U.S. Rower’s Menswear Line Hit by Brewer’s Records Suit

Rowing Blazers Ltd., a menswear company run by a former world champion U.S. rower, was sued by a 150-year-old New Zealand brewer that says it was duped into investing $1.5 million.

Jack Carlson, who was coxswain of a three-time world champion U.S. rowing team, founded Rowing Blazers in 2016, according to the complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court by The Campbell & Ehrenfield Co. The suit seeks access to Rowing Blazers’s corporate records under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

CEC allegedly invested in five rounds between June 2018 and last April based on Carlson’s claim that he’d raised $1 million ...