Paul Goulding KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, practising in employment and sports law. He also sits as an arbitrator, is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and a Specialist Member of the Football Association Judicial Panel. He has acted as an expert witness on English law of restrictive covenants and has been instructed in many employee competition cases including X-R Touring v Javor, Dare v Soliman & Hikmet, McLaren v Palou, Petter v EMC, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay, Sunrise Brokers v Rodgers, Aon v JLT, ICAP v Berry, Willis v JLT, and Computer Systems v Ranson. He has been the Editor of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave since its first edition in 2007 and is a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018).Tom Croxford KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, with a practice that encompasses High Court and statutory employment cases, company, partnership and LLP disputes, civil fraud and asset recovery. He is instructed in the full range of complex employee competition litigation, with particular expertise in dealing with complex financial services, accounting and IT issues. His recent employee competition cases include the striking down of long non-compete covenants in a quantitative trading firm and the defence of an arbitration concerning whether the architecture of trade modelling software amounted to a trade secret. Tom has been involved in leading cases concerning all aspects of employee competition throughout his career. He has been a chapter lead of Employee Competition since its first edition.Diya Sen Gupta KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and Head of the Employment and Partnership Group. Her recent cases on injunctive relief include Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd v Ngoma and Clyde & Co LLP v Jalan. Her employee competition cases include X-R Touring v Javor, Avalon Capital Markets Ltd v Rose, Jefferies International Ltd v Cantor Fitzgerald, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay and ICAP v Berry. Diya contributed to the 2nd and 3rd editions of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave, and was a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018). She was Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association (2019-2021). Diya was shortlisted for the Senior Counsel of the Year award (International Employment Lawyer Awards 2024) and for the Employment Silk of the Year award (Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024 and Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023).Craig Rajgopaul KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers who specialises in employment and partnership law. Having acted in all of the leading team move claims, from BGC v Tullett through QBE v Dymoke to Guy Carpenter v Willis, he is regularly instructed to seek or resist applications for urgent injunctive relief in cases involving restrictive covenants, confidential information or allegations of an unlawful means conspiracy. He has extensive experience of acting for partners and LLPs in disputes arising out of the partnership relationship, including in arbitrations (amongst other things) to enforce restrictive covenants, or disputing the validity of an expulsion. He also brings a strategic approach to disputes involving claims proceeding in different fora (for example the High Court, arbitration and Employment Tribunal), drawing upon his in-depth knowledge of discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

Paul Goulding KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, practising in employment and sports law. He also sits as an arbitrator, is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and a Specialist Member of the Football Association Judicial Panel. He has acted as an expert witness on English law of restrictive covenants and has been instructed in many employee competition cases including X-R Touring v Javor, Dare v Soliman & Hikmet, McLaren v Palou, Petter v EMC, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay, Sunrise Brokers v Rodgers, Aon v JLT, ICAP v Berry, Willis v JLT, and Computer Systems v Ranson. He has been the Editor of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave since its first edition in 2007 and is a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018).Tom Croxford KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, with a practice that encompasses High Court and statutory employment cases, company, partnership and LLP disputes, civil fraud and asset recovery. He is instructed in the full range of complex employee competition litigation, with particular expertise in dealing with complex financial services, accounting and IT issues. His recent employee competition cases include the striking down of long non-compete covenants in a quantitative trading firm and the defence of an arbitration concerning whether the architecture of trade modelling software amounted to a trade secret. Tom has been involved in leading cases concerning all aspects of employee competition throughout his career. He has been a chapter lead of Employee Competition since its first edition.Diya Sen Gupta KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and Head of the Employment and Partnership Group. Her recent cases on injunctive relief include Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd v Ngoma and Clyde & Co LLP v Jalan. Her employee competition cases include X-R Touring v Javor, Avalon Capital Markets Ltd v Rose, Jefferies International Ltd v Cantor Fitzgerald, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay and ICAP v Berry. Diya contributed to the 2nd and 3rd editions of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave, and was a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018). She was Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association (2019-2021). Diya was shortlisted for the Senior Counsel of the Year award (International Employment Lawyer Awards 2024) and for the Employment Silk of the Year award (Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024 and Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023).Craig Rajgopaul KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers who specialises in employment and partnership law. Having acted in all of the leading team move claims, from BGC v Tullett through QBE v Dymoke to Guy Carpenter v Willis, he is regularly instructed to seek or resist applications for urgent injunctive relief in cases involving restrictive covenants, confidential information or allegations of an unlawful means conspiracy. He has extensive experience of acting for partners and LLPs in disputes arising out of the partnership relationship, including in arbitrations (amongst other things) to enforce restrictive covenants, or disputing the validity of an expulsion. He also brings a strategic approach to disputes involving claims proceeding in different fora (for example the High Court, arbitration and Employment Tribunal), drawing upon his in-depth knowledge of discrimination and whistleblowing claims.

Paul Goulding KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, practising in employment and sports law. He also sits as an arbitrator, is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), and a Specialist Member of the Football Association Judicial Panel. He has acted as an expert witness on English law of restrictive covenants and has been instructed in many employee competition cases including X-R Touring v Javor, Dare v Soliman & Hikmet, McLaren v Palou, Petter v EMC, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay, Sunrise Brokers v Rodgers, Aon v JLT, ICAP v Berry, Willis v JLT, and Computer Systems v Ranson. He has been the Editor of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave since its first edition in 2007 and is a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018).Tom Croxford KC is a member of Blackstone Chambers, with a practice that encompasses High Court and statutory employment cases, company, partnership and LLP disputes, civil fraud and asset recovery. He is instructed in the full range of complex employee competition litigation, with particular expertise in dealing with complex financial services, accounting and IT issues. His recent employee competition cases include the striking down of long non-compete covenants in a quantitative trading firm and the defence of an arbitration concerning whether the architecture of trade modelling software amounted to a trade secret. Tom has been involved in leading cases concerning all aspects of employee competition throughout his career. He has been a chapter lead of Employee Competition since its first edition.Diya Sen Gupta KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and Head of the Employment and Partnership Group. Her recent cases on injunctive relief include Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd v Ngoma and Clyde & Co LLP v Jalan. Her employee competition cases include X-R Touring v Javor, Avalon Capital Markets Ltd v Rose, Jefferies International Ltd v Cantor Fitzgerald, Imam-Sadeque v BlueBay and ICAP v Berry. Diya contributed to the 2nd and 3rd editions of Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave, and was a contributor to Sport: Law and Practice (4th edn, 2021) and Football and the Law (2018). She was Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association (2019-2021). Diya was shortlisted for the Senior Counsel of the Year award (International Employment Lawyer Awards 2024) and for the Employment Silk of the Year award (Legal 500 Bar Awards 2024 and Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023).Craig Rajgopaul KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers who specialises in employment and partnership law. Having acted in all of the leading team move claims, from BGC v Tullett through QBE v Dymoke to Guy Carpenter v Willis, he is regularly instructed to seek or resist applications for urgent injunctive relief in cases involving restrictive covenants, confidential information or allegations of an unlawful means conspiracy. He has extensive experience of acting for partners and LLPs in disputes arising out of the partnership relationship, including in arbitrations (amongst other things) to enforce restrictive covenants, or disputing the validity of an expulsion. He also brings a strategic approach to disputes involving claims proceeding in different fora (for example the High Court, arbitration and Employment Tribunal), drawing upon his in-depth knowledge of discrimination and whistleblowing claims.