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. Executive acknowledges and recognizes the highly competitive nature of the businesses of the Company Group and its affiliates and accordingly agrees as follows:
(1) During the Employment Term and, for a period of one year following the date Executive ceases to be employed by the Company Group (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 Group, the business of any client or prospective client:
(i) with whom Executive had personal contact or dealings on behalf of the Company Group during the one-year period preceding Executive’s termination of employment;
(ii) with whom employees reporting to Executive have had personal contact or dealings on behalf of the Company Group during the one year immediately preceding the Executive’s termination of employment; or
(iii) for whom Executive had direct or indirect responsibility during the one year immediately preceding Executive’s termination of employment.
(2) During the Restricted Period, Executive will not directly or indirectly:
(i) engage in any medical transcription processing services business, physician services business or other business that competes with the business of the Company Group or its affiliates (including, without limitation, businesses which the Company Group or its affiliates have specific plans to conduct in the future and as to which Executive is aware of such planning) in any geographical area where the Company Group or its affiliates manufactures, produces, sells, leases, rents, licenses or otherwise provides its products or services (a “Competitive Business”);
(ii) 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;
(iii) 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
(iv) interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, business relationships (whether formed before, on or after the date of this Agreement) between the Company Group or any of its affiliates, customers, clients, suppli...
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. (a) In consideration of the Company’s grant of this Option, the Optionee agrees that for as long as the Optionee is employed by the Company and until the first anniversary of the date of termination of the Optionee’s employment with the Company or any Affiliate, as the case may be, such Optionee will not directly or indirectly, (i) engage in any business that operates a telematics business that is seeking to provide automotive manufacturers with an integrated hardware and service package that competes directly with the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries at the time of termination of such Optionee’s employment, (a “Competitive Business”), (ii) enter the employ of, or render any services to, any Person engaged in a Competitive Business, (iii) acquire a financial interest in, or otherwise become actively involved with, any person engaged in a Competitive Business, directly or indirectly, as an individual, partner, shareholder, officer, director, principal, agent, trustee or consultant, (iv) interfere with business relationships (whether formed before or after the date of this Award Agreement) between the Company or any of its Affiliates and customers, suppliers, Partners, members or investors of the Company or its Affiliates or (v) disparage the Company, its Directors, Officers or controlling stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Optionee may, directly or indirectly own, solely as an investment, securities of any Person engaged in the business of the Company or its Affiliates which are publicly traded on a national or regional stock exchange or on the over-the-counter market if the Optionee (i) is not a controlling Person of, or a member of a group which controls, such Person and (ii) does not, direct or indirectly, own 5% or more of any class of securities of such Person.
(b) It is expressly understood and agreed that although Optionee and Company consider the restrictions contained in this Section 7 and the following Section 8 to be reasonable, if a final judicial determination is made by a court of competent jurisdiction that the time or territory or any other restriction contained in this Award Agreement is an unenforceable restriction against Optionee, the provisions of this Award Agreement shall not be rendered void but shall be deemed amended to apply as to such maximum time and territory and to such maximum extent as such court may judicially determine or indicate to be enforceable. Alternatively, if any court of competent jurisdic...
Non-Competition. The Employee further agrees with the Company to the following provisions, all of which the Employee acknowledges and agrees are necessary to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests. The Employee covenants and agrees with the Company that:
(i) Unless otherwise agreed between the parties, the Employee shall not, during the Employee’s employment with the Company and for a period of six (6) months thereafter, either directly or indirectly, engage in, render service or other assistance to, or sell products or services, or provide resources of any kind, whether as an owner, partner, shareholder, officer, director, employee, consultant or in any other capacity, whether or not for consideration, to any person, corporation, or any entity, whatsoever, that owns, operates or conducts a business that competes, in any material way, with the Company’s business (which includes, but is not limited to, the business of providing technologically advanced high-value products and services to energy, mining and infrastructure sector customers, primarily in the United States), other than the ownership of five percent (5%) or less of the shares of a public company where the Employee is not active in the day-to-day management of such company. With respect to the post-employment application of this Section 1(d)(i), the restrictions shall extend only to those specific countries or provinces where the Company conducts business on the day that the Employee’s employment with the Company terminates.
