news wrote on Saturday that former ski jumper Anders Jacobsen has sued the Swedish-owned padel company Just Padel Group (JPG). The reason for the dispute is the sale of a padel center that the former ski jumper owned together with JPG in Hønefoss until autumn 2021. At that time, JPG was owned by the former football profiles Jesper Mathisen and Ole Martin Årst, as well as two businessmen. Mathisen is today known as a football expert on TV 2. Jacobsen believes that the football profiles got him to sign a new shareholder agreement with a co-sale obligation, at the same time that they deliberately kept hidden an ongoing sales process with Swedish We Are Padel. JPG was later sold to the Swedish company for NOK 84 million. But the ski jumper and other local center owners have only been informed of a sales price of NOK 45.5 million. Jacobsen therefore claims that he received over NOK 3 million too little for the shares when the padel center was sold. The four former owners of JPG did not wish to comment on Jacobsen’s claims to news. Mathisen denied that the four former owners had done anything wrong, when the lawsuit first became known in November last year: – We strongly disagree with what Anders Jacobsen claims, and look forward to testifying in the case between Just Padel Group and Jacobsen in March, said Mathisen to VG. The TV 2 profile did not respond to news’s inquiries on Monday afternoon. Both Mathisen and Årst will testify in the Agder district court. They are not part of the lawsuit since it was JPG that bought Jacobsen’s shares before the Swedes took over the padel group. Padel has become very popular in a short time. The reason for the dispute, which is now coming to court, is the sale of a padel centre. Photo: Hanne Rebecca Nilsen / news It was claimed that key e-mails had been deleted – It has not been easy to find out what happened before the sale to We Are Padel, says Jacobsen to news. At the same time as the parties have prepared for trial, a parallel legal process has been running in both the district court and the court of appeal regarding which documents, e-mails and messages JPG has to share with Jacobsen. The company has rejected that Jacobsen should have access to the previous owners’ SMS correspondence. JPG also claimed that they can no longer find the football profiles’ email accounts. They must have been deleted when the company changed hands. The first versions of the share sale agreement the four former owners entered into with Swedish We Are Padel were no longer to be recovered either. After two rounds in the court, it is now clear that JPG must provide access to both private SMSs, e-mail accounts and previous agreements. According to the Agder Court of Appeal, it has been proven that JPG was not telling the truth about the kind of documentation they had at hand: “As the case has been presented to the Court of Appeal, there is evidence that JPG has withheld information about which documentary evidence they possess or can easily access” . Anders Jacobsen demands over NOK 3 million from the padel company Just Padel Group. Photo: Berit Roald / NTB – Tried to prevent access to evidence The former ski jumper is satisfied with the outcome in the Court of Appeal. – The fact that JPG is fighting so hard not to have to present evidence of what has taken place shows why I had no other choice but to go to the courts, says Jacobsen. His lawyer Jan Magne Isaksen from CMS Kluge says they had to obtain experts in digital traces to prove that the e-mail accounts had not been deleted as JPG claimed. – As lawyers, it is rare to experience such clear attempts to prevent access to evidence. The clear starting point is that the parties have a voluntary duty to ensure that the case is adequately disclosed, but here Anders Jacobsen has had to ask the courts for help, says Isaksen. It has been central to Jacobsen’s legal team to find out how the former owners of JPG agreed that the purchase price of NOK 84 million should be distributed. – JPG claimed they did not have access to the early drafts of the share purchase agreement with Swedish We Are Padel. The Court of Appeal has also found this to be incorrect, and the Court of Appeal points out that “JPG has in any case been in possession of three copies of the draft share purchase agreement”, says Isaksen. JPG has also been ordered to pay Jacobsen NOK 228,000 in court costs. Lawyer Jan Magne Isaksen represents Anders Jacobsen in the lawsuit against JPG. Photo: Agnieszka Iwanska / news Considering appealing to the Supreme Court Lawyer Yngve Andersen from Wigemyhr represents JPG. He writes in an e-mail to news that they are taking note of the Court of Appeal’s ruling, and that they are considering appealing it to the Supreme Court. – In our opinion, it is in principle to clarify what a defendant party can be ordered to obtain from alleged documentary evidence that the party itself does not possess, and which in addition requires consent and the transmission of evidence directly from actors who no longer have any connection to the defendant party, writes Andersen. He writes that JPG “disputes” that they have withheld documents that Jacobsen has requested access to. Andersen writes to news that JPG has requested that the trial be postponed next week as a result of the issue of evidence. – The district court has stated that it will decide on this petition during the coming Thursday, writes Andersen. For the record: Anders Jacobsen has previously been associated with news as a jumping expert. Editorial assessments are made independently of that.
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