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  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
  • Yasemin Tekiner in her individual capacity, as a beneficiary and a Trustee of The Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust and derivatively as a holder of equitable interests in a shareholder or a member of the Company Defendants v. Bremen House Inc., German News Company, Inc., Berrin Tekiner, Gonca Tekiner, Billur Akipek in her capacity as a Trustee of the Yasemin Tekiner 2011 Descendants Trust, Zeynep Tekiner (Intervenor Plaintiff)Commercial Division document preview
						
                                

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FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 01/31/2023 04:02 AM INDEX NO. 657193/2020 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1190 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 01/31/2023 EXHIBIT 58 FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 01/31/2023 04:02 AM INDEX NO. 657193/2020 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1190 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 01/31/2023 From: Topping, Sean Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 11:22 AM To: Evan Mandel; Leah Vickers Cc: Shomik Ghosh; Younger, Stephen P.; McDonough, Joanna; Archer, Judith A.; Corder, Victoria; Ward, Luke Subject: Tekiner v. Bremen House - Aykal Documents & Deposition Evan and Leah, I wanted to follow up with you concerning issues raised at last week’s meet and confer concerning Gurer and the NRF subpoena. As it concerns the subpoena to NRF, we informed you that the Defendants already collected and produced certain final corporate and trust files in the possession of NRF that were not privileged. We also reiterated our objections to the subpoena to NRF as overly broad and unduly burdensome in that it seeks documents that are predominately privileged and, to the extent they are not, are likely to be in our clients’ possession and already produced to the extent responsive. We did, however, agree to get a better sense of the scope of the universe of communications in NRF’s possession that exist between NRF and Third Parties and that pre-date the litigation. That is underway and we anticipate having a response regarding what production NRF will make, if any, next week. As it concerns the subpoena duces tecum to Gurer Akyal, we reiterated that Mr. Akyal is not relevant to this dispute by virtue of the fact that he has nothing to do with the management of the Companies or Yasemin’s Trust, and that we have declined to search his documents for the reasons stated in our objections and responses to the subpoena. We again noted that his communications with Berrin will be subject to the spousal privilege. We agreed on the call that the parties appear to be an impasse on his documents; however, in an effort to resolve this dispute without court intervention, we agree to search for and produce any documents, to the extent they exist, reflecting any benefit Mr. Aykal received from the Companies. As it concerns Mr. Aykal’s deposition, we reiterated what we told you previously – that we will produce Mr. Aykal for a deposition concerning the topic of whether he received any benefits from the companies, but we object to your asking him questions about irrelevant and personal topics, including the health and mental conditions of individual defendants. When we raised this objection with you at a prior meet and confer concerning Mr. Aykal, you had seemed to understand our position. However on last week’s call, you attempted to argue that such an objection was improper. It is not improper and we reiterate our objection in writing and our intent to instruct him not to answer such questions. We will not permit Mr. Aykal to testify about irrelevant, private, highly sensitive mat ters concerning Berrin or Gonca’s alleged health and mental states. Of further concerning note, you made a representation on the call concerning Mr. Akyal that is false and we must correct your misunderstanding. The Companies have not purchased or rented a house in Turkey for Mr. Aykal, as you claimed they have. Best, Sean Sean Topping | Associate Pronouns: he / him / his Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019-6022, United States Tel +1 212 318 3361 | Fax +1 212 318 3400 1 FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 01/31/2023 04:02 AM INDEX NO. 657193/2020 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 1190 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 01/31/2023 sean.topping@nortonrosefulbright.com NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT Law around the world nortonrosefulbright.com 2