When CEOs fall out with firms: Lessons from Old Mutual saga

A legal battle between Old Mutual, the South African-based pan-African investment, savings and insurance group, and its chief executive Peter Moyo has dominated business news headlines for the past eight months.

The drama has involved vitriolic public attacks, numerous court cases and claims and counter claims from both parties. It is seldom that such extensive publicity is given to the dismissal of a chief executive of a listed company and to the inner conflicts in a company.