Senior former employees of his tech group Autonomy, allies who helped him sell billions of dollars to HP and the lawyers who defended him after that deal fell through were all on hand as the company was caught in a storm in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday morning.

Lynch was declared dead on Thursday after the yacht he was on with 21 other passengers sank off the coast of Sicily.

He was celebrating his recent acquittal of fraud charges related to HP’s $11.7 billion acquisition of Lynch’s technology group Autonomy in 2011.

Lynch was accompanied by his wife, Angela Bacares, who survived the disaster, and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah Lynch, whose body was found Friday morning.

Other passengers were key allies who had supported Lynch during the tech giant’s most turbulent period.

The escape was a symbolic journey on what Lynch had described as the beginning of a “second life.”

The Accidental Car Accident: Steven Chamberlain

Rumours are now circulating of a connection between the boat’s guests and the accidental death of Steven Chamberlain in a collision with a driver in Cambridgeshire, just days before the boat sank.

Chamberlain was a veteran of Autonomy who later became chief operating officer of Darktrace, a company closely tied to Autonomy. He took a “leave of absence” to defend himself during Lynch’s recent trial in the United States.

Former Autonomy NED: Jonathan Bloomer

The bodies of Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife, Judy Bloomer, 71, were found along with Lynch’s on Wednesday.

Autonomy appointed Bloomer as a non-executive director in 2010. He chaired the group’s audit committee during the sale of HP and was a key defence witness for Lynch at his fraud trial in