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An Inflexion employee posted on the company’s internal messaging app that she had a number of kittens for sale and asked if anyone wanted to buy them.
The Travers Smith secondee said he would take two, but one week later he told the seller he wanted to return them because they had fleas, sources said.
She refused, but over the next couple of weeks the Travers associate repeatedly messaged her to say that she needed to take the kittens back and refund him because their fleas meant they were not sold as described, sources told ROF.
His requests culminated in an eight page letter which set out “all his legal and statutory rights” and demanded that the seller take the cats back and refund him or he would initiate court proceedings against her, said sources.
At that point it’s understood that the Inflexion employee reported the Travers lawyer to HR, which contacted Inflexion’s head of legal, who called Travers’ head of private equity.
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