The Participant acknowledges and agrees that, during the Participant's employment with the Company and its Affiliates and upon the Participant's termination of employment with the Company and its Affiliates for any reason, for a period commencing on the termination of such employment and ending on the second anniversary of such termination, the Participant shall not, whether on Participant's own behalf or on behalf of or in conjunction with any person, company, business entity or other organization whatsoever, directly or indirectly:
Non-Solicitation of Employees: Executive agrees that, during the Employment Period, and for a period of twenty-four (24) months following the termination of Executive’s employment, regardless of the reason for such termination, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit, or attempt to solicit, for employment, with Executive or with any other person or entity, any employee of the Company.
Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation. Participant agrees to comply fully with any written agreement between the Company and the Participant which provides for post-termination of employment restrictions against solicitation or competition (the “Restrictive Covenant Agreement”); provided, however, that if no such Restrictive Covenant Agreement exists, the Participant shall not for a period of [six (6)][twelve (12)][eighteen (18)] months after Participant’s voluntary termination of employment with Company or involuntary termination of employment by Company, either himself or together with other persons, directly or indirectly: # own, manage, operate, finance, join, control or participate in the ownership, management, operation, financing, or control of or be connected as an officer, director, employee, partner, principal, agent, representative, consultant or otherwise with, or have any financial interest in, or aid or assist anyone else in the conduct of, or use or permit Participant’s name to be used in connection with, any business engaged in the research, development, manufacture, sale, marketing or distribution of stainless steel, titanium, specialty alloys, metal powders or metal fabricated parts or components similar to or competitive with those manufactured by the Company (a “Competing Business”) as of the date the Participant’s employment with Company ends; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent the Participant from investing in the securities of any company listed on a national securities exchange, provided that Participant’s involvement with any such company is solely that of a stockholder of 5% or less of any class of the outstanding securities thereof; # solicit or divert to any Competing Business any individual or entity that is a customer or prospective customer of the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates, or was such a customer or prospective customer at any time during the eighteen (18) months prior to the date of Participant’s employment termination with the Company; # induce, offer, assist, encourage or suggest # that another business or enterprise offer employment to or enter into a business affiliation with any Company employee, agent or representative, or any individual who acted as an employee, agent or representative of the Company in the previous six (6) months; or # that any Company employee, agent or representative (or individual who acted as an employee, agent or representative of the Company in the previous six (6) months) terminate his or her employment or business affiliation with the Company; or # hire or participate in the hiring of any Company employee or any person who was an employee of the Company in the previous six (6) months, by any business, enterprise or employer. For this purpose, “prospective customer” shall mean a person or business entity that the Company has identified as a user or potential user of the Company’s products and toward which the Company plans to direct sales or marketing activities.
The Executive agrees and acknowledges that the Confidential Information that the Executive has already received and will receive is valuable to the Company and that its protection and maintenance constitutes a legitimate business interest of the Company, to be protected by the non-competition restrictions set forth herein. The Executive agrees and acknowledges that the non-competition restrictions set forth herein are reasonable and necessary and do not impose undue hardship or burdens on the Executive. The Executive also acknowledges that the Company’s business is conducted worldwide (the “Territory”), and that the Territory, scope of prohibited competition, and time duration set forth in the non-competition restrictions set forth below are reasonable and necessary to maintain the value of the Confidential Information of, and to protect the goodwill and other legitimate business interests of, the Company, its affiliates and/or its clients or customers. The provisions of this [Section 13] shall survive the termination of the Executive’s employment hereunder for the time periods specified below.
The Participant agrees that for a period of one year following his or her departure from the Company, he or she will not (directly or in association with others) call on or solicit any of the Companys customers with whom he or she had personal contact while he or she was employed by the Company, for the purpose of providing the customers with goods and/or services similar in nature to those provided by the Company in its Business as defined below. The Participant further agrees that for the same time period, he or she will not, directly or indirectly, engage in any activity which is the same as or competitive with the Business (as defined below) including, without limitation, engagement as an officer, director, proprietor, employee, partner, investor (other than as a holder of less than 2% of the outstanding capital stock of a publicly traded corporation), guarantor, consultant, advisor, agent, sales representative or other participant, in any market in which the Company conducts its Business. For purposes of these Standard Terms and Conditions, the term Business means the transportation of goods in interstate commerce and related services in or through or for any state in which the Company or any of its affiliates provides such services directly or indirectly and any other activity that supports such operations including by the way of example but not limitation, marketing, information systems, logistics, technology development or implementation, terminal services and any other activity of the Company or any of its affiliates. This Section 10 is not intended to prevent the Participant from engaging in any activity that is not the same as or competitive with the Business. The Participant acknowledges that the Company would not have awarded him or her the shares of Common Stock granted under the Grant Notice absent his or her agreement to be bound by the promises made in this Section 10.
