual relations with any other individual or entity other than the Company or the Company Affiliates, and the Executive shall not hire, directly or indirectly, for himself or any other person, as an employee, consultant or otherwise, any such person. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company agrees that (i) the Executive’s responding to an unsolicited request from any former employee of the Company for advice on employment matters; and (ii) the Executive’s responding to an unsolicited request for an employment reference regarding any former employee of the Company from such former employee, or from a third party, by providing a reference setting forth his personal views about such former employee, shall not be deemed a violation of this Section 7(c); in each case, to the extent the Executive does not encourage the former employee to become employed by a company or business that employs the Executive or with which the Executive is otherwise associated (including, but not limited to, association as a sole proprietor, owner, employer, partner, principal, investor, joint venturer, shareholder, associate, employee, member, consultant, contractor, director or otherwise).
No Solicitation of Employees In partial consideration for the award of these Units, in order to forestall the disclosure or use of Confidential Information, as well as to deter the Grantee’s intentional interference with the contractual relations of the Company or any Affiliated Company, the Grantee’s intentional interference with prospective economic advantage of the Company or any Affiliated Company, and to promote fair competition, the Grantee agrees that the Grantee’s right to receive the Shares upon settlement of the Units is contingent upon the Grantee refraining, during the Period of Restriction and for a period of one (1) year after the Settlement Date, for himself/herself or any third party, directly or indirectly, from soliciting for employment any person employed by the Company, or by any Affiliated Company, during the period of the solicited person’s employment and for a period of one (1) year after the termination of the solicited person’s employment with the Company or any Affiliated Company (collectively “Solicit”). If, during the term of the Period of Restriction or at any time within one (1) year after the Settlement Date, the Grantee breaches his/her obligation not to Solicit, the Grantee’s right to the Shares upon settlement of the Units shall not have been earned and the Units, whether vested or not, will be immediately cancelled, and the Grantee shall immediately return to the Company the Shares issued in settlement of the Units or the pre-tax income derived from any disposition of such Shares. THE GRANTEE UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS PARAGRAPH IS NOT INTENDED TO AND DOES NOT PROHIBIT THE CONDUCT DESCRIBED, BUT PROVIDES FOR THE CANCELLATION OF THE UNITS AND A RETURN TO THE COMPANY OF THE SHARES OR THE GROSS TAXABLE PROCEEDS OF THE SHARES IF THE GRANTEE SHOULD CHOOSE TO VIOLATE THIS NON-SOLICITATION OF EMPLOYEES PROVISION DURING THE PERIOD OF RESTRICTION OR WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE SETTLEMENT DATE.
Non-Solicitation or Hire During the Term and for a period of twelve (12) months following the Employee’s employment termination, if such employment termination was pursuant to Section 5.1, Section 5.2.1 or Section 5.2.2, or twenty-four (24) months following the Employee’s employment termination if such employment termination was pursuant to Section 5.3 (the “Non-Solicit Period”), the Employee shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or attempt to solicit or induce or attempt to induce, directly or indirectly, (a) any individual or entity who or which is a customer of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties, or who or which was a customer of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties at any time during the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the date of the Employee’s employment termination, for the purpose of marketing, selling or providing to any such individual or entity any services or products offered by or available from the Company or any of the other Protected Parties (provided that if the Employee intends to solicit any such party for any other purpose, he shall notify the Company of such intention and receive prior written approval from the Company), (b) any supplier to or customer or client of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties to terminate, reduce or alter negatively its relationship with the Company or any of the other Protected Parties or in any manner interfere with any agreement or contract between the Company and/or any of the other Protected Parties and such supplier, customer or client, or (c) any employee or agent of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties or any individual or entity who or which was an employee or agent of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties during the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the date of the Employee’s employment termination, to terminate such individual’s or entity’s employment relationship with, or engagement to perform services for, the Protected Parties in order, in either case, to enter into a similar relationship with the Employee, or any other person or entity in competition with the Business of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties. The Employee further agrees that, during the Non-Solicit Period, he shall not, directly or indirectly, (i) hire or engage (or assist in the hiring or engaging of) any employee or agent of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties or any individual or entity who or which was an employee or agent of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties during the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the date of the Employee’s employment termination to enter into a similar relationship with the Employee or any other person or entity in competition with the Business of the Company or any of the other Protected Parties, (ii) solicit, divert with the intention to take away, or attempt to divert with the intention to take away, any investment opportunity considered by the Company or any other Protected Party, or (iii) interfere with, disrupt, or attempt to interfere with or disrupt, or assist others to disrupt or interfere with, the relationship, contractual or otherwise, between the Company or of the other Protected Parties and any of their respective customers, clients, accounts, investors, suppliers, lessors, consultants, independent contractors, agents, or employees.
