With Competitors Sample Clauses

With Competitors. While employed by the Company and during the one (1) year period immediately following termination of Employee’s employment for any reason, Employee will not, directly or indirectly, whether as a stockholder, agent, partner, proprietor, officer, director, employee, consultant, contractor, or in any capacity whatsoever, engage in, become financially interested in, be employed by, or have any business connection with any other person, corporation, firm, partnership, or other entity whatsoever known by him to compete directly with the Company, anywhere throughout the world, in any line of business engaged in (or planned to be engaged in) by the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the term of his employment, Employee may own, as a passive investor, public securities of any competitor corporation, so long as his direct holdings in any one such corporation shall not in the aggregate constitute more than one percent (1%) of the voting stock of such corporation. This provision shall not be interpreted to limit Employee’s stock ownership in any way after the termination of his employment.
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With Competitors. For 23 months after the Termination Date, Executive shall obtain the written approval of the Chairman of the Company before engaging or participating (whether as an employee, contractor, consultant, partner, shareholder, investor, or any other type of participant) in any business that directly or indirectly competed with Company prior to the Termination Date, and if Executive does so without such approval, then at Company’s option: Company may declare all payments made and to be made under this Agreement forfeited (except for those required by law and those returning salary deferrals made by Executive) and seek to recover same; and/or Company may seek injunctive relief and damages to protect its rights under any or all agreements Executive has with the Company. This shall not prevent Executive’s ownership (directly or indirectly) of not more than one percent of the total shares of all classes of stock outstanding of any publicly held company, or five percent of the total outstanding securities of any privately held company. Executive acknowledges and agrees that her departure from the Company shall be treated as a resignation for purposes of the interpretation and application of Section 1 of the Business Protection Agreement, Senior Officers, dated December 1, 1998).
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Related to With Competitors

  • Competitors (i) No assignment or participation shall be made to any Person that was a Competitor as of the date (the “Trade Date”) on which the assigning Lender entered into a binding agreement to sell and assign or grant a participation in all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to such Person (unless the Borrower has consented to such assignment or participation in writing in its sole and absolute discretion, in which case such Person will not be considered a Competitor for the purpose of such assignment or participation). For the avoidance of doubt, with respect to any assignee or Participant that becomes a Competitor after the applicable Trade Date (including as a result of the delivery of a notice pursuant to, and/or the expiration of the notice period referred to in, the definition of “Competitor”), (x) such assignee or Participant shall not retroactively be disqualified from becoming a Lender or Participant and (y) the execution by the Borrower of an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignee will not by itself result in such assignee no longer being considered a Competitor. Any assignment or participation in violation of this clause (e)(i) shall not be void, but the other provisions of this clause (e) shall apply.

  • Interest in Competitors Except as set forth on Schedule 2.21, neither the Companies nor the Stockholders, nor any of their Affiliates, have any interest, either by way of contract or by way of investment (other than as holder of not more than 2% of the outstanding capital stock of a publicly traded Person, so long as such holder has no other connection or relationship with such Person) or otherwise, directly or indirectly, in any Person other than the Companies that is engaged in the retail sale of automobiles or light duty trucks.

  • Agreement not to Participate in Company’s Competitors During Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive agrees not to acquire, assume or participate in, directly or indirectly, any position, investment or interest known by Executive to be adverse or antagonistic to the Company, its business, or prospects, financial or otherwise, or in any company, person, or entity that is, directly or indirectly, in competition with the business of the Company or any of its Affiliates (as defined below). Ownership by Executive, in professionally managed funds over which the Executive does not have control or discretion in investment decisions, or as a passive investment, of less than two percent (2%) of the outstanding shares of capital stock of any corporation with one or more classes of its capital stock listed on a national securities exchange or publicly traded on a national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market shall not constitute a breach of this Section. For purposes of this Agreement, “Affiliate,” means, with respect to any specific entity, any other entity that, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such specified entity.

  • Indirect Competition Employee further agrees that, during the Term and the Non-Compete Period, he will not, directly or indirectly, assist or encourage any other person in carrying out, direct or indirectly, any activity that would be prohibited by the above provisions of this Section 6 if such activity were carried out by Employee, either directly or indirectly; and in particular Employee agrees that he will not, directly or indirectly, induce any employee of the Company to carry out, directly or indirectly, any such activity.

  • Confidential Information; Personal Relationships The Executive acknowledges that the Company has a legitimate and continuing proprietary interest in the protection of its confidential information and has invested substantial sums and will continue to invest substantial sums to develop, maintain and protect confidential information. The Executive agrees that, during and after the Restricted Period, without the prior written consent of the Board, the Executive shall keep secret and retain in strictest confidence, and shall not knowingly use for the benefit of himself or others all confidential matters relating to the Company's Business including, without limitation, operational methods, marketing or development plans or strategies, business acquisition plans, joint venture proposals or plans, and new personnel acquisition plans, learned by the Executive heretofore or hereafter (such information shall be referred to herein collectively as "Confidential Information"); provided, that nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit the Executive from disclosing or using any Confidential Information (A) in the performance of his duties hereunder, (B) as required by applicable law, (C) in connection with the enforcement of his rights under this Agreement or any other agreement with the Company, or (D) in connection with the defense or settlement of any claim, suit or action brought or threatened against the Executive by or in the right of the Company. Notwithstanding any provision contained herein to the contrary, the term Confidential Information shall not be deemed to include any general knowledge, skills or experience acquired by the Executive or any knowledge or information known or available to the public in general. Moreover, the Executive shall be permitted to retain copies of, or have access to, all such Confidential Information relating to any disagreement, dispute or litigation (pending or threatened) involving the Executive.

  • Competitive Employment In the event that Employee, prior to full settlement of the Performance Share Units and within the Restricted Territory, directly or indirectly, whether on Employee’s own behalf or on behalf of any other person or entity, performs services of the type which are the same as or similar to those conducted, authorized, offered or provided by Employee to the Company within the last 24 months, and which support business activities which compete with the Business of the Company.

  • This Agreement Is Not an Employment Contract The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (x) this Agreement is not a management or employment agreement and (y) nothing in this Agreement shall give the Executive any rights or impose any obligations to continued employment by the Bank or any subsidiary or successor of the Bank.

  • 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.

  • Affiliated Entities As used in this Agreement, "Company" shall include the Company and each corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity that is controlled by the Company, or is under common control with the Company (in each case "control" meaning the direct or indirect ownership of 50% or more of all outstanding equity interests), provided, however, that the Executive's title need not be identical for each of the affiliated entities nor the same as that for the Company.

  • Competitive Activities For purposes of the Agreement, to which this Exhibit B is attached, “Competitive Activities” means any activities relating to products or services of the same or similar type as the products or services (1) which were or are sold (or, pursuant to an existing business plan, will be sold) to paying customers of the Company or any Related Company, and (2) for which you have any direct or indirect responsibility or any involvement to plan, develop, manage, market, sell, oversee, support, implement or perform, or had any such responsibility or involvement within your most recent 24 months of employment with the Company or any Related Company. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, an activity shall not be treated as a Competitive Activity if the geographic marketing area of such same or similar products or services does not overlap with the geographic marketing area for the applicable products and services of the Company or any Related Company.

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