Exhibit 10.4


  


CONFIDENTIALITY AND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT


 


This CONFIDENTIALITY
AND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), is made and entered into as of the 27th day of October, 2014
(the “Effective Date”), by and between Campus Crest Communities, Inc. (“Campus Crest”), and Scott
Rochon, an individual (the “Executive”) (the Company and the Executive are hereinafter sometimes collectively
referred to as the “Parties”).


 


 


WITNESSETH :


 


WHEREAS, Campus Crest
and Executive have entered into an employment agreement (the “Employment Agreement”) on a date even herewith;
and


 


WHEREAS, Campus Crest,
as a condition of entering into the Employment Agreement with Executive, desires to obtain certain restrictive covenants from Executive,
as described below, and Executive is willing to agree to such restrictive covenants in consideration of the material employment,
compensation and benefits set forth in the Employment Agreement.


 


NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and mutual covenants contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which is mutually acknowledged, Campus Crest and Executive agree as follows:


 


Section 1. Definitions.


 


(a) “Board”
shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.


 


(b) “Cause”
shall have the meaning set forth in the Employment Agreement.


 


(c) “Change
in Control” shall have the meaning set forth in the Employment Agreement.


 


(d) “Competitive
Business” shall mean the development, construction, acquisition, sale, marketing or management of facilities whose primary
function and purpose is student housing and/or the provision of third party student housing services to providers of student housing.


 


(e) “Confidential
Information” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3 hereof.


 


(f) “Developments”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7 hereof.


 


(g) “Good
Reason” shall have the meaning set forth in the Employment Agreement.


 




    	 



    	 



    

  


(h) “Restricted
Period” shall mean the period commencing on the Effective Date and ending on the second (2nd) anniversary
of Executive’s Termination Date (as defined in the Employment Agreement).


 


(i) “Company”
shall mean Campus Crest and any parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies of Campus Crest.


 


(j) “Services”
shall mean (a) providing managerial, operational or executive-level oversight, (b) providing strategic guidance, (c) providing
any additional services of the type that Executive performed for Company. Executive acknowledges and agrees that these are the
services that Executive is performing and will perform for the Company.


 


Section 2. Reasonableness of Covenants.


 


Executive acknowledges
and agrees that (A) the agreements and covenants contained in this Agreement are (i) reasonable and valid in geographical and temporal
scope and in all other respects, and (ii) essential to protect the value of the Company’s business and assets, (B) by his
employment with the Company, Executive will obtain specialized and confidential knowledge, contacts, know-how, training and experience
at significant expense to the Company and there is a substantial probability that such knowledge, know-how, contacts, training
and experience could be used to the substantial advantage of a competitor of the Company and to the Company’s substantial
detriment, and (C) the restrictive covenants and agreements in this Agreement are material consideration for the compensation and
benefits provided to Executive under the Employment Agreement.


 


Section 3. Confidential Information.


 


At any time during
and after the end of Executive’s employment with the Company, without the prior written consent of the Board, except to the
extent required by an order of a court having jurisdiction or under subpoena from an appropriate government agency, in which event,
Executive shall use his best efforts to consult with the Board prior to responding to any such order or subpoena, and except as
required in the performance of his duties under the Employment Agreement, Executive shall not disclose any confidential or proprietary
trade secrets, customer lists, drawings, designs, information regarding product development, marketing plans, sales plans, manufacturing
plans, management organization information, operating policies or manuals, business plans, financial records, packaging design
or other financial, commercial, business or technical information (a) relating to the Company, or (b) that the Company may receive
belonging to suppliers, customers or others who do business with the Company (“Confidential Information”). Executive’s
obligation under this Section 3 shall not apply to any information which (i) is known publicly; (ii) is in the public domain or
hereafter enters the public domain without the breach of the Executive of this Section 3; (iii) is known to Executive prior to
his receipt of such information from the Company, as evidenced by Executive’s written records; or (iv) is disclosed after
termination of Executive’s employment to Executive by a third party not under an obligation of confidence to the Company.


 




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Section 4. Non-Competition.


