Former Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) CEO Frank Del Rio has opened the discovery phase of his lawsuit against the company, serving a set of document demands on the company, three former directors and the compensation consultant that advised on his exit package.

The requests, filed June 12 in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County, follow the complaint Del Rio brought May 5 against NCLH, operating subsidiary NCL (Bahamas) Ltd. and former directors Russell Galbut, Harry Curtis, Mary Landry and Stella David.

Del Rio has alleged the company reneged on an oral promise to extend his post-retirement consulting arrangement by two years and roughly $8 million.

The new filings include first requests for production to the company and to Galbut, Curtis and Landry individually, first sets of interrogatories to Galbut, Landry and David, and a notice of intent to subpoena Korn Ferry as a non-party.

Among the materials sought are all drafts, redlines and internal comments on the TRCA, board decks, agendas, minutes and “unofficial minutes,” and communications with outside counsel O’Melveny & Myers and Holland & Knight. The requests also target communications with proxy advisory firms ISS and Glass Lewis concerning Del Rio’s compensation and consulting role, and documents tied to a claimed February 2026 nonpayment and a March 2, 2026 letter from the company’s attorneys.

The Korn Ferry subpoena commands the firm to produce, for the period January 2023 through March 2025, its analyses of how the structure of Del Rio’s consulting deal, including the length of the consulting term and the level of consultant compensation, could affect anticipated “Say-on-Pay” voting outcomes, the financial and reputational fallout of a failed vote, and the effect on sitting directors’ tenure on the NCLH board.

Several requests also seek communications involving individuals not named as defendants, including Adam Aron, David Abrams and current director Zilla Byng-Thorne.