Legal Opinion
Whitney Holdings, Ltd. v. Givotovsky
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 24, 1997No. 96 CIV. 8388(LAK)PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Whitney Holdings, Inc. brings suit against its former director, general counsel and founding shareholder, Sergei Givotovsky, for breach of fiduciary duty and for fraud. Simply put, Whitney alleges that Givotovsky personally performed services for and received compensation from a Whitney client in violation of his duty of loyalty to the firm. The fact that Givotovsky failed to disclose his individual arrangement with the client, as his fiduciary status allegedly required, forms the basis of Whitney’s fraud claim.
Givotovsky moves for summary…
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