Protecting your business with restrictive covenants

Restrictive covenants can help protect your business should a key employee leave your organisation. They will improve your chances of protecting:

• trade secrets
• confidential information
• other staff members
• existing clients

Although there is no guarantee that restrictive covenants will be enforced by a court, if properly drafted, they will provide you with the best possible opportunity to protect your organisation.

Restrictive covenants are extremely important if you have employees who could damage your organisation (financially or otherwise) when they leave. These could be senior employees who have been with you for a long time, employees who have extensive knowledge of your clients and suppliers, or employees who might poach your clients or other staff once they leave.

If you do not have restrictive covenants in place, you have little or no control over your employees once their employment ends.

Linder Myers can review your existing restrictive covenants against the business interests you are seeking to protect. If you do not have restrictive covenants, we can create a set of restrictive covenants for you specifically tailored to your needs.