Confidentiality, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition. The salary and benefits outlined in this Offer Letter are contingent upon your execution of the Confidentiality, Non-Solicitation and Non-Competition Agreement attached hereto as [Exhibit A].
all employee and former employee covenants regarding confidentiality, non-competition, and non-solicitation of customers and employees;
For avoidance of doubt, Employee acknowledges and agrees that any manufacturer that engages in direct sales of product or services to the livestock industry, or to equine or companion animal veterinarians or any other business conducted or engaged in by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or in a business, which as of the date of termination of employment, the board of directors (including any committee) or senior management of the Company has taken active steps to engage in or acquire, is deemed a Competitive Business as defined in [Exhibit A] and Company acknowledges and agrees that any manufacturer that does not engage in direct sales of product or services in competition with the Company is not deemed a Competitive Business as defined in [Exhibit A].
Non-Competition. The Executive understands that the Company operates across the United States and Canada. The Executive acknowledges that the Executive’s duties as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will entail involvement with the entire range of the Company’s operations across the United States and Canada, and that the Executive’s extensive familiarity with the Company’s business and Confidential Information justifies a restriction applicable across the entire geographic footprint in which the Company provides services and does business. To the fullest extent permitted by any applicable law, the Executive covenants and agrees that during employment, and for the period of one (1) year immediately following the termination, for any reason, of the Executive’s employment with the Company (the “Non-Compete Period”), the Executive will not:
Non-Competition. As the Award is intended to encourage the Participant to continue employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate, during which time the Participant will have access to Confidential Information (as defined below), including Confidential Information first developed after the Grant Date, during the term of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or any Affiliate and for a period of two (2) years following the termination of employment, regardless of the reason for or the manner of termination, the Participant shall not, without the written consent of the General Counsel of the Corporation or their designee, in any country or countries for which the Participant had development, marketing, innovation/technology (R&D), distribution, sales, administrative, operational/supply chain or manufacturing oversight responsibilities during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment or was provided with regular and material access to Confidential Information regarding the Corporation’s or an Affiliate's business operations in that country or countries during the last two (2) years of the Participant’s employment, either directly or indirectly, perform duties or undertake responsibilities for a Competitor (as defined below) that are the same or substantially similar to those duties or responsibilities that the Participant performed or undertook for the Corporation or an Affiliate during the two (2) year period prior to the end of the Participant’s employment with the Corporation or an Affiliate. “Confidential Information,” for purposes of this Section 19, shall mean # statutory trade secrets; # proprietary information developed or acquired by the Corporation that does not rise to the level of a statutorily protectable trade secret and is made the property of the Corporation through this mutual Agreement of the parties; and # information that is otherwise legally protectable. Such Confidential Information includes, but is not limited to, information in whatever form (including, without limitation, in written, oral, visual or electronic form or on any magnetic or optical disk or memory storage medium, as well as other physical items wherever located, and abstracts or summaries of the foregoing) relating to the business, suppliers, customers, products, affairs and finances of the Corporation or any Affiliate for the time being confidential to the Corporation or any Affiliate, ideas, conceptions, compilations of data, and developments created by the Corporation, whether or not patentable and whether or not copyrightable, and trade secrets including, without limitation, technical data and know-how relating to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate, or any of their suppliers, customers, agents, distributors, shareholders or management, including (but not limited to) business plans, pricing strategies, financial information, patent rights, patent applications, information concerning tenders and potential contracts, information concerning proposed product ranges, product development information, employee and salary information, research and development activities or manufacturing methods that the Participant creates, develops, receives, obtains or has knowledge of in connection with the Participant’s employment, and all other matters which relate to the business of the Corporation or any Affiliate and in respect of which information is not readily available in the ordinary course of such business to the Corporation's Competitors, whether or not such information (if in anything other than oral form) is marked confidential. “Competitor,” for purposes of this Section 19, means a person or entity who engages in a business that is the same or substantially the same as any aspect of the Business of the Corporation. “Business of the Corporation,” for purposes of this Section 19, is the development, production, sales and/or marketing of # health and hygiene products and related apparel; # washroom and workplace protective and safety products; and # the materials, packaging and other components/subcomponents of such products including, without limitation, non-wood plants and products derived therefrom including any fibers, pulps or extracts. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant’s residence or principal place of employment on the date of acceptance of this Award Agreement is in the States of California, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Washington or in any other jurisdiction where any provision of this Section 19(b) prohibiting post-employment competition is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law, then the provisions of this Section 19(b) will not apply to the extent any such provision is prohibited or otherwise restricted by applicable law.
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