The commercial division of the High Court has passed judgment on some of the matters raised at a hearing in December in the corporate espionage case involving two multi-billion-dollar US HR companies and an Irish payroll manager from Balrothy, north Dublin. The proceedings were launched over a year ago, on March 12, 2025, when Rippling suspected its Dublin-based employee, Keith O’Brien, of spying for the company’s rival, Deel Inc, after it had set a “honey pot trap” for him. In a judgment issued this Friday, Mr Justice Mark Sanfey ruled that senior employees of Deel, including its co-founder and CEO…

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