He was a mentor and long-standing business partner, but for the last three months, exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky battled old friend Roman Abramovich in the largest private court battle in history — and lost.

When British High Court judge Elizabeth Gloster sat down in the commercial court Friday morning she said, almost from the outset, that she was dismissing Berezovsky’s $5.6 billion lawsuit against younger oligarch Abramovich, and his claims of cheating “in their entirety.”

Source: Forbes