Bloomberg Law
Jan. 18, 2017, 10:22 PM UTC

Goldman, Ex-Programmer Fight Over Fees, Title in Appeals Court

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By Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News

A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer, cleared of charges he stole the investment firm’s computer-trading codes, can’t prove he’s an executive entitled to have fees covered in legal disputes, one of the bank’s lawyers argued Wednesday.

Sergey Aleynikov may have had a vice president’s title, but he didn’t have the kind of managerial authority that made him one of the investment bank’s corporate officers, Christopher Duffy, a lawyer for Goldman Sachs, told the Delaware Supreme Court.

Aleynikov “failed to prove that someone who has had the bare title of vice president qualified” as a ...

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