Restrictive Covenant Solicitors
Employers often include post-termination restrictive covenants in contracts of employment. These are clauses designed to prevent departing employees from soliciting or dealing with the employer’s clients, misusing its confidential information, ‘poaching’ skilled employees and, in certain situations, preventing them from working for a competitor.
Defending the application of such restrictive covenants, which usually takes the form of a claim for an injunction and/or damages, can be costly. If you lose you may be liable for the other parties’ costs as well as your own.
We will advise you on the enforceability of the relevant clause either when you begin employment and sign the contract, or on your termination of employment. We can also provide tactical advice in responding to an employer’s attempts to enforce the restrictions in pre-litigation correspondence and will work with our dispute resolution team, in defending any claims against you.
Our restrictive covenant solicitors may also be able to act for your new employer as it is not unusual for proceedings also to be threatened / instigated on the grounds against them, on the grounds that your new employer induced you to breach your contract of employment.
Please contact a member of our team if you would like any further information.
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