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HR tech giant Deel says it has officially accepted to be served effectual document in its on-going court battle with rival Rippling in Ireland . This ends weeks of suspense afterRippling ’s bailiff could n’t find Deel ’s execsto serve them — only for Deel ’s CEO and top lawyerto change state up in Dubai .
Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz , along with Deel attorney Asif Malik and Andrea David Mieli , all agreed to accept religious service through Deel ’s Irish law firm today , Deel confirmed to TechCrunch . Deel Inc. , which is Deel ’s U.S. entity , was already served on April 16 , an affidavit file away by Rippling this first light in Irish court shows .
“ Today in royal court in Dublin Hayes Solicitors agreed to accept armed service on behalf of all four party , ” a Deel interpreter told TechCrunch .
In the affidavit filed this morning , Rippling reprize that it had n’t been capable to serve Bouaziz , Malik , and Mieli , detailing its efforts to do so in France and Italy . For example , Rippling hired French bailiffs to serve Bouaziz at a list address in Paris on April 10 , but only trip up upon a relation who told them Bouaziz was in Dubai .
On April 15 , TechCrunch reported Bouaziz was in Dubai , with Deel not responding to postulation for comment at the time . However , 10 day later , Deel recount TechCrunchthat Bouaziz “ lives in Israel ” and was only in Dubai for a few years to lionise Passover .
TechCrunch inquire Deel if it can clarify where Bouaziz is presently located , but Deel go down , citing secrecy reasons .
Deel slammed the idea that its executives have been avoiding getting served , despite Rippling ’s fail attempts to do so through various process server . “ It ’s a misrepresentation that anyone was avoiding service and that narrative was clearly being used as a public smear maneuver , ” Deel ’s spokesperson sound out .
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Deel told TechCrunch that Malik ’s move to Dubai had been planned for over a year , well before Rippling ’s lawsuit . Regarding Andrea David Mieli , whom wavelet said in their affidavit they had been ineffectual to serve in Italy , Deel said he live and works from home in Italy and was useable .
The lawsuit shopping mall on Rippling ’s claims that Deel bribed one of its employee in Ireland , Keith O’Brien , to descry on its internal personal business on behalf of Deel . And O’Brien himself testify that he had been spyingin a lengthy affidavit .
After hebdomad of secretiveness , Deel is very publicly fighting back , filing a countersuit in the U.S. last week , making various accusation against Rippling , including that it cultivated its own insider inside Deel .
In response , Rippling CEO Parker Conradtook to Xto post , “ Nowhere does Deel argufy our key allegement — that@Bouazizalexpersonally recruited a spy to slip wavelet ’s trade mystery , and personally directed the theft . ”
wavelet did not answer to a request for comment .
