{"id":17433,"date":"2010-08-18T08:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T16:58:06","slug":"occys-billabong-share-battle-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17433","title":{"rendered":"Occy&#8217;s Billabong Share Battle Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/806226-mark-occhilupo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/806226-mark-occhilupo.jpg','popup','width=316,height=421,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/806226-mark-occhilupo-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"806226-Mark-Occhilupo\" \/><\/a><strong>Mark Occhilupo&#8217;s<\/strong> former accountant, <strong>Noel Holmes<\/strong>, had sued the pro surfer in Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that he gave Occy $50,000 to buy 21,739 friends and family shares of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> stock just before it went public in 2000 and now he want&#8217;s the nearly $200,000 proceeds back. Occy apparently believed the shares belonged to him, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/08\/17\/2985497.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But today it all got sorted out in an out-of-court settlement, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/business\/mark-occhilupo-and-his-former-accountant-in-discussions\/story-e6freqmx-1225906800369\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawyers for the disputing parties have spent most of today in private discussions. . . An out-of-court settlement was reached and details were not disclosed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As might not be surprising, Occy is glad it&#8217;s over and just wants to get back in the water. &#8220;&#8221;The first thing when I get back to the coast I&#8217;ll be going for a surf for sure and take my shirt off,&#8221; Occhilupo said outside court.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Occy&#8217;s suit worked. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Links: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/08\/17\/2985497.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ABC.net.au<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/business\/mark-occhilupo-and-his-former-accountant-in-discussions\/story-e6freqmx-1225906800369\" target=\"_blank\">Courier Mail<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Occhilupo&#8217;s former accountant, Noel Holmes, had sued the pro surfer in Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that he gave Occy $50,000 to buy 21,739 friends and family shares of Billabong stock just before it went public in 2000 and now he want&#8217;s the nearly $200,000 proceeds back. Occy apparently believed the shares belonged to him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17445,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/17445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}