新西兰就业法院奥克兰分院周二举行听证会，Jarden 公司的法律团队辩称，该公司前联席首席执行官 Dan Reynolds 与联席投资银行主管 Silvana Schenone “表现恶劣”，充当 Barrenjoey Group 的“内应”，从内部策划并实施了一项计划，挖角十多名 Jarden 员工。
Two former top Jarden bankers “behaved poorly” and acted like an “insider” for Barrenjoey Group to orchestrate a plan from within to poach the investment firm’s staff and lure them across, a court heard Tuesday. At a hearing in New Zealand’s Employment Court in Auckland, Jarden’s legal team argued the firm’s former co-Chief Executive Officer Dan Reynolds and co-Head of Investment Banking Silvana Schenone participated in Barrenjoey’s move to hire more than a dozen Jarden’s staff.
代表 Jarden 出庭的御用大律师 Brian Dickey 表示：“至少存在有力的表面证据表明，他们参与了 Barrenjoey 的挖角行动，通过对该行动在整个 Jarden 业务范围内的协调、规模和深度来实施。这需要内部人士的协助。” 即将离职创办 Barrenjoey 新西兰业务的 Reynolds 和 Schenone 未出席庭审。
“There is at least strong prima facie evidence that they participated in the Barrenjoey raid by the coordination of it, by the scope, scale and depth of it right through the Jarden business,” said Brian Dickey, King’s Counsel acting on behalf of Jarden. “That needed the assistance of an insider.”Reynolds and Schenone, who are leaving the firm to establish Barrenjoey’s New Zealand business, were not present in court.
代表 Reynolds 和 Schenone 的御用大律师 Philip Skelton 称，没有证据显示两人有不当行为，并将 Jarden 的诉讼称为“探底式调查”。“目前他们几乎没有或完全没有不当行为的证据，” Skelton 说，“他们只有怀疑。他们说：‘哦，你们应该推断被告参与了某种协同挖角行动。’ 被告否认所有这些指控。”
Philip Skelton, a King’s Counsel acting on behalf of Reynolds and Schenone, said there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the two and called Jarden’s court action a “fishing expedition.”“At the moment they have very little if any evidence of wrongdoing,” Skelton said. “They have suspicion. They say, ‘Oh, you should draw an inference that there’s been some sort of coordinated raid going on involving the defendants.’ The defendants have denied all of that.”
7 月下旬，Barrenjoey 宣布在新西兰设立业务，并从 Jarden 挖走包括 Reynolds 和 Schenone 在内的 14 名银行家。Jarden 此前表示，Barrenjoey 还接触了另外 17 名员工，但 Jarden 说服他们留了下来。
In late July, Barrenjoey announced it was establishing a New Zealand business and hired 14 bankers, including Reynolds and Schenone, from Jarden. Jarden has previously said that another 17 employees were approached by Barrenjoey, but it persuaded them to stay.
Jarden 提起诉讼，旨在获取由 Reynolds 和 Schenone 的律师持有的克隆手机及其他数据和材料。Jarden 在之前的法庭文件中表示，它需要这些材料以确定是否有机密信息被分享给竞争对手、客户是否被不当招揽，以及员工协同跳槽至 Barrenjoey 是否利用了其设备、系统或数据进行策划。
Jarden is taking the court action to get access to cloned phones and other data and material held by Reynolds and Schenone’s lawyers. Jarden has said in previous court submissions that it needs the material to determine whether confidential information was shared with competitors, whether clients were improperly solicited and whether the coordinated departure of employees to Barrenjoey was planned using its devices, systems or data.
Skelton 表示，双方对手机的所有权存在争议，Reynolds 和 Schenone 均将这些手机用于工作和个人用途，同时对手机上的数据所有权，特别是非工作相关信息的所有权也存在争议。
Skelton said there was a dispute over who owned the phones, which Reynolds and Schenone both used for work and personal use, and who owned the data on the phones, in particular the non-work related information.
与此同时，Dickey 强调了 Reynolds 和 Schenone 同一天辞职的巧合，以及元数据显示他们的辞职信是在二者宣称收到 Barrenjoey 聘书之前撰写的。
Meanwhile, Dickey highlighted the coincidence of Reynolds and Schenone resigning on the same day, as well as metadata showing their resignation letters were written before they swore they had received offers from Barrenjoey.
Dickey 表示：“这当然表明讨论一直在进行，时间远超那一天。当你在此基础上再叠加 Reynolds 作为母公司董事的受托义务，明知他本人以及一名高级核心员工都在认真考虑离职，却未向董事会报告，就任何基本的受托义务评估而言，这都将构成违约。” 案件仍在审理中。
“It certainly suggests discussions have been ongoing for longer than that day,” Dickey said. “And when you layer over top of that the fiduciary obligations of Mr Reynolds as a director of the parent company, knowing that both he, but also an employee, a senior lead employee, are thinking seriously about leaving, to not report that to the board, with respect to any basic assessment of a fiduciary obligation would be a breach.”The case continues.