A-B and SpikedSeltzer Inventors Headed to Trial Over Earnout Clash

Dear Client: After quietly simmering in Connecticut Superior Court the past three years, a contract dispute between Anheuser-Busch and the inventors/investors of SpikedSeltzer is headed to trial. The dispute centers on whether A-B underpaid earnout bonuses owed from its 2016 acquisition of Boathouse Beverage, makers of SpikedSeltzer. And the heart of the issue is the interpretation of Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer: was it another product/brand of Boathouse Beverage, or a competing product to Boathouse’s original SpikedSeltzer? You see, according