Jim Armitage: All quiet on the JKX front after stalled coup
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That's having a mixed success, as is his perceived attempt to take over Britain's JKX Oil & Gas. He and a fellow Ukrainian oligarch used strongarm tactics to attempt a boardroom coup last year. JKX lost a High Court case against them, but the Appeal Court has just overturned the decision.
Good. Lawyers such as Freshfields, earning fat fees from his case, will disagree with me, but the City could do without such characters.
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