Hi there,
Have recently been involved in a dispute between myself and my ex business partner and would welcome some guidance on how I should go about taking things further. I have put my issue in a sequence of events as it is easier to explain!
- started limited company with my (ex) business partner
- decided it was time to depart from the company to explore other oportunities.
- an email exchange then followed on how to formally allow my departure, a structure on how to repay the 12K I put into the company, shares etc.
- He kept delaying this, so I paid my lawyer to produce and agreement which covered our email and verbal agreement and issued to him - no response
- We lost contact, I learn from a creditor that he has removed himself as a Director leaving me sole director of the company, and its debts.
- A winding up order was made by a creditor and I have been left to deal with the insovency agent and creditors.
- My ex business partner, then started a competitor company, utilised the orginal companies funds, equipment, website design and carried projects over from the original company.
- He has all of the original companies assests (PC's, desks etc) however, the office equipment was leased to his father in an attempt to save the equipment from liquidation.
I would like to know what I can do to:
- Get my money back (that he has used to fund the competitor company)
- Take back the original companies assests/equipment
- Take legal action against him for signing himself out of the company without my knowledge... Doesn't this require a serving directors signature? does this mean he has forged my signature? Is this a criminal offence?
Thanks, any guidance is much appreciated
D
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