Don O’Sullivan, the former chief executive officer of Battersea Power Station Development Company (BPSDC), has filed an unfair dismissal and whistleblowing claim against the London-based real estate firm and four of its senior Malaysian executives.
O’Sullivan, who is being represented by John Hayes of Constantine Law and Stefan Brochwicz-Lewinski of Nine Chambers, is addressing whistleblowing concerns in regards to allegations of financial misreporting raised in November 2024 with the Employment Tribunal.
The issues were allegedly discussed during a board meeting between BPSDC and its parent company BPS Holding on December 16, 2024, and were said to have been acknowledged by the holding company. O’Sullivan then claims that he was excluded from the business the next day by two of the executives who were at the centre of his disclosures. He was suspended on December 24, and later dismissed in May 2025.
In his claim, O’Sullivan has said he “was dismissed on trumped-up charges of gross misconduct after raising concerns of serious financial misreporting”, which he alleged was made to “flatter the balance sheet of BPS Holdings”. An external forensic accounting report by Moore Kingston Smith has verified these claims, lawyers said.
Since his suspension, it has been suggested that a number of employees associated with O’Sullivan’s tenure have also lost their jobs or been suspended. O’Sullivan had initially taken up the helm of the company in June 2024.
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