Former Covad GC’s Derivative Suit Settles for $7 Million

Posted on Friday 29 February 2008

Covad Communications and its ex-general counsel have finally laid to rest a sordid, six-year saga of allegations of self-dealing directors, sexual harassment and retaliatory firing. Covad directors have agreed to pay the Silicon Valley telecom company $7 million to settle a derivative suit originally filed by former GC and co-founder Dhruv Khanna after he was fired in 2003, accusing directors of wasting money and enriching themselves at the expense of shareholders.

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