Dear Sirs
We act on behalf Mr Right Silly, a former director of Redacted Capital Limited, and write in connection with an online article of yours entitled “The Continuing Adventures of Someone Retired”.
Your article is essentially a humorous biography of Someone Retired, who was also a director of Redacted Capital Limited at the same time as our client. Our client has no connection whatsoever to Someone Retired apart from this.
As you explain in your webpage, Redacted Capital Limited went into liquidation 2008 as a result of the banking crisis. Since then our client has established a new firm called Stupid Investment. While our client’s business is finding it challenging (as many others are too) in the current economic climate, he understands that potential investors undertaking background searches on him and Redacted Capital Limited are identifying your webpage. While we acknowledge that your webpage does not name our client, the reference to Redacted Capital Limited, in the context of connecting it to Mr Barrow in a negative manner, is hurting our client’s business. The reference to Redacted Capital Limited is also placed closely to pictures of Bernie Madoff and Philip Green, who you will appreciate are seen in a very poor light by the general public and investors.
On behalf of our client, we are therefore writing to you to see whether you would be prepared to remove reference to Redacted Capital Limited from the webpage and replace it with a generic term of equivalence, such as "investment fund". This would assist our client insofar as potential business contacts would not be greeted with the webpage upon google searching the word "Redacted", yet it would maintain the integrity of your webpage. Indeed, if this change were made and if any person where to contact you requesting the name of the investment firm that Someone Retired previously worked at then my client would have no issue with you confirming that the company was Redacted Capital Limited
In finishing, our client’s firm is not a big company. He is not a stereotypical banker or hedge fund manager, but is rather an older man and founder and CEO of a small professional investment firm. The webpage in question is hurting his ability to earn revenue which, in turn, is having a detrimental effect on his personal and family finances. By extension, this is also hurting his staff and their families who depend on our client’s business being successful. There are only about 15 people at our client’s firm and we would ask you to consider this side of the equation when deciding whether to agree to our client’s request.
My client has no issue whatsoever with your webpage in general and understands that such articles and criticism of public figures, such as Someone Retired, is healthy for public debate. I’m afraid that in this specific case, an unintentioned and unfortunate side effect of the good work you provide to the public is that my client’s business prospects have suffered dramatically as a result.
In view of the above we look forward to hearing from you in due course.
Kind regards
Ben Wally
Partner
Very Posh Solicitors
W1
From Brian Damage to Anthony Miller
Mr Miller
For you I believe
If you can edit the page I can upload from here
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Mr D
From Mr Miller to Mr Wally and Mr Damage
Brian
It's old material - I can't be bothered to edit itand Right Silly has long retired
I think we can probably just take it down...
...as it is very very old now......besides which we don't want to be mistaken for the FT or I might end up working in the City again...
Been there.
Done that.
Got the pin striped suit.
I did ask Someone Retired if he was particularly bothered by the article but it seemed that he wasn't... or had an extremely thick skin...anyway, if someone feels victimised by it take it down.
That said one might venture the opinion that Mr Right Silly is more likely the architect of his own misfortunes than we are...?
At least I googled Redacted and all that came back were lovely pictures of Switzerland...
...but you never know.
When I used to do stock market valuations we seldom used Comedy Club websites as research resources but you never know...
Anyway, take it down... keep life simple...
Cheers
Anthony Miller
PS It did occur to me that one might try asking the question "What's it worth?"
but I have resisted the temptation on the basis that that sounded a bit blackmaily.
However, if Mr Right Silly would like to thank us for our cooperation perhaps he could make some kind of charitable donation to the Comedians Benevolent Fund
http://www.comedysupportact.org.uk/
I believe there are a lot of drains on its resources at the moment...
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