Our experience includes working with financial services companies, hospitality industry clients, technology and media entities, entertainment companies, service providers, energy companies, manufacturers and industrial interests, healthcare organizations, staffing services, executive search firms and recruiters, pharmaceutical companies and their sales and marketing professionals, and beyond. Some representative matters include:
- Prosecuting claims for a global consulting firm that lost 35 senior professionals due to competitor’s disregard of noncompete and nonsolicitation covenants and related business torts. Defeated competitor’s attempt to preemptively litigate the case in California, where noncompetes are not enforced, and successfully prevailed on all pretrial motions with case scheduled to be tried to a jury in 2021.
- Litigated cases for more than a decade for a Wall Street investment bank in state and federal courts in New York and nationally and FINRA arbitrations involving onboarding and exiting employees; theft of trading algorithms, customer lists and other trade secrets information; and solicitation of client relationships.
- Defending a large healthcare system in a matter involving claims brought by a former senior vice president of business development for failure to pay commissions, and counterclaims by the client for breach of noncompete and nonsolicitation covenants, tortious interference, and bonus repayment. On behalf of the company, we obtained a temporary injunction against the former employee and are further seeking a permanent injunction to prevent him from working for three years in violation of his restrictive covenants. In December 2019, we obtained summary judgment on liability against the former employee on breach of his noncompete and nonsolicitation covenants. On the eve of the trial, the matter settled at terms highly favorable to our client.