Ivan R. Novich

Ivan has significant experience handling, litigating, and advising clients on noncompete, restrictive covenant, and trade secret cases, including but not limited to:

United States District Court, District of New Jersey

In the wireless solutions provider industry, Ivan successfully obtained a court order holding a former employee in contempt for violating the terms of a preliminary injunction restricting the former employee from violating his nonsolicitation agreement.

In the insurance brokerage industry, Ivan successfully obtained a temporary restraining order restricting a team of former employees from violating their nonsolicitation obligations to their former employer. The former employees left in concert with each other to go to a competitor and immediately began soliciting and servicing their former clients.

United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia

In the cybersecurity industry, Ivan successfully defended a client and its new employee against preliminary injunction application filed by the employee’s former employer. In that case, Ivan argued that the two cybersecurity companies did not compete with each other because they did not offer the same cybersecurity products and solutions.

New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, Union County

In the petroleum and petrochemical industry, Ivan successfully vacated a temporary restraining order, which enjoined a new employee from working for his new employer and violating his nonsolicitation obligations.