<human>: Michigan here.  Wanted to buy a company with a particular employee that was being under compensated and underdeveloped.  A chemist.  Owner of the company said they would not talk until we signed a non-disclosure agreement he had drafted.  

My partner signed the damn thing without reading it.  Inside was a clause saying we could not hire any of his current or former employees for two years.  This was last March.  He fired the Chemist and we want to hire him and help him save his house.  His former boss has black listed him for all of S.E. Michigan.  Bit the hand that fed him by talking with us about how he was feeling under appreciated for his work and ideas that remained unimplemented.

I asked our attorney if we could seek relief from the agreement based on deception.  No reasonable person would expect a non compete clause in what was described to my too trusting partner, as a simple non disclosure agreement so we could look at their books and offer a fair market value for the company.

After the NDA was signed the owner cut off all communications and says the company will never be sold as long as he is alive.

I think he did it to enslave his employee and lock us out of employing him once he tried to get the chemist to quite through draconian tasks and punishments and then when that failed, then fired him and fought him receiving unemployment.

Our lawyer billed us for $200 and said, there is nothing that can be done and make sure to put all agreements over his desk before signing, from now on

No details as to why we cannot sue for relief.  Is he lazy or is there something special about how Michigan makes an NDA with a hidden non-compete, unbreakable?

We would still buy the company for a fair price, or buy out the owner to release us from the agreement concerning former employees of theirs.

Money is no problem for us, we want this guy working and supporting his family again, ASAP.

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<bot>: Django Unchained scene with the contract negotiation about buying back his wife lives on in contract law, in Michigan.  We are trying to buy the freedom of an enslaved Chemist.