🤔 The vessel sank Monday — killing one of the 22 people on board — after its mast, one of the world’s tallest, broke in half during the storm. Fifteen people have been rescued.

Lynch, a 59-year-old tech investor and entrepreneur, was acquitted in June in a fraud trial linked to the multi-billion dollar sale of Autonomy, the software firm he co-founded, to Hewlett Packard. Prosecutors alleged that Lynch had schemed to inflate Autonomy’s revenue prior to the sale.

Morvillo, an American lawyer at Clifford Chance, was involved in successfully defending the case against Lynch. Clifford Chance declined to comment when contacted by CNN.

One survivor, Charlotte, 35, described how she battled to hold onto her one-year-old daughter, Sofia, as a barrage of waves sank the yacht, according to a report from Italian news agency ANSA.

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