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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Change Is Coming: Texas Healthcare Provider Non-Competes Subject to New Strict Limits

Holland & Knight LLP on 6/24/2025

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on June 20, 2025, signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1318, which creates greater restrictions on physician non-compete agreements in Texas and, for the first time, extends such restrictions to non-compete...more

Limits on Physician Noncompete Agreements: Navigating New State Laws and Legislation

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/12/2025

As anticipated, following the end of the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule prohibiting employer noncompetes, states have ramped up their efforts toward limiting noncompete agreements, including some states that have...more

California Legislature Introduces Two Bills Regulating Private Equity in Health Care

Alston & Bird on 3/6/2025

Our Health Care Group breaks down two California bills (SB 351 and AB 1415) that would regulate private equity’s and hedge funds’ roles in managing health care and dental practices....more

FTC Issues in Healthcare

Dentons on 5/7/2024

The Federal Trade Commission recently propounded a rule regarding non-competes. This is complicated, as is demonstrated by the extensive FTC comments that are a hundredfold longer than the regulation itself. Of significant...more

FTC Final Rule Banning Most Non-Competes Passes – What Nonprofits Need to Know

Polsinelli on 4/29/2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) conducted a special Open Commission Meeting to vote on a Final Rule (the “Rule”) banning most non-compete clauses as an “unfair method of competition.” By a vote of 3-2,...more

Unpacking California’s 2024 Employment Laws: Key Changes Employers Need to Know

Troutman Pepper Locke on 12/14/2023

California enacted several new employment laws for 2024, summarized below, including expanded paid sick leave, leave for reproductive loss, protections for employee cannabis use, additional noncompete enforcement limitations,...more

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