{"id":445903,"date":"2026-05-13T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:18:08","slug":"finance-firm-will-robustly-defend-claims-it-tried-to-force-one-of-its-advisers-to-resign-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445903\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance firm will \u2018robustly\u2019 defend claims it tried to force one of its advisers to resign \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A financial services company which has been restrained by the High Court from taking any steps in relation to the employment and shares of one of its advisers says it has a robust defence to the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Michael Hoare (62), who set up Mentor Financial Services Ltd in 2002, claims that weeks after signing a shareholders\u2019 agreement with five others to expand the business, the others began trying to make his position in the company untenable in order to force him to resign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Last week, his lawyers were granted interim ex parte injunctions requiring the other shareholders \u2013 Elizabeth Lavin, Darren Nolan, John Flynn, Daniel McKeown and Adam Penrose, as well as the company itself \u2013 to continue to pay Hoare\u2019s salary pending resolution of the dispute or further order of the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The court heard that following conflicts between Hoare and other shareholders, he was told on April 17th that he should leave the firm. He brought proceedings and the case was adjourned to Tuesday to hear from the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/05\/06\/financial-adviser-gets-injunction-halting-efforts-to-force-him-out-of-company-he-founded\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Financial adviser gets injunction halting efforts to force him out of company he foundedOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Tuesday, barrister Roger Pope said his client denied the claims by Hoare and he required time to put in an affidavit which will robustly defend the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Brian Cregan agreed to adjourn the case to next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A financial services company which has been restrained by the High Court from taking any steps in relation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,73,61,60],"class_list":["post-445903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-high-court","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}