Our team has represented:

• A global manufacturer and provider of industrial automation, process controls, electronics and telecommunication products and services in a wide range of disputes, including relating to: 
  • Employee raiding; 
  • Misappropriation of trade secrets; and 
  • Noncompetition covenants. 

• A leading, national department store retailer in several noncompete disputes against former high-level executives, including cases in which nationwide injunctive relief was granted. 
• A national collections receivables company in litigation asserting trade secret and breach of the duty of loyalty claims against a former high-level executive. 
• A global technology and manufacturing company engaged in the engineering, design and manufacture of customized thermal process systems in a noncompete dispute against its former Managing Director, Asia. 
• A company specializing in providing placement services in a number of noncompete and related matters. 
• An investment advisor business in two restrictive covenant cases filed against a total of five former employees. 
• Obtaining an injunction in the High Court in London to enforce a garden leave claim to prevent an employee joining a competitor (now a leading precedent decision). 
• Insurance brokerage firms in trade secret, noncompete and related disputes against former employees/brokers. 
• An international sales motivation company in noncompete litigation against a former top salesman/producer. 
• A multi-national packager in an arbitration proceeding in which the company was pursuing breach of contract claims and defending against unfair competition and trade secret claims.  Following a 17 day arbitration hearing, our client prevailed on its contract claim and all of the defendants’ counterclaims, and recovered compensatory damages as well as attorneys’ fees. 
• A global consumer products company in providing strategic advice on the inclusion of confidentiality, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements and clauses at hire and at termination for employees in Asia and Latin America. 
• Clients in providing strategic advice on the enforceability of restrictive covenants in connection with mass terminations affecting employees in major economies in Asia and Latin America.