For nearly a decade, whenever a SoftBank investment turned sour, Masayoshi Son would call upon his in-house fixer Marcelo Claure to solve the hitch.
It was Claure’s belief in his record of company turnrounds that led a demand of at least $1bn in compensation last year, people with knowledge of the interaction said.
The battle over that payout — which Son thought was informal scribbling on a sheet of paper, but Claure believed constituted a written agreement — was at the heart of the conflict between the two billionaires.
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