Unless the salaried manager is himself a specialist lawyer, the legal scope of a non-competition clause very rarely corresponds to the literal interpretation that he may make of it.
Astaé assists executives on this technical issue of non-competition clauses, where the stakes can be very high: the executive may be faced with an employer seeking to avoid paying non-competition compensation upon termination or, conversely, it is sometimes the executive who is looking to leverage their network and expertise within another group.
Non-competition clauses are a frequent source of litigation.
We also intervene downstream to defend executives who are being sued for unfair competition.
