One World Challenge says it has not gained any yachting secrets from the Team New Zealand crew it picked up after last year's America's Cup regatta.
Spokesman Bob Ratliffe said the Seattle-based challenge had been careful to preserve the integrity of the regatta.
One World Challenge is suing a former employee, alleging that he tried to sell its design and crew secrets worth $US2.5 million ($6 million) to a rival United States syndicate this year.
One World has not identified the individual, even though he has now been named in court papers filed in Seattle.
He is expected to contest One World's statement of facts.
The court has yet to process all the legal documents, so his name is not publicly available, and Ratliffe refuses to identify him.
One World was alerted to the former employee's actions by San Francisco syndicate Oracle Racing, which said it had been offered information "improperly" obtained.
One World was set up by technology billionaire Craig McCaw after Team New Zealand defended the America's Cup early last year.
Several sailors, design staff and shore crew from Team New Zealand now work for One World, but all are understood to have signed standard confidentiality deals with their former employer.
Ratliffe said he was confident that One World had not benefited from any information about Team New Zealand which its former sailors and crew held.
"I can only speak for the integrity of the men we have on our team," Ratliffe said.
"We believe it to be of the highest level and from the outset of our programme, we have done everything we can to ensure nothing would be done to violate any protocols."
Court documents say the man tried to sell Oracle Racing data on hull design, construction, crew training and crew eligibility.
- NZPA
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