Knowledge, skills, reputation and relationships lie at the heart of every successful business. They are all assets entrusted to employees on a daily basis which need to be protected.
Protection can come in the form of suitably drafted contracts of employment including confidentiality and restrictive covenant clauses. These are designed to protect a business should any of its senior employees leave to join a competitor or to set up a rival business of their own.
How Hill Dickinson can help
Hill Dickinson’s team of specialist employment lawyers can advise clients on the most effective way to protect their business interests. We can provide expert advice and support with:
- Reviewing existing practices to determine whether they are sufficiently robust or put business assets at risk
- Drafting restrictive covenants to ensure clients have the business protection they need
- Preparing confidentiality agreements
- Enforcing or defending claims involving restrictive covenants in the High Court, including injunction applications
- Recruiting senior employees from competitors
- Negotiations and dispute resolution
- Strategic planning to deter employees from moving to a competitor
Key contacts
Head of Practice Group: Employment and Pensions
Jeff Middleton
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7260
- jeff.middleton@hilldickinson.com
In addition to a raft of internal promotions, Hill
Dickinson LLP’s Liverpool office also acquired a team of four from
Halliwells led by Kerstie Skeaping, adding significant experience
in tribunal hearings, and in trade union matters and industrial
relations. Jeff Middleton now leads the team.
This
team has a strong reputation for advising NHS clients, and it
continues to grow on the corporate side, too. Recent highlights
include representing the Law Society in High Court proceedings
relating to TUPE. Other notable clients include Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust, Iceland Foods and the North West Development
Agency.
