NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit by Daryl Hall over John Oates‘ plan to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission…
A lawsuit by Daryl Hall over John Oates’ plan to sell his share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without the other’s permission headed Thursday to court, where a judge will decide whether to keep pausing the deal.
Chancellor Russell Perkins in Nashville said he would rule Thursday on whether, and how, to extend the pause on the sale of Oates’ share of Whole Oats Enterprises LLP to Primary Wave IP Investment Management LLC, while the music duo moves through the early stages of arbitration.
The joint venture in question includes Hall & Oates trademarks, personal name and likeness rights, record royalty income and website and social media assets, according to a court declaration by Hall, who has called Oates’ planned sale the “ultimate partnership betrayal. ″
Christine Lepera, an attorney for Hall, said she hasn’t heard anything from Oates’ legal team indicating that there’s some urgency in closing the deal.
“You cannot sell half of a partnership to a third party without the other party’s consent, and that’s just intuitively correct,” Lepera said.
An attorney for Oates, Tim Warnock, said Hall’s claims that Oates went behind his back are untrue.
