Daryl Corridor and John Oates have come to a decision over their long-standing authorized dispute.
Daryl Corridor and John Oates have privately resolved their bitter lawsuit out of courtroom
The 78-year-old singer sued his former Corridor + Oates musical associate in 2023 to cease him from promoting his stake of their publishing firm, Complete Oats Enterprises – a transfer he branded “the last word partnership betrayal”.
And, in a standing report filed Monday (12.08.25) in Nashville courtroom, it was confirmed that the pair have resolved their points privately.
Corridor’s legal professionals mentioned within the doc obtained by Rolling Stone: “The claims have been adjudicated in arbitration. Given the entry of ultimate judgment in arbitration, plaintiffs might be contemporaneously submitting a discover of voluntary dismissal with the courtroom.”
Oates, 77, was left “deeply harm” by Corridor’s “salacious statements” and was adamant he was simply making an attempt to do what it greatest for himself and his household.
In a first-person declaration to the courtroom in 2023, Oates wrote: “Removed from turning into ‘adversarial and aggressive as a substitute {of professional} and courteous,’ as Daryl has claimed, during the last 50 years I’ve all the time devoted my power to making sure that each the general public and the music business understand the Corridor Oates music and model in essentially the most optimistic mild.”
Though he and Corridor have “not seen eye to eye”, he insisted he tried “to current alternatives to enhance and defend the enterprise and inventive integrity of the partnership.”
He added: “The truth is, Daryl has grow to be unwilling to work with me to attempt to defend the marks and different mental property that we spent many years constructing.
“[Just as Daryl has] constantly and publicly been adamant about being perceived as a person slightly than as a part of a duo or group, I now should act with truthfulness and make selections which are proper for myself, my household, and my inventive future.”
Oates maintained he hadn’t breached any settlement, acted in unhealthy religion or gone behind his bandmate’s again.
In his personal declaration, Corridor claimed he had been “ambushed” by Oates and his plans for the sale.
He mentioned: “This latest unhealthy religion conduct by John Oates and the Oates Belief has created great upheaval, hurt, and issue in my life, to not point out pointless expense and burden, throughout a time when I’m in the course of a tour all through the U.S. West Coast, Japan, and Manilla and must focus and carry out at high stage.
“I imagine that John Oates timed the Unauthorized Transaction to create essentially the most hurt to me. Respectfully, he have to be stopped from this newest wrongdoing and his malicious conduct reined in as soon as and for all.”
In earlier paperwork, Corridor argued Oates promoting his share of the enterprise could be a violation of an settlement they made in October 2021 over WOE.
He subsequently initiated an arbitration course of to forestall his bandmate from transferring all of his proper, title and curiosity within the firm to Main Wave Music – who’ve owned a big curiosity within the duo’s tune catalogue for over 15 years – with out his consent.
Corridor sought a restraining order towards Oates in an effort to shut the Main Wave transaction and “keep the established order of WOE earlier than there’s a change in command of the partnership in violation of the phrases of the Settlement.”
