Courts across the country are increasingly scrutinizing restrictive covenants, with recent decisions signaling heightened risk for employers who rely upon restrictions contained in equity agreements ...

In July 2025, we published an article (see link below) that discussed considerations relating to rollover and incentive equity in management representations in private equity transactions. This blog ...

Employers rely on these provisions not only to protect trade secrets and client relationships, but to protect the return on their substantial investments in employee training. At the same time, ...

A Raleigh developer wants to build 12 four-story townhouses at 524 and 528 Barksdale Drive in east Raleigh’s Woodcrest subdivision. The city has approved the project but Steve Sypher, owner of Steve ...

Pete is managing shareholder of the firm’s Chicago office. He counsels employers on a wide variety of workplace challenges, including protecting trade secrets and other valuable information and ...

While we acknowledge that under some circumstances the enforcement of restrictive covenants, such as against low paid employees or interns, can be onerous, Assembly Bill 3715, recently voted out of ...

When comparing homes to buy, you may discover that some communities have restrictive covenants in place. These housing rules are most common in condominiums, townhomes, planned communities and ...

We've had an offer accepted on a house. It is owned by the diocese, so we're buying it from the church. I bought a copy of the title register from the Land Registry website and in it, it mentions a ...

Using a restrictive covenant in a 1938 deed, neighbors in the Tara-Leeway Heights neighborhood convinced a developer to build a single-family home instead of a duplex. The home, 1313 N. Harrison ...