The more I think about this, the funnier it is to me.
I deal with shit like this a lot in my business life at this point so I can almost imagine it. They, apparently, tried to do what I said they'd do and lean on him to take less (thus the ~800K legal bills) and it failed so spectacularly he got every bit of his full benefits (down to golf privileges) and an extra million.
When your power move is so thoroughly trashed that you end up paying the other sides legal AND they put a penalty fee on you....man oh man. Tsun either hired Mother Fucker Jones to negotiate for them or Warde went full Terminator.
TSUN: "Take $3MM and we won't fire you for cause"
WM: "
"
TSUN:
"Ok $7MM, full benefits and we'll pay legal fees but that's our final offer"