PHOTO: ROSS WILLIS/STUFF Corporate raider Ron Brierley checking the fashions at the Ice Breakers extravaganza. September 15, 1987.
It wasn’t long after famed corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley was arrested at Sydney airport this week that the emails from his business foes started flooding in.
Business people who had found themselves on the wrong side of corporate raids by the 82-year-old Brierley during his long career took out their rusted axes and started to grind away, slinging insults at the Kiwi-born millionaire who had just been released on bail after being charged with six counts of possessing child abuse material.
In response to at least one particularly vicious message sent by a businessman still smarting over a business bingle with renowned value investor Brierley, the multi-millionaire’s response was short and simple.
“Thanks,” Brierley said in an email exchange seen by the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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