A high-flying partner at EY was fired from his $850K role after he propositioned a female colleague at a Christmas party, and was later accused of assault in a Sydney bar.

Leonard Nicita was terminated from his role as a senior partner in the firm’s Transaction Tax team in November 2023, according to a decision from Justice David Mossop in the ACT Supreme Court last month.

The first incident happened at a 2022 Christmas party which had a “Miami Vice” dress-up theme, and resulted in a female partner making a complaint to management, the decision said.

During the party, as Nicita’s managing partner described it, he “made comments to the complainant to the effect that you thought she was beautiful, you wanted to sleep with her and, when the complainant said she was married, you noted that

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