we asked 100 people: 'Besides 'Main' Pages, name another section of TV Tropes.' Trope-tan? 4, 2016.Ray Combs: This last Bullseye question is worth $5,000, here we go. The court ruled against the family in that suit, the Journal article said.

Soon after Margarita Louis-Dreyfus became chairman of the holding company’s supervisory board, family members sued the trust, saying they were being denied information. She then became more involved in the business, the Journal article said.

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus became chairman of the supervisory board of a holding company controlled by the trust in 2011. In 2010, the other two protectors resigned and were replaced after she accused them of having conflicts of interest, the Journal article said. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus was one of the protectors. The trust was overseen by a family foundation with three “protectors” who could decide whether to distribute income. The Journal report noted that “Commodities have been under pressure since 2011, and years of family bouts and executive turnover have taken a toll on the company as it steers a course through the downturn.”Ĭiting unnamed sources, the Journal said Margarita Louis-Dreyfus’s “swift rise in the company following the death of her husband, Robert, in 2009 hadn’t been anticipated by either him or his wider family.”īefore he died, Robert Louis-Dreyfus set up a trust that held his controlling share of the family holding company that controls a majority stake in the commodities trader. “But she is doing so at a time when the company’s valuation has fallen on the back of weaker commodity prices.” Margarita Louis-Dreyfus is seeking an investor, the article said. Louis-Dreyfus more time to raise the money she needs to buy the family out.” The court case involves “a seemingly technical argument over who can be involved in valuing the family’s stake in the company,” the Journal article said. They are dissatisfied with the leadership of the group’s chairman, Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, who married into the family, the Wall Street Journal reported.Ī faction within the family want to reduce their stake from 20% to about 3%, the article said. Members of the Louis Dreyfus family, who own one of the world’s largest commodities traders, have gone to a Dutch court in an effort to exit from the 165-year-old business.

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