Wymont Services Limited v. Handal & Associates CA4/3

FACTS

Background The underlying case has visited this court twice. (See Lindsey v. Conteh (2017) 9 Cal.App.5th 1296 (Lindsey I) and Lindsey et al. v. Conteh et al. (Jan. 18, 2019, G054219) [nonpub. opn.] (Lindsey II).) This court has also decided an anti-SLAPP

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2 appeal in a related case (Conteh et al. v. Wymont Services Limited et al. (Nov. 14, 2019, G057161) [nonpub. opn.] (Conteh)). For brevity’s sake, we provide only the facts critical to the particular issues in this appeal. A more complete background can be found in the prior opinions, particularly Lindsey I. Very briefly, Alieu B. M. Conteh formed African Wireless, Inc. (AWI), in 1990 as a Delaware corporation. In 1997, he formed Congolese Wireless Network SPRL (Congolese Wireless) under the laws of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. AWI was principally a holding company for a 60 percent interest in Congolese Wireless. (Lindsey I, supra, 9 Cal.App.5th at p. 1299.) As of 2018, the Wymont entities, which was composed of Wymont Services Ltd., James R. Lindsey (as trustee of the Lindsey Family Trust), William Buck Johns, and…