Exhibit 10.4
NON-SOLICITATION,
NON-COMPETITION,
NON-DISCLOSURE AND
CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
In consideration of my employment or
continued employment by Omni National Bank (“Company”)
and in further consideration of a payment in the amount of Seventy
Five Thousand ($75,000.00) Dollars, the receipt and sufficiency of
which are hereby acknowledged, I, Jeffrey L. Levine, S.S. #
(Intentionally Omitted) , who resides at (Intentionally
Omitted), (“Employee”) agree to the
following:
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A.
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Non-Solicitation: Customers
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During my employment and for one
(1) year immediately following the cessation of my employment
with the Company for any reason, I shall not, on my own behalf or
on behalf of any person, firm, partnership, association,
corporation or business organization, entity or enterprise (except
Company), solicit any customer of the Company, or any
representative of any customer of the Company, with a view to
selling or providing any product, equipment or service competitive
with any product, equipment or service of the Company Business, as
defined herein, during the twelve (12) month period
immediately preceding cessation of my employment with the Company,
provided that the restrictions set forth in this section shall
apply only to customers of the Company, or representatives of
customers of the Company, with whom I had material contact during
such twelve (12) month period. “Material contact”
exists between myself and each of the Company’s existing
customers: (i) with whom I actually dealt for a business
purpose while employed by the Company or to further a business
relationship between the customer and the Company; or
(ii) whose business dealings with the Company were handled,
coordinated or supervised by me.
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B.
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Non-Solicitation: Employees or Sales
Representatives
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During my employment and for one
(1) year immediately following the cessation of my employment
with the Company for any reason, I will not solicit or in any
manner encourage employees of the Company to leave the employ of
the Company. The foregoing prohibition applies only to employees
with whom I had material contact pursuant to my duties during the
twelve (12) month period immediately preceding cessation of my
employment with the Company. “Material contact” means
interaction between myself and another employee of the Company:
(i) with whom I actually dealt; or (ii) whose employment
or dealings with the Company or services for the Company were
handled, coordinated or supervised by me.
C. Non-competition . I
acknowledge that my specialized skills, abilities and contacts are
important to the success of the Company, and agree that I shall
faithfully and strictly adhere to the terms hereof. I acknowledge
that by reason of the character and nature of the Company’s
business activities and operations, and further by reason of the
scope of the territory in which I perform and will perform the
Services (as defined below), in order to protect the
Company’s legitimate business interests it is necessary for
me to agree not to engage in certain specified activities in such
territory at any time during my employment and for a period of time
thereafter. Therefore, at all times during my employment with the
Company, and for a period of two (2) years thereafter, I will
not, directly or indirectly, within the Territory (as defined
below), (a) for myself, (b) as a consultant, manager,
supervisor, employee or owner of a Competing Business
(as defined below), or (c) as an
independent contractor for a Competing Business, engage in any
business in which I provide services which are the same as or
substantially similar to the Services. “Competing
Business” shall mean any person, business or entity who or
which sells, markets or distributes products and/or sells,
furnishes or provides services substantially the same as those
sold, marketed, distributed, furnished or supplied by the Company
during the term of my employment with the Company.
“Territory” shall mean the geographic area encompassed
within a sixty (60) mile radius of the Company’s office
at 1100 Abernathy Road, Atlanta, Georgia. I agree that the Company
and I may amend the definition of “Territory” from and
after the date hereof to reflect any significant contraction or
expansion of the geographical area in which I actually perform the
Services. “Services” shall mean the manager of the
operations department for warehouse lending.
1. TRADE SECRETS. I acknowledge that
the Company is engaged in the business (“Company
Business”) of Commercial and Retail Banking, and the Employee
will be employed in a specialized area commonly referred to as:
“redevelopment lending”. Redevelopment lending can be
further described as lending money to borrower who acquire
dilapidated, inner-city single and multi-family homes, who after
acquisition, re-habilitate those structures for occupancy and/or
sale. I acknowledge that this highly specialized area of lending is
unique and to my knowledge there are no other banks conducting this
business in the geographical area as set forth above. I further
acknowledge that prior to joining the Company, I was not employed
in this line of business. I further acknowledge that in order to
conduct its business, the Company owns and uses trade secrets as
defined under applicable law (O.C.G.A. § 10-1-761(4)).
“Trade secret(s)” means information, without regard to
form, including, but not limited to, technical or non-technical
data, a formula, a pattern, a compilation, a program, a device, a
method, a technique, a drawing, a process, financial data,
financial plans, product plans, or a list of actual or potential
customers or suppliers which is not commonly known by or available
to the public and which information: (a) derives economic
value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and
not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons
who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and
(b) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the
circumstances to maintain its secrecy. I further acknowledge that
in the course of my employment with the Company and in order to
carry out my duties thereund