(ii) The Employee shall not, during the Employee’s employment with the Company and for a period of six (6) months thereafter, either directly or indirectly, (A) solicit, call on or contact any significant Customer of the Company with whom the Employee has had material contact during the Employee’s employment with the Company for the purpose or with the effect of offering any products or services of any kind offered by the Company at that time or during the Employee’s employment with the Company, (B) request or advise any present or future vendors or suppliers to the Company to cancel any contracts, or curtail their dealings, with the Company, or (C) assist any other person or entity in connection with any action described in either of the foregoing clauses (A) through (B).
(iii) During the Employee’s employment with the Company, the Employee shall not own, or permit ownership by the Employee’s spouse or any minor children under the parental control of the Employee, directly or in...
Non-Competition. The Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees that due to the Participant’s position with the Company and its Affiliates and the Participant’s knowledge of the Confidential and Proprietary Information (as defined below), the Participant’s employment by or affiliation with certain entities would be detrimental to the Company and its Affiliates. The Participant hereby agrees that the Participant has not and will not during the Participant’s term of service to the Company and its Affiliates and for a period of 12 months, which period shall commence immediately following (i) the voluntary termination of the Participant’s service with the Company or its Affiliates for any reason, or (ii) the termination of the Participant’s employment by the Company for Cause, directly or indirectly, become employed by, assist, consult to, advise in any manner or have any material interest in, any Competitive Entity, with which the Participant would hold a role or position similar to any role or position the Participant held with the Company, or for whom the Participant would provide services similar to those the Participant provided to the Company, during the 24 months preceding the termination of the Participant’s service with the Company or in which the Participant would have responsibility for or access to confidential information similar or relevant to that which the Participant had access to during the 24 months preceding the termination of the Participant’s service with the Company or its Affiliates. A “Competitive Entity” shall mean any multiple system operator and any person, entity or business that competes with any of the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s cable television, video programming distribution, advertising, voice-over internet protocol, telephone, on-line data, content and wired or wireless data businesses, or mobile phone/data and MVNO business, as well as such other businesses as the Company and its Affiliates engage in as of the date of termination of the Participant’s service with the Company or its Affiliates. The Participant’s agreement not to compete shall be limited to within 100 miles of the office(s), whether home or business, from which the Participant reported, primarily worked or provided substantial services on behalf of the Company or its Affiliates during the 24 months preceding the termination of the Participant’s service with the Company. Ownership of not more than one percent of the outstanding stock of any publicly traded company shal...
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) Executive will not, within the period during which the Award remains unvested following the termination of his employment with the Company for any reason (the “Post-Termination Period”) or during Executive’s employment (collectively with the Post-Termination Period, the “Restricted Period”), accept an employment or consulting relationship (or own or have any financial interest in), directly or indirectly, with any entity engaged in the business of providing [Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) related products and systems and information and technical services to military, government and commercial customers within the United States]. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Executive may, directly or indirectly own, solely as an investment, securities of any Person which are publicly traded on a national or regional stock exchange or on the over-the-counter market if Executive (i) is not a controlling person of, or a member of a group which controls, such person and (ii) does not, directly or indirectly, own 5% or more of any class of securities of such Person.
(b) It is expressly understood and agreed that although Executive and the Company consider the restrictions contained in this Appendix B to be reasonable, if a final judicial determination is made by a court of competent jurisdiction, that the time or territory or any other restriction contained in this Agreement is an unenforceable restriction against Executive, the provisions of this Agreement shall not be rendered void but shall be deemed amended to apply as to such maximum time and territory and to such maximum extent as such court may judicially determine or indicate to be enforceable. Alternatively, if any court of competent jurisdiction finds that any restriction contained in this Agreement is unenforceable, and such restriction cannot be amended so as to make it enforceable, such finding shall not affect the enforceability of any of the other restrictions contained herein.