 


Executive covenants
and agrees that during the Restricted Period, in any State of the United States of America in which the Company conducts business,
has purchased or is under contract to purchase real estate to conduct business or has identified specific sites as potential future
development opportunities, Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, whether individually or as principal, partner, officer,
director, consultant, contractor, employee, stockholder or manager of any person, partnership, corporation, limited liability company
or any other entity provide Services for a Competitive Business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Executive may, directly or indirectly,
own, solely as an investment, securities of any entity engaged in a Competitive Business which are publicly traded on a national
or regional stock exchange or on the over-the-counter market; provided that Executive (A) is not a controlling person of, or member
of a group which controls, such entity and (B) does not, directly or indirectly, own 2% or more of any class of securities of any
such entity.


 


Section 5. Non-Solicitation; Non-Interference.


 


During the Restricted
Period, Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, for his own account or benefit or for the account or benefit of any other
individual or entity, nor shall he directly or indirectly assist any person or entity to (i) encourage, solicit or induce, or in
any manner attempt to solicit or induce, any person employed by, as agent of, or as service provider to, the Company to terminate
such person’s employment, agency or service, as the case may be, with the Company; or (ii) divert, or attempt to divert,
any person, concern, or entity from doing business with the Company, or attempt to induce any such person, concern or entity to
cease being a customer or supplier of the Company. This provision (ii) applies to those persons, concerns, or entities that were
actual or potential customers or suppliers of the Company during the time period of Executive’s employment with the Company
and with which Executive or those he supervised had contact on behalf of the Company.


 


Section 6. Non-Disparagement.


 


Executive will not at any time, during or
after the Term of the Employment Agreement, disparage, defame or denigrate the reputation, character, image, products or services
of the Company, any of the Company’s directors, officers, stockholders, members, employees or agents. The Company will not,
except as may be required by law, issue any official press release or statement which could disparage Executive.


 


Section 7. Return of Documents.


 


In the event of the termination of Executive’s
employment for any reason, Executive shall deliver to the Company all of (i) the property of the Company, and (ii) the documents
and data of any nature and in whatever medium of the Company, its customers, suppliers, investors or other third parties who entrusted
such documents or data to the Company, and he shall not take with him any such property, documents or data or any reproduction
thereof, or any documents containing or pertaining to any Confidential Information.


 




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Section 8. Works for Hire.


 


Executive agrees
that the Company shall own all right, title and interest (including patent rights, copyrights, trade secret rights, mask work rights
and other rights throughout the world) in any inventions, works of authorship, mask works, ideas or information discovered, created,
made, conceived or reduced to practice, in whole or in part, by Executive (either alone or with others) during the Term of Employment
that relate to the Company’s business activities (the “Developments”); provided, however,
that the Company shall not own Developments for which no equipment, supplies, facilities, trade secret information or Confidential
Information of the Company was used and which were developed entirely off of Company premises and on Executive’s own personal
time, and which do not relate (A) to the business, plans, or affairs of the Company, or (B) to the Company’s actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development (“Excluded Developments”). Executive agrees to assign, and hereby does assign to
the Company all right, title and interest in and to any and all of these Developments with the sole exception of those that Executive
demonstrates are Excluded Developments. Executive agrees to assist the Company, at the Company’s expense, to further evidence,
record, confirm, effect, enable and perfect such assignments to Company, and to perfect, obtain, maintain, enforce, and defend
all rights, title, and interest specified to be so owned or assigned. To the extent permissible by law, Executive hereby irrevocably
designates and appoints the Company and its agents as attorneys-in-fact to act for and on Executive’s behalf to execute and
file any document and to do all other lawfully permitted acts to further the purposes of the foregoing with the same legal force
and effect as if executed by Executive. In addition, and not in contravention of any of the foregoing, Executive acknowledges that
all original works of authorship which are made by him (solely or jointly with others) within the scope of employment and which
are protectable by copyright shall to the extent possible under U.S. law be considered “works made for hire,” as that
term is defined in the United States Copyright Act (17 USC Sec. 101). Further, to the extent that Company is not considered the
author and original owner of any Developments, Executive agrees to waive and hereby does waive any and all interests or rights
in the nature of paternity, integrity, disclosure and withdrawal and any other rights or interests that may be known as or referred
to as “moral rights” under the law of any jurisdiction. To the extent Executive retains any such moral rights or other
rights or interests under applicable law, consents to any action consistent with the terms of this Agreement with respect thereto,
in each case, to the full extent of such applicable law. Executive will confirm any such waivers and consents from time to time
as requested by the Company.


