McGuireWoods Hit With Records Demand in Suit Over Energy Deal

An importer-exporter who says two former partners and their attorneys at McGuireWoods LLP used dirty tricks to strip their joint venture of its assets has accused the law firm of sitting on the records he needs to prove it.

McGuireWoods won’t give Andrew J.C. Kunian any of the legal work it did setting up a deal to export natural gas from Texas to Chile on behalf of two companies he co-owned with Francis Smollon and Colin Williams, according to the April 11 complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court.

Kunian has already sued Smollon and Williams in Massachusetts, claiming they had ...