(c) The period of time during which the provisions of this Appendix B shall be in effect shall be extended by the length of time during which Executive is in breach of the terms hereof as determined by any court of competent jurisdiction on the Company’s application for injunctive ...
Non-Competition. (a) During the Non-Compete Period and in the Restricted Region, neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates controlled by, or forming a part of, GE Aviation will (i) manage, operate, engage in, or own directly or indirectly any Equity Interests in any Person engaged in (A) the Business or (B) the business of designing, developing, operating, manufacturing, marketing, servicing and selling thrust reverser actuation systems (a “TRAS Business”), or (ii) actively assist any other party to compete with Buyer in the Business or in a TRAS Business.
(b) For the purpose of this Section 5.13, “Buyer” will include its subsidiaries, divisions and Affiliates as they may exist from time to time, and its successors and assigns, including any Person succeeding to title to the goodwill of the Business or the Purchased Assets from Buyer.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Section 5.13(a), and without implicitly agreeing that the following activities would be subject to the provisions of Section 5.13(a), nothing in this Agreement shall preclude, prohibit or restrict Seller or any other Person that is a part of GE Aviation from engaging in any manner in any (i) Financial Services Business, (ii) Existing Business Activities, (iii) De Minimis Business or (iv) business activity that would otherwise violate Section 5.13(a) that is acquired from any Person (an “After-Acquired Business”) or is carried on by any Person that is acquired by or combined with Seller or any of their Affiliates in each case after the Closing (an “After-Acquired Company”); provided that with respect to this clause (iv), so long as within eighteen (18) months after the consummation of the purchase or other acquisition of the After-Acquired Business or the After-Acquired Company, Seller or such other Person, as applicable, signs a definitive agreement to dispose of, and subsequently disposes of, the relevant portion of the business or securities of the After-Acquired Business or the After-Acquired Company or at the expiration of such eighteen (18) month period the business of the After-Acquired Business or the After-Acquired Company complies with this Section 5.13; provided however, that no such disposition shall be required to the extent the revenue from the competing portion of the business of the After-Acquired Business or After-Acquired Company is less than both (a) $15,000,000 and (b) 15% of the aggregate revenue of such After-Acquired Business or After-Acquired Company for the fiscal year imm...
Non-Competition. During the term of this Agreement and for any period during which Officer is receiving periodic severance payments pursuant to Section 4.2, or for a period of one year following a Termination Upon a Change in Control, so long as the payments provided for in Section 4.1 are made on a timely basis:
(a) Officer shall not, without the prior written consent of Corporation, directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, control, be connected with as an officer, employee, partner, consultant or otherwise, or otherwise engage or participate in any corporation or other business entity engaged in the business of buying, selling, developing, building and/or managing real estate facilities for the medical, healthcare and retirement sectors of the real estate industry. Officer understands and acknowledges that Corporation carries on business nationwide and that the nature of Corporation’s activities cannot be confined to a limited area. Accordingly, Officer agrees that the geographic scope of this Section 5 shall include the United States of America. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ownership by Officer of less than 2% of any class of the outstanding capital stock of any corporation conducting such a competitive business which is regularly traded on a national securities exchange or in the over-the-counter market shall not be a violation of the foregoing covenant.
(b) Simultaneously with the Effective Date and upon each anniversary of the Effective Date, Officer shall notify the Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the nature and extent of Officer’s investments, stock holdings, employment as an employee, director, or any similar interest in any business or enterprise other than Corporation; provided, however, that Officer shall have no obligation to disclose any investment under $100,000 in value or any holdings of publicly traded securities which are not in excess of one percent of the outstanding class of such securities.
(c) Officer shall not contact or solicit, directly or indirectly, any customer, client, tenant or account whose identity Officer obtained through association with Corporation, regardless of the geographical location of such customer, client, tenant or account, nor shall Officer, directly or indirectly, entice or induce, or attempt to entice or induce, any employee of Corporation to leave such employ, nor shall Officer employ any such person in any business similar to or in competition with that of Corporation. Officer hereby acknowledges and a...
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 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...
