Bloomberg Law
Feb. 2, 2017, 12:19 AM UTC

TransPerfect’s Shawe Escalates Company Feud With Defamation Suit

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By Jef Feeley, Bloomberg News

The battle over control of TransPerfect Global Inc. intensified after one of the company’s co-owners accused lawyers for his estranged partner of destroying his reputation by making false statements to reporters.

Phil Shawe, TransPerfect’s co-CEO, contends attorneys for fellow Chief Executive Liz Elting lied about his conduct and painted him in a derogatory light, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 31 in state court in Manhattan.

The suit joins at least three other cases spawned by the bitter fight over the future of New York-based TransPerfect.

Shawe and Elting, once engaged to be married, are ...

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