 


Section 9. Enforceability and Reformation;
Severability.


 


The Parties intend
for all provisions of this Agreement to be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by law. Accordingly, in the event that any
provision or portion of this Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, for any reason, under
present or future law, such provision shall be severable and the remainder thereof shall not be invalidated or rendered unenforceable
or otherwise adversely affected. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if a court should deem any provision of this
Agreement to create a restriction that is unreasonable as to scope, duration or geographical area or otherwise, the Parties agree
that the court may modify or blue pencil the provisions of this Agreement and that the provisions shall be modified and enforceable
in such scope, for such duration and in such geographic area as any court having jurisdiction may determine to be the longest period
and/or greatest size permissible and reasonable under the law.


 




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Section 10. Injunctive Relief.


 


Without intending
to limit the remedies available to the Company, Executive acknowledges that a breach of any of the covenants contained in this
Agreement may result in material irreparable injury to the Company for which there is no adequate remedy at law, that it will not
be possible to measure damages for such injuries precisely and that, in the event of such a breach or threat thereof, the Company
shall be entitled to obtain a temporary restraining order and/or a preliminary or permanent injunction, without the necessity of
proving irreparable harm or injury as a result of such breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, restraining Executive from
engaging in activities prohibited by this Agreement or such other relief as may be required specifically to enforce any of the
covenants in this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, the Restricted Period shall be tolled during
any period of violation of any of the covenants in Section 4 or Section 5 hereof and during any other period required for litigation
during which the Company seeks to enforce this covenant against Executive if it is ultimately determined that Executive was in
breach of such covenants.


 


Section 11.  Fees And Costs.


 


If either Party initiates
any action or proceeding to enforce any of its rights hereunder or to seek damages for any violation hereof, then, the Parties
shall bear their respective costs and expenses of any such proceeding; provided, that, in addition to all other remedies
that may be granted, the prevailing Party shall be entitled to recover its reasonable attorneys’ fees and all other costs
that it may sustain in connection with such action or proceeding.


  


Section 12. Successors and Assigns.


 


This Agreement shall
inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, and may be assigned by the Company to, any purchaser of all or substantially all
of the Company’s business or assets, any successor to the Company or any assignee thereof (whether direct or indirect, by
purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise). Executive shall not have the right to assign any of his rights or obligations under
this Agreement.


 


Section 13. Waiver and Amendments.


 


Any waiver, alteration,
amendment or modification of any of the terms of this Agreement shall be valid only if made in writing and signed by the parties
hereto; provided, however, that any such waiver, alteration, amendment or modification is consented to
on the Company’s behalf by the Board. No waiver by either of the parties hereto of their rights hereunder shall be deemed
to constitute a waiver with respect to any subsequent occurrences or transactions hereunder unless such waiver specifically states
that it is to be construed as a continuing waiver.


 




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Section 14.  Governing Law.


 


This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina (without giving effect to the choice of law principles thereof)
applicable to contracts made and to be performed entirely within such state.


 


Section 15. Section Headings.


 


The headings of the
sections and subsections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute a part thereof
or affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement or of any term or provision hereof.


 


Section 16. Entire Agreement.


 


This Agreement constitutes
the entire understanding and agreement of the parties hereto regarding the subject matter hereof. This Agreement supersedes all
prior negotiations, discussions, correspondence, communications, understandings and agreements between the parties relating to
the subject matter of this Agreement.


 


Section 17. Counterparts.


 


This Agreement may
be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original but all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument. The execution of this Agreement may be by actual or facsimile signature.


 




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IN WITNESS WHEREOF,
the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.


 






	 	CAMPUS CREST COMMUNITIES, INC.
	 	 
	 	By:	/s/ Donald L. Bobbitt, Jr.
	 	 
	 	Name:  Donald L. Bobbitt, Jr.
	 	 
	 	Title:  Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary
	 	 
	 	EXECUTIVE:
	 	 
	 	/s/ Scott R. Rochon
	 	Scott R. Rochon







 




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