Brian Gilbertson woke up on New Year's Day 2007 with a plan that he knew could cause him trouble.
Gilbertson is a big dealmaker who helped forge BHP Billiton into a behemoth.
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So why was Gilbertson anxious, as he later described himself in court documents?
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Vekselberg contends in his suit that this maneuver violated Gilbertson's fiduciary obligations to Vekselberg's investment vehicle, Renova Resources Private Equity.
This last-minute demand was intended to increase "the likelihood of my agreeing to their demands, " Gilbertson says in a court-filed affidavit.
Vekselberg was about to install Gilbertson as chairman of the world's biggest aluminum corporation when Vekselberg finished merging his aluminum company, Sual, with Rusal.
Vekselberg, 53, and Gilbertson, 67, have known each other since 2004, when Vekselberg convinced Gilbertson to run Sual, the aluminum producer Vekselberg cobbled together in the 1990s.
"A lot of sheriffs are now standing up and saying, 'Follow the Constitution, '" said Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilbertson, whose territory covers the timbered mountains of southwestern Oregon.
Feeling cheated and secretly cut out of the deal, Vekselberg later sued Gilbertson in the Cayman Islands, a suit that he has doggedly pursued and is slated for trial next year.
Feeling cheated and secretly cut out of the deal, Vekselberg later sued Gilbertson in the Cayman Islands, a suit that he has doggedly pursued with no publicity and is slated for trial next year.
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"We need that side of the story, " said photographer Ashley Gilbertson, whose photographs of Iraq many of which have appeared in the New York Times have tended to focus on civilians and U.S. troops.
But Gilbertson claims that days before the deal with Unilever Vekselberg demanded that in return for his funding he wanted to own the intellectual property himself and most of a company that would build a business around it.
But Gilbertson claims that days before the deal with Unilever was set to go, Vekselberg demanded that in return for his funding he wanted to own the intellectual property himself and most of a company that would build a business around it.
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