Pertemps boss in legal wrangle

Watts involved in call centre dispute

Pertemps chairman Tim Watts (pictured) has become embroiled in a legal battle over a call centre company in which he holds a stake.

Watts has called for an inquiry by the Department of Trade and Industry into the running of the firm, owned by Scotland-based entrepreneur Pearse Flynn.

Flynn acquired the trade, goodwill and assets of one of Watts’ firms, Callpoint Europe, in December 2003 and transferred these assets to a new company, Contact 4 Partnership. Callpoint Europe retained a 15% share in the new firm.

However, after Callpoint Europe claimed Contact 4 Partnership had repeatedly failed to reimburse it for rent under a licence-to-occupy agreement on its Glasgow premises, Flynn publicly accused Watts of sending emails to the media attacking his business practices.

Now Flynn’s company – renamed Callpoint Bath Street in November – has ceased trading and accountancy firm KPMG has been appointed as a provisional liquidator. A legal representative for Pearse Flynn refused to comment.

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