EY Australia Wins Access to Details on Partners’ Move to Rival

Ernst & Young LLP’s Australian arm has won the right to access documents in a suit regarding mass defections to rival Alvarez & Marsal.

EY Oceania was granted access to documents held by five former partners and Alvarez & Marsal in a ruling by New South Wales Supreme Court Justice Michael Meek published July 3.

EY is seeking evidence to back its suspicion that the five partners copied and exchanged information about EY clients with Alvarez & Marsal, breaching their EY partnership agreement, before Alvarez & Marsal offered them positions in 2023.

All the defendants, who worked in EY’s ...