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. The Employee shall not, at any time during the Employment Term and for a period (the "Restricted Period") of three (3) years thereafter, directly or indirectly, except where specifically contemplated by the terms of his employment or this Agreement, (a) be employed by, engage in or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, or act in any advisory or other capacity for, any Competing Entity which conducts its business within the Territory; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Employee may make solely passive investments in any Competing Entity the common stock of which is publicly held and of which the Employee shall not own or control, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate securities which constitute 5% or more of the voting rights or equity ownership of such Competing Entity; or (b) solicit or divert any business or any customer from the Subsidiary or any Affiliate of the Subsidiary or assist any person, firm or corporation in doing so or attempting to do so; or (c) cause or seek to cause any person, firm or corporation to refrain from dealing or doing business with the Subsidiary or any Affiliate of the Subsidiary or assist any person, firm or corporation in doing so. The Employee agrees that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if he breaches any of his covenants contained in this Section 13, then, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company and the Subsidiary shall be entitled to (1) cease or withhold payment or provision of any severance compensation and benefits to which the Employee is otherwise entitled pursuant to Section 10(a), and (2) receive reimbursement from the Employee of any lump-sum payments previously made to the Employee of any severance compensation payable under Section 10(a) and any Closing Bonus theretofore paid to the Employee, and the Employee shall forfeit his right to receive any such severance compensation and Closing Bonus; provided, however, that any obligation of the Employee to reimburse the Company or the Subsidiary for any lump-sum payments and Closing Bonus pursuant to clause (2) of this sentence shall lapse on a pro rata basis as follows: the portion of such lump-sum payments and Closing Bonus that may be required to be so reimbursed by the Employee shall be the total of all such lump-sum payments and Closing Bonus multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of days rem...
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. The Executive acknowledges that (i) the Executive performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group, and that the Executive’s performance of such services to a competing business may result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) the Executive has had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information which, if disclosed, may unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against the Company Group or any of its affiliates, (iii) in the course of the Executive’s employment by a competitor, the Executive may inevitably use or disclose such Confidential Information, (iv) the Company Group and its affiliates have substantial relationships with their customers and the Executive has had and may continue to have access to these customers, (v) the Executive has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group and its affiliates, and (vi) the Executive has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group and its affiliates in the course of the Executive’s employment and service. Accordingly, during the Executive’s employment or service with the Company Group and for a period of two (2) years thereafter (the “Restricted Period”), the Executive agrees that the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, control, be employed by (whether as an employee, consultant, independent contractor or otherwise, and whether or not for compensation) or render services to any person, firm, corporation or other entity, in whatever form, engaged in any business that competes with, at the date of termination, the then present business of the Company Group (which on the date of this Agreement is an outdoor products company that manufactures, markets, sells, and distributes fire pits, stoves, grills, casual men’s clothing and weekend wear, as well as kayaks, paddleboards and related products) (the “Restricted Business”) within (I) the United States or (II) any other country in which the Company Group conducts the Restricted Business during the Executive’s employment or service with the Company Group during the Restricted Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit the Executive from being a passive owner of not more than five percent (5%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation or privately held company engaged in a business that is in competition with the Company Group or any of its affiliates, so long as the Executive has no active participation in ...
Non-Competition. (a) During his employment by the Company and for a period of one year thereafter, the Employee will not, unless acting 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 his name to be used in connection with, any business or enterprise engaged in a geographic area in which the Company or any of its affiliates is operating either during his employment by the Company or on the Termination Date, as applicable, presently on the East Coast of the United States or at any port in the Gulf of Mexico (whether or not such business is physically located within those areas) (the "Geographic Area"), in any business that is a customer of, competitive to, a business from which the Company or any of its affiliates derive at least five percent of its respective gross revenues either during his employment by the Company or on the Termination Date, as applicable. It is recognized by the Employee that the business of the Company and its affiliates and the Employee's connection therewith is or will be involved in activity throughout the Geographic Area, and that more limited geographical limitations on this non-competition covenant are therefore not appropriate. The Employee also shall not, directly or indirectly, during such one-year period (a) solicit or divert business from, or attempt to convert any client, account or customer of the Company or any of its affiliates, whether existing at the date hereof or acquired during Employee's employment nor (b) following Employee's employment, solicit or attempt to hire any then employee of the Employer or of any of its affiliates.
(b) The foregoing restriction shall not be construed to prohibit the ownership by the Employee of less than one percent (1%) of any class of securities of any corporation which is engaged in any of the foregoing businesses having a class of securities registered pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, provided that such ownership represents a passive investment and that neither the Employee nor any group of persons including Employee 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, oth...
Non-Competition. The Executive acknowledges that (i) the Executive performs services of a unique nature for the Company Group that are irreplaceable, and that the Executive’s performance of such services to a competing business will result in irreparable harm to the Company Group, (ii) the Executive has had and will continue to have access to trade secrets and other confidential information of the Company Group, which, if disclosed, would unfairly and inappropriately assist in competition against any member of the Company Group, (iii) in the course of the Executive’s employment by a competitor, the Executive would inevitably use or disclose such trade secrets and confidential information, (iv) the Company Group has substantial relationships with its customers and the Executive has had and will continue to have access to these customers, (v) the Executive has received and will receive specialized training from the Company Group, and (vi) the Executive has generated and will continue to generate goodwill for the Company Group in the course of the Executive’s employment. Accordingly, during the Executive’s employment hereunder and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, the Executive agrees that the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, control, be employed by (whether as an employee, consultant, independent contractor or otherwise, and whether or not for compensation) or render services to any person, firm, corporation or other entity, in whatever form, engaged in competition with any member of the Company Group or in any other material business in which any member of the Company Group is engaged on the date of termination or in which they have demonstrably planned, on or prior to such date, to be engaged in on or after such date, in any locale of any country in which any member of the Company Group conducts business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prohibit the Executive from being a passive owner of not more than one percent (1%) of the equity securities of a publicly traded corporation engaged in a business that is in competition with a member of the Company Group, so long as the Executive has no active participation in the business of such corporation.
