Lil Wayne secured a authorized victory in New York as a choose dominated his former legal professional Ron Sweeney isn’t entitled to a $20 million contingency payment.

Lil Wayne walked away with a courtroom win in New York after a choose dominated his ex-attorney Ron Sweeney isn’t entitled to a $20 million reduce from the rapper’s previous offers.

The choice, handed down Tuesday by Judge James D’Auguste, ends a drawn-out authorized conflict that started in 2018 when Wayne fired Sweeney and later sued him over what he referred to as an “exorbitant” 10% contingency payment.

That charge, Wayne argued, was double the business normal for leisure legal professionals.

Wayne contends that over the course of their 13-year skilled relationship, he overpaid Sweeney and that no additional compensation is owed.

Sweeney had represented him from 2005 till his firing in 2018, a interval that noticed Wayne’s rise to Hip-Hop royalty.

Sweeney responded along with his personal lawsuit, demanding a multimillion-dollar payout from transactions he claimed to have helped arrange earlier than his termination.

These included a confidential settlement with Cash Money Records and the nine-figure sale of Young Money’s master recordings to Universal music Group.

But the court docket wasn’t shopping for it.

The choose additionally blocked Sweeney from accessing discovery associated to Wayne’s earnings from these offers, limiting him to solely in search of “reasonable fees” that have to be supported by proof.

Wayne’s legal professional, Jonathan Davis, praised the end result, telling Billboard, “After an almost seven-year battle in multiple courts in New York and California, lawyers can rest a little easier. The rule of law still matters and will be applied faithfully by courts.”

The authorized battle provides to Wayne’s lengthy historical past of courtroom fights tied to his music empire.

From 2015 to 2018, he was locked in a $51 million lawsuit in opposition to Cash Money over withheld royalties and delayed album releases.

The ruling arrives as Wayne continues to develop his enterprise ventures. He lately offered his Young Money catalog to Universal for over $100 million.

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