Court pa­pers out­line an an­gry show­down be­tween Pas­cal So­ri­ot and a de­part­ing Luke Miels

Pas­cal So­ri­ot has known and worked with Luke Miels for more than a decade. He men­tored Miels at Aven­tis, re­cruit­ed him to Roche and then wooed him on to As­traZeneca af­ter tak­ing the helm 5 years ago. But when GSK of­fered him a new job as phar­ma chief, the gloves came off.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port in The Sun­day Times, So­ri­ot took of­fense when Miels told him about his new job. Miels could go any­where, he re­port­ed­ly told him, ex­cept to his UK ri­vals at GSK. And he al­leged­ly an­gri­ly re­mind­ed Miels that As­traZeneca had spon­sored the work visa he need­ed to live in the UK.

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