Dershowitz Joins Transperfect Team Disputing Skadden Fees

Oct. 3, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz will represent Transperfect Global Inc. in its fee dispute with the Skadden partner appointed to run its forced sale following a controversial 2017 Delaware Supreme Court ruling.

A Delaware Chancery Court judge ordered the translation company sold in 2015, finding that co-founders Liz Elting and Phil Shawe were incapable of running it after their romantic relationship ended. He appointed Robert B. Pincus of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom as Transperfect’s custodian and tiebreaking director.

The state’s top court affirmed the appointment, upholding the judge’s authority to order the sale of a ...

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