Mike Lynch just won a dramatic 12-year legal battle over his tech company. Weeks later, he and his top lawyer drowned in a superyacht while celebrating.

Charles Morvillo, one of Lynch’s lawyers in the trial — as well as in the preceding decade of legal disputes — praised the jury’s “rejection of the government’s profound overreach in this case.”

“This verdict closes the book on a relentless 13-year effort to pin HP’s well-documented ineptitude on Dr. Lynch,” Morvillo said in a joint statement with his attorney colleague Brian Heberlig. “Thankfully, the truth has finally prevailed.”

In an interview with the Times of London after the trial, Lynch reflected on how, with a great burden lifted at the age of 59, he could remake his life.

He mourned the deaths of his brother and mother, who both passed ahead of the criminal trial. He mused about using his fortune to start a British version of The Innocence Project, which prevents wrongful convictions in the US.

“Now you have a second life,” he told the Times. “The question is, what do you want to do with it?”

But first, a celebration. Lynch, his wife Angela Bacares, one of his two daughters, his attorney Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and several others went on a superyacht, The Bayesian, which was anchored outside Sicily and owned by Bacares.

Chamberlain moved back to the UK. While running near his home, a driver hit him with a car. He died in a hospital on Saturday.

On August 19, a sudden storm struck The Bayesian. The yacht capsized.

Of its 22 passengers, 15, including Bacares, were rescued.

But rescuers have pulled 5 corpses from the wreckage, including those of Morvillo and Lynch. A sixth remains trapped inside the boat. Lynch’s daughter Hannah remains missing.