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How long is too long? Construing non-compete restrictions in shareholders' agreements
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
Corp. Brief. 2020, Apr, 4-6
Subject
Duration
Employees
Enforcement
Interpretation
Non-competition covenants
Shareholders
Shareholders' agreements
Company law
Language
English
ISSN
0950-6209
Abstract
Comments on Guest Services Worldwide Ltd v Shelmerdine (CA) on whether a 12-month post-termination restrictive covenant in a shareholders' agreement was longer than was reasonably necessary to protect the company's legitimate business interests where the covenant bound employee shareholders while they were shareholders and for 12 months after they ceased to be shareholders, and the claimant shareholder had ceased to be an employee/consultant.

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