SUPREME
COURT
OF
THE STATE
OF
NEW
YORKCOUNTY
OF
NEW
YORK
UBS
AG and
UBS
SECURITIES LLC,
Plaintiffs,
-
gainst
-
JATIN
SURYAWANSHI,
PARTHA
SARKAR,
and
SANJAY
GIRDHAR,
Index
No.
COMPLAINT
Q9
Defendants.Plaintiffs
UBS
AG
and UBS Securities LLC (collectively,
“UBS”),
y theirundersigned attorneys, as their complaint against defendants Jatin Suryawanshi (“Suryawanshi”),Partha Sarkar (“Sarkar”), and Sanjay Girdhar (“Girdhar”), allege as follows:
Preliminarv
Statement
1.
This emergency action for injunctive relief arises outofthemisappropriation of trade secrets, breach
of
contract, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competitionand other wrongdoing by three
of
its employees, Suryawanshi,
Sarkar
and
Girdhar. Defendantshave collectively coordinated and planned together to move to
a
UBS
ompetitor, taken
UBS
trade secrets
-
ncluding more than
25,000
physical lines
of
source code for
UBS’
rade secretalgorithmic trading programs
-
deleted documents from
UBS
omputers to hide their acdand commenced performing services for their new employer, Jefferies
&
Cornpany$&f!.
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e
eo
+
“Jefferies”) while still
UBS
mployees.
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From defendants’ actions, it is clear that they intend to disclose,
%
wy
-
.
i
‘et
have already disclosed, vital
UBS
rade secrets, confidential and proprietary information
to
Jefferies. They
are
also in flagrant violation
of
the notice periods (the “Notice Periods”)
in
theircontracts with
UBS,
ursuant to which they remain
UBS
mployees until April
5,2009
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