Non-Competition. A. Employee is familiar with the business of Company, the commercial and competitive nature of the industry, and with his extraordinary and unique services and abilities which enable him to seek and obtain similar employment in the broadcast industry. Employee recognizes that the value of Company's business would be injured if Employee obtained comparable employment with any of Company's competitors which own broadcast properties within any of the markets in which the Company owns broadcast properties as of the day on which this Agreement expires/terminates or as of the day before a Change of Control is consummated, whichever is applicable. For purposes of this Section 12A, the day before a Change of Control shall be applicable for determining limitations on broadcast markets if this Agreement terminates as a direct or indirect result of the Change of Control; otherwise, the day before the Agreement expires/terminates shall be the applicable date for these purposes. Employee further recognizes that such injury could not be reasonably or adequately compensated by monetary compensation. For these reasons, upon the expiration/termination of this Agreement under either Section 8 or 9, Employee will not, for a period equal to the number of months for which severance benefits are payable to Employee under either Section 8B or 9B(3), but not more than one (1) year (the "Non-Competition Term"), perform services for any other person or entity in any broadcast market in which Company owns any broadcast properties as of the day on which this Agreement expires/terminates or as of the day before a Change of Control is consummated, whichever is applicable. Nothing in this Section 12 shall prevent Employee from performing services, during the Non-Competition Term, for any person or entity in broadcast markets in which Company owns no broadcast properties as of the day on which this Agreement expires/terminates or as of the day before a Change of Control is consummated, whichever is applicable. Furthermore, this Section 12 shall not prevent Employee from performing services during the Non-Competition Term in broadcast markets in which the acquiring company owns broadcast properties on the day before a Change of Control becomes effective.
B. During the Non-Competition Term, Employee shall not either directly or indirectly employ, solicit for employment, or advise or recommend to any other person that they employ or solicit for employment, any other employee of Company.
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Non-Competition. During the Employment Period and for a period of one (1) year after the expiration or termination of Executive’s employment, whether by resignation or otherwise (except if Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason or by an Accelerated Resignation or ends on the End of Term Date due to a Non-Renewal Notice or ends due to the failure of a Successor Employer to assume and be bound by this Agreement), Executive shall not, without the prior written consent of the Board, directly or indirectly, enter into the employment of, render any services to, invest in, lend money to, engage, manage, operate, own or otherwise offer other assistance to, or participate in, as an officer, director, manager, employee, principal, proprietor, representative, stockholder, member, partner, associate, consultant or otherwise, any person or entity that competes, plans to compete or is considering competing with the Company in any business of the Company existing or proposed at the time Executive shall cease to perform services hereunder (a “Competing Entity”) in any state or with respect to any region of the United States, in either case in which the Company conducts material operations (defined as accounting for 10% or more of the Company’s revenue), or owns assets the value of which totals 10% or more of the total value of the Company’s assets, at any time during the term of this Agreement (collectively, the “Territory”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive shall be permitted to own up to a five percent (5%) equity interest in a publicly traded Competing Entity. If Executive’s employment ends due to an Accelerated Resignation, the post-termination restriction pursuant to this subsection shall continue after the Date of Termination until the End of Term Date.
Non-Competition. (a) Executive agrees that during the Term of Employment and during the one (1) year period immediately following the Termination Date (the “Non-Competitive Period”), Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, as owner, partner, joint venturer, stockholder, employee, broker, agent, principal, trustee, corporate officer, director, licensor, or in any capacity whatsoever, engage in, become financially interested in, be employed by, render any consultation or business advice with respect to, accept any competitive business on behalf of, or have any connection with any business which is competitive with products or services of the Company or any subsidiaries and affiliates, in any geographic area in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates are then conducting or proposing to conduct business, including, without limitation, the United States of America and its possessions, Canada and Europe; provided, however, that Executive may own any 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 (1%) of any class of stock or securities of such corporation. In addition, Executive shall not, during the Non-Competitive Period, directly or indirectly, request or cause any suppliers or customers with whom the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates has a business relationship to cancel or terminate any such business relationship with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or otherwise compromise the Company’s good will or solicit, hire, interfere with or entice from the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates any employee (or former employee who has been separated from service for less than 12 months) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
(b) If any portion of the restrictions set forth in this paragraph 10 should, for any reason whatsoever, be declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the validity or enforceability of the remainder of such restrictions shall not thereby be adversely affected. For the purposes of this paragraph 10, a business competitive with the products and services of the Company (or such subsidiaries and affiliates) is limited to a specialty retailer which primarily distributes, sells or markets so-called “big and tall” apparel of any kind for men or which utilizes the “big and tall” retail or wholesale marketing concept as part of its business.
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