Shopee fails to prevent former employee from joining ByteDance

E-commerce firm Shopee Singapore has failed in court to prevent its former senior employee from joining rival ByteDance, which operates TikTok and online shopping TikTok Shop. Justice Kwek Mean Luck dismissed the platform’s claims to seek interim injunctions to prevent Mr Lim Teck Yong from accepting employment with ByteDance, and to prevent him from soliciting its clients and employees.

In a judgment on Jan 31, the judge said the online shopping platform had failed to prove that its claim that Mr Lim had breached non-competition restriction terms of his employment was not frivolous. Shopee, which was represented by Mr Clarence Ding Si-Liang and Ms Ariane Kea Tong from JWS Asia Law Corporation, had submitted that Mr Lim had acquired information while participating in regular meetings where the company’s strategies and priorities for all markets were shared and discusse

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