The two companies had signed a partnership in October 2001 with a view to exploring a potential bid for a Macau concession, however, LVS ultimately partnered with Galaxy Entertainment, with whom it won a licence. LVS's lawyer claimed that AAEC was the first to break up the partnership and trade with rivals including Hong Kong entrepreneur Lui Che Woo. After several twists and turns, the court ruled in favour of LVS, considering that AAEC had acted in "bad faith" in its legal action for compensation against Las Vegas Sands, by "'intentionally distorting the facts and seriously overestimated the amount of compensation". However, according to Macau Business, AAEC lawyers stated: "The court is versed in the two languages, Portuguese and Chinese […] It did however only issue the ruling in Chinese, a 99-page document. The plaintiff's legal counsel has no way to read the full version of the sentence for obvious reason."