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The Company Founder Who Got Fired for Ignoring His Own Return-to-Office Rules
A former executive alleges his fellow co-owners used the policy as an excuse to push him out of the asset-management firm he helped run
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July 4, 2026 5:30 am ET
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It isn’t just the rank-and-file facing return-to-office crackdowns. The co-founder of an $8 billion asset-management firm was ousted for not complying with his own in-office policy—and now he is suing.
William Nieporte ran the firm Bramshill Investments with two high-school classmates for about a decade before they fired him in 2022. The reason: “You have willfully and deliberately failed to report to ‘in-person’ work,” the other co-owners wrote in a termination letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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