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WeWork directors seek to preserve right to sue owner SoftBank – Source Reuters Tech News

(Reuters) – A special committee of WeWork board members filed a motion in Delaware on Monday to prevent it from being disbanded, as it pursues legal action against majority owner SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) over an abandoned $3 billion tender offer for the office space-sharing start-up.

FILE PHOTO: A WeWork logo is seen at a WeWork office in San Francisco, California, U.S. September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kate Munsch

It is the latest salvo in a heated legal dispute between the two sides. WeWork’s special committee, which represents minority shareholders in the company including its co-founder Adam Neumann, is contesting SoftBank’s decision to walk away from the tender offer agreed last year.

In the motion, WeWork’s special committee, filed a “status quo order” which would preserve the committee’s authority pending the outcome of the legal case between WeWork and SoftBank. A judge in Delaware court last month set the trial date for the case for early January.

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