Health Care Today | Health Law Blog

This is Part 1 in a two-part series. Part 1 will focus on employee non-compete assignability in asset purchase transactions, and Part 2 will address stock purchase or merger transactions.

Health care employers such as medical groups or hospitals have a valuable stake in protecting their businesses interests by having covenants not to compete in place for important employees such as physicians. Whether these non-competes are assignable by a seller to a buyer can be an important consideration in structuring a business transaction involving the purchase of a health care business enterprise.