UBS Financial Services, Inc. v. Efron
Efron sued UBS's U.S. entity for an accounting and a pure bill of discovery seeking records of accounts his parents opened with UBS's separate Swiss affiliate. The Third District reversed the judgment compelling the accounting and discovery, holding that shared branding and membership in the same global corporate family does not establish that the domestic corporation controls or has a legal right to the foreign affiliate's records.
Key facts
- Efron sued UBS Financial Services, Inc. (the U.S. entity) seeking an accounting and discovery of records of accounts his parents opened with UBS's Swiss affiliate.
- Efron sought to compel the domestic UBS corporation to produce records belonging to the foreign affiliate based on their shared corporate family and brand name.
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Why it matters
The opinion supplies a clear Florida appellate statement of the 'control and legal right to obtain' standard for extracting a foreign affiliate's records from a domestic corporate sibling, importing the Eleventh… — full analysis with a trial
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