Two years since it started, the legal battle between Web Summit’s three founders has taken a new twist. Shareholder Daire Hickey is applying to amend his oppression suit in light of the recent turmoil at the tech-event firm that saw Paddy Cosgrave replaced by Katherine Maher as chief executive, following an outcry over his tweets on the Israel-Gaza conflict. A week after the company’s flagship event in Lisbon, senior counsel Brian Conroy came into the Commercial Court on behalf of Hickey’s firm Lazvisax to apply to amend his client’s statement of claim in the shareholder oppression suit it has lodged against…

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