Turning up the White heat

To museum director Trevor White and his food author wife Susan Jane, the elegant redbrick on Mount Pleasant Square in Ranelagh is a much-loved family home. To US private equity giant CarVal, it’s an investment asset from the boom years

Trevor White and Susan Jane White whose home at 27 Mount Pleasant Square in Ranelagh, is at the centre of a dispute with investment fund CarVal Pic: Fergal Phillips

Last week, the well-known Dublin businessman Peter White faced off against US private equity giant CarVal in the first round of what is promising to be an acrimonious legal showdown.

The restaurateur and property developer is being sued, along with his wife Alicia and their son Trevor, the well-known museum director and former publisher, for alleged non-payment of debts of €5.6 million. The proceedings were admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court list amid ...