"A bad arrangement is better than a good trial."
Roger Farah, the president of Tiffany, and Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH, may have been pondering this Balzacian maxim since the Delaware civil court began, on September 21, to consider the dispute between the American jeweler and the giant French luxury.
That day, after an hour and a half of debates on Zoom, Judge Joe Slights urged the two parties to negotiate to avoid the trial demanded by Tiffany, whose date he had just set for January 5, 2021:
“S 'acting from two companies so well associated with the holiday season, there may be productive discussions to avoid a lawsuit.
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