A prominent Pacific Northwest lobbying and public affairs firm has filed for chapter 11 protection amid a bitter legal dispute between estranged co-owners, the Seattle Times reported. Seattle-based Strategies 360 filed a petition on Monday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington in an effort to stave off what CEO Ron Dotzauer described in court filings as a hostile and humiliating takeover bid by his former business partner, Eric Sorenson. A legal fight between the two men has been brewing for years over Dotzauer’s failure to pay Sorenson $6 million as part of an agreement to buy out his former 49% ownership stake in the firm, court records show.