Solicitation of Employees I agree that for a period of twelve (12) months immediately following the termination of my relationship with the Company for any reason, whether with or without cause, I shall not either directly or indirectly solicit, induce, recruit or encourage any of the Company’s employees to leave their employment, or take away such employees, or attempt to solicit, induce, recruit, encourage or take away employees of the Company, either for myself or for any other person or entity.
Non-Solicitation of Employees The Executive will not, during the period of the Executive’s employment with the Company, and for a period of one year after the termination of the Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, directly or indirectly, recruit, solicit or otherwise induce or attempt to induce any employee of the Company to leave the employment of the Company, nor hire any such employee at any enterprise with which the Executive is then affiliated.
Non-Solicitation of Company Employees Executive shall not, at any time during the Restricted Period (as defined below), without the prior written consent of the Company, engage in the following conduct (a “Solicitation”):
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.
No Solicitation of Customers During the Executive’s employment with the Employer and for a period of 12 months thereafter, the Executive shall not (except on behalf of or with the prior written consent of the Employer), either directly or indirectly, on the Executive’s own behalf or in the service or on behalf of others, (A) solicit, divert, or appropriate to or for a Competing Business, or (B) attempt to solicit, divert, or appropriate to or for a Competing Business, any person or entity that is or was a customer of the Employer or any of its Affiliates at any time during the 12 months prior to the date of termination and with whom the Executive has had material contact.
No Solicitation (a) Prior to the Expiration Date, each Shareholder (in its capacity as a shareholder of the Company) shall not, and shall cause (if applicable) each of its Affiliates and its and their respective directors, officers or employees not to, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause its and their other Representatives not to, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit, initiate, knowingly encourage, or knowingly facilitate any Acquisition Proposal or any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal, offer or request for information that would reasonably be expected to lead to or result in an Acquisition Proposal, or the making or consummation thereof, (ii) other than to inform any Person of the existence of the provisions contained in this Section 2.1, enter into, continue or otherwise participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any Person any information in connection with, or enter into any Contract or other agreement or understanding with respect to, any Acquisition Proposal or any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal, offer or request for information that would reasonably be expected to lead to or result in an Acquisition Proposal, or (iii) resolve or agree to do any of the foregoing; provided that nothing herein shall prohibit any Shareholder or any of its Affiliates or Representatives from participating in any discussions or negotiations with respect to such Shareholder’s willingness to enter into a voting agreement in connection with an Acquisition Proposal to the extent that the Company becomes permitted to take the actions set forth in clause (i) and clause (ii) of Section 5.02(b) of the Merger Agreement with respect to such Acquisition Proposal. Other than subject to the proviso in the foregoing sentence, from and after the execution of this Agreement, each Shareholder shall, and shall cause (if applicable) each of its Affiliates and direct its and their respective Representatives to immediately cease and cause to be terminated all existing discussions or negotiations with any Person conducted heretofore with respect to any Acquisition Proposal or any inquiry, expression of interest, proposal, offer or request for information that would reasonably be expected to lead to or result in an Acquisition Proposal.
No Solicitations From and after the date of this Agreement until the Effective Time or termination of this Agreement pursuant to ARTICLE X, the Company will not nor will it authorize or permit any of its officers, directors, affiliates or employees or any investment banker, attorney or other advisor or representative retained by it, directly or indirectly, (i) solicit or initiate the making, submission or announcement of any other acquisition proposal, (ii) participate in any discussions or negotiations regarding, or furnish to any person any non-public information with respect to any other acquisition proposal, (iii) engage in discussions with any Person with respect to any other acquisition proposal, except as to the existence of these provisions, (iv) approve, endorse or recommend any other acquisition proposal or (v) enter into any letter of intent or similar document or any contract agreement or commitment contemplating or otherwise relating to any other acquisition proposal.
