Bloomberg Law
Jan. 18, 2017, 8:25 PM UTC

Dershowitz Adds Star Power to Heated TransPerfect Fight

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By Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News

The normally staid Delaware Supreme Court got a bit of celebrity drama on Wednesday as famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz urged justices to reverse a decision forcing the sale of a profitable software company.

TransPerfect Global Inc. was put up for sale in May after a judge concluded its owners — ex-lovers whose business relationship later soured — were deadlocked over the firm’s direction. Co-founder Philip Shawe is seeking to block the sale while his mother, a minority investor, is turning to Dershowitz, best known for defending big-name criminal defendants like O.J. Simpson and Claus von Bulow, to ...

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