For many businesses, competitive advantage is a key factor for success. Protecting against competition allows companies to maintain or enhance this edge. This helps businesses retain or grow their market share, which can lead to increased profits and financial stability. In this area, we focus primarily on prevention, as it is crucial for sustaining competitiveness.

For our clients, we:

• Develop and implement procedures and policies to protect confidential information.
• Prepare confidentiality agreements and advise on securing trade secrets.
• Draft non-compete agreements tailored to the specific nature of the client’s industry, including clauses ensuring the enforceability of non-compete obligations for former employees.
• Create and implement procedures to identify and prevent conflicts of interest.
• Conduct training and workshops on non-compete clauses, conflicts of interest and confidential information protection, emphasising practical aspects and real-life examples.
• Help minimise the negative consequences of potential breaches, enforce damage recovery and stop further violations.
• Represent clients in disputes with individuals who breach non-compete obligations, confidentiality duties or who engage in conflicts of interest or acts of unfair competition (e.g. inducing employees to terminate contracts with their employer).
• Provide crisis management practices, offering clients PR and communication support in internal and external relations in the event of violations involving unfair competition, non-compete breaches or conflicts of interest (e.g. confidential information leaks or poaching of employee groups by competitors).

Recent Projects:

• Developed internal procedures addressing issues such as employee relationships, supervisor-subordinate romances, or hiring related individuals in competing entities, to minimise risks (protecting employer interests and employee privacy).
• Advised a financial sector client during pre-trial stages and subsequently represented them in a court dispute against a former board member concerning a breach of a non-compete clause.