AlixPartners Wins ‘Nominal’ $7 From Former Head of Milan Office

AlixPartners LLP will get $7 in damages from Giacomo Mori, the former head of its Milan office, after a Delaware judge rejected the consulting firm’s trade secret and client-poaching claims Thursday while saying Mori’s breaches of confidentiality after being fired were mostly harmless.

Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick awarded the “nominal” damages in a 58-page ruling for Delaware’s Chancery Court, applying and interpreting both the state’s laws and those of Italy, where Mori won €1.7 million in severance pay last year after bringing a wrongful termination case.

McCormick ruled for AlixPartners on its allegation that Mori breached his partnership agreement ...