Employment & Non-Compete Agreements Counsel for Food & Beverage Acquisitions
When the deal is food and beverage and the question is Employment & Non-Compete Agreements, the structure decisions in the first 30 days outlast the next five years. This is where Jason Powell works.
Employment & Non-Compete Agreements on food and beverage deals is one of those workstreams that looks routine on a checklist and decides outcomes in practice.
The typical food and beverage platform sits at $10M to $120M EV with EBITDA in the $2M to $20M range. The thesis runs on CPG roll-up or co-packing platform with regional bolt-ons. Treat trade spend like a working capital item, not a marketing line. The valuation moves accordingly.
How Employment & Non-Compete Agreements actually gets structured.
Negotiate seller non-competes to the maximum enforceable scope, by state law.
Refresh key employee restrictive covenants pre-close, where possible.
Address the FTC non-compete rule and its state-by-state aftermath.
Tie executive non-competes to retention bonus economics that survive a quick exit.
In food and beverage, layer in co-pack capacity agreement re-papered as part of the Employment & Non-Compete Agreements workstream.
Drafting a national-scope non-compete in California. Enforceability is a binary, not a spectrum.
"A non-compete is only as strong as the state it sits in. Draft for the state, not the deal."Jason Powell · Employment & Non-Compete Agreements
The deal is one thing. The capital that opens up after close is another.
Refinancing, recaps, growth rounds, and the right strategic conversation eighteen months early are all downstream of relationships that take years to build and minutes to use.
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Independent sponsor counsel that already speaks fluent deal-by-deal economics, structures clean LPAs, and travels with capital markets relationships for what comes after close.