restrictive covenant

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Over the last few years, compared to the last few decades, the trend of courts in many states has been to be less willing to enforce restrictive covenants based on closer scrutiny of nuances such as the legitimate business interest in the scope of the restrictions. This development is consistent with the increasing number of…

Rolando Diaz of the Lewis Brisbois Delaware office prepared this post.

          The Court of Chancery refused to enforce a restrictive covenant in Sunder Energy, LLC v. Jackson, 2023 Del. Ch. LEXIS 580 (Del. Ch. Nov. 22, 2023). Chancery subsequently approved, with thorough reasoning, an interlocutory appeal to the Supreme Court–which makes its own…

The Delaware Court of Chancery granted a TRO recently to enforce a covenant-not-to-compete, or non-compete agreement, notwithstanding a liquidated damages provision and the (unsuccessful) argument that such a provision created the absence of irreparable harm needed for injunctive relief. In Affinity Wealth Management LLC v. McPoyle, C.A. No. 2019-0441-JTL, transcript (Del. Ch. June 18,…