Business protection

Our commercially minded team provides practical, end-to-end advice on all employee competition matters.

Our experience includes

• Representing UK-listed food manufacturer Bakkavor in an interim injunction application and subsequent expedited High Court proceedings for breach of confidence.
• Advising a FTSE 100 company in injunction proceedings against former senior employees and a competitor company for breach of confidential information.
• Acting for a national recruitment agency in a “team move” dispute.
• Advising a publishing group in defence of threatened discrimination claims made by three academic professors whose articles were rejected for publication, alleging this decision was driven by opinions they had expressed on social media. Our work included brand protection advice as the academics had contacted tabloid newspapers.
• Delivering urgent “crisis advice” to a manufacturer on a leak of highly confidential designs by an employee via social media, to achieve the client’s objective of the immediate removal of posts, protection of copyright and mitigating further dissemination of confidential information.
• Advising a gaming company in relation to the launch of a new product, involving advice on the protection of market sensitive/confidential information including disciplinary action and contractual protections arising from a social media leak/confidentiality breach from a senior employee.
• Advising on a highly confidential potential departure of a CEO requiring management of the risk of leaks, creation of a response plan, and drafting of public communications to be used in the event of any leaks.
• Advising a US network security company on a contentious dispute with its most senior UK executive. The high-value claims carried a public relations risk and were insured by a US insurer.