Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
Ernesto Bertarelli, the Swiss billionaire who owns the Alinghi team, has given the American BMW-Oracle team an ultimatum — drop your legal challenge and agree to play on our terms, or you won't be allowed to compete in the 2010 America's Cup.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
The next America's Cup is still on hold, but there are stirrings below the surface. While Larry Ellison's 90-foot trimaran continues to train off San Diego and BMW Oracle advances with its appeal in New York, both Ellison and Alinghi's Ernesto Bertarelli are lobbying for their versions of the same thing – a traditional event.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
The ride was sweet, the noise was deafening and the win was smoothly executed. But, most noticeable was the smile on the face of the Swiss double America's Cup winner Ernesto Bertarelli.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/18/2008
As the gap between the two protagonists in the stalled America's Cup - Swiss holder Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi and San Francisco challenger Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle - appeared to be widening to the nearly 10,000 miles which separate them, a new way forward was yesterday being floated by the Americans.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The paralysis which has gripped the America's Cup for over a year seemed to be relaxing over the weekend after a one-to-one summit between the Swiss holder, Ernesto Bertarelli, and the man challenging him in the courts over the structure of the next event, the American Larry Ellison.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Feuding America's Cup billionaires Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli met for about an hour in San Francisco yesterday in an attempt to get sailing's premier event out of legal gridlock and back on the water in its traditional format.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
California dreaming could turn to America's Cup reality this weekend as the warring factions of Swiss holder Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi and would-be challenger BMW Oracle's Larry Ellison meet face to face after circling each other for over 12 months.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Larry Ellison has challenged the holder of the America's Cup, Ernesto Bertarelli, to a one-on-one trimaran race
The Party Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
There are only questions in the wake of Tuesday's ruling from the New York Supreme Court. Cup spat: Oracle CEO Ellison and biotech billionaire Bertarelli 1) Will Ernesto Bertarelli be magaminous in victory? He needs to be. The general public is bored by 12 months and counting of litigation. The informed public realise that it was the Swiss w...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
The future of the America's Cup was thrown back into turmoil yesterday when a panel of five judges split three to two to overturn a previous decision which had granted Larry Ellison's San Francisco-based BMW Oracle the sole right to challenge the Swiss holder Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A commitment to make the America's Cup a challenger-driven event and a tentative opening of the door, if only by an inch or two, to a negotiated settlement of the bitter legal struggle between the American challenger, Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle, and the Swiss defender, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi was made by Russell Coutts, Ellison's skipper and ceo, yesterday.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Friday sees the latest assault on the beleaguered America's Cup holder, Ernesto Bertarelli's Swiss-based Alinghi, threatening a tens of millions of dollars of compensation. But the pharmaceuticals and property billionaire is not worried about what a federal court in New York may say about the claim by Team New Zealand.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Ernesto Bertarelli, the Swiss-Italian biotech billionaire, returned to the front line of business yesterday as his new €1bn ($1.5bn) healthcare fund joined with Merrill lynch to buy Euromedic, the Hungary-based medical diagnostics and dialysis group, for €800m
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Ernesto Bertarelli, the Swiss-Italian biotech billionaire, returned to the front line of business as his new €1bn ($1.5bn) healthcare fund joined with Merrill lynch to buy Euromedic, the Hungary-based medical diagnostics and dialysis group, for €800m
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The next America's Cup was effectively pushed back until May 2009 yesterday when New York Supreme Court Judge Herman Cahn ruled that the Swiss defender, Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi, must meet the challenge from San Francisco-based Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle in 10 months.
