Mohinderpal has a strong practice in High Court injunctions and speedy trials to enforce directors’ and fiduciaries’ duties, restrictive covenants, trade secrets and confidentiality, database rights, garden leave and economic torts (often involving team moves). His City clients include investment banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, inter-dealer brokers, insurance brokers, senior executives and equity partners. He is co-author with Selwyn Bloch KC of Springboard Injunctions (PLC).
- Business protection injunction and speedy trial: Represented Quilter in multi-week High Court trial involving breaches of fidelity, misuse of confidential information and restrictive covenants (Quilter Private Client Advisers Ltd v Falconer [2020] EWHC 3294 QB).
- Committal for contempt: successfully obtained permission to bring committal proceedings against former CEO for making false statements and breaching an injunction order (Advetec Holdings Ltd v Shaw [2020] EWHC 2660 QB).
- Team Move Injunction: Arthur J Gallagher Insurance Brokers Ltd & ors v Aston Scott Group Ltd & ors [2016] EWHC QB – resisted insurance industry team move conspiracy injunction.
- Garden leave injunction: Autoneum GB Ltd v Gilbert and HP Pelzer Holding GmbH [2016] EWHC QB – successfully obtained international garden leave and restrictive covenant injunction.
- Non-Compete Injunction: EG Solutions Ltd v Hughes and Nice Systems UK Ltd [2016] EWHC QB – resisted non-competition, confidentiality and non-inducement injunction brought by AIM listed software company.
- Springboard Injunction: Doncasters Limited v Smith & ors [2016] EWHC QB – acted for a US industrial client in successfully obtaining a springboard injunction restricting, as part of a cross-border team move conspiracy, the alleged transfer of trade secrets of military application to a foreign superpower in breach of export controls.
- Recruitment Industry Team Move: Search Consultancy Ltd v Kirk & ors [2016] EWHC Ch – springboard and client non-solicitation injunction arising from a team move.
- Breach of Director’s and Fiduciary Duties: Livingstone Holdings Ltd & ors v Allaway & ors [2016] EWHC QB – injunction to prevent breaches of fiduciary duties and team move conspiracy in the software industry.
- International Restrictive Covenants: RFIB Group Limited v Willis Bermuda Limited & ors [2015] EWHC QB – successfully obtained a cross-border non-competition and non-inducement injunction against a rival international specialist insurance and reinsurance broker arising from its recruitment in Bermuda of the President of RFIB’s Bermuda domiciled subsidiary, one of RFIB’s highest paid executives.
- Large Team Move: Spark Response Ltd v Wigham and others [2013] EWHC QB – account of profits claim arising from a 25 person team move and breaches of fiduciary duties and conspiracy.
- Anti-Strike Injunction: Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd v Unite the Union [2012] EWHC 267 QB, [2012] ICR 452, [2012] IRLR 452 Eady J.
- International Team Move: BGC Capital Markets (Switzerland) LLC v Tullett Prebon plc and others [2011] EWHC 2009 QB Jack J – Injunction and multi-week High Court trial relating to high value claim for breach of international restrictive covenants, confidential information, and Wrotham Park damages under Swiss law and inducement under English law.