Centerview’s Ex-Partner Takes Pay Fight to Delaware Top Court

David Handler may never have been truly a partner with an equity stake at Centerview Partners Holdings Inc., but the elite M&A advisory boutique still owes him compensation under a 2008 letter agreement, his attorney argued Wednesday before Delaware’s highest court.

A Delaware Chancery Court decision to toss Handler’s claims that Centerview’s founders defrauded him was based on “an extraordinarily thin read,” of a previous opinion that found he had some rights to compensation, said Handler’s attorney, Christopher Clark of Clark Smith Villazor LLP.

Handler shouldn’t get a “do-over,” said Centerview’s attorney, Michael Barlow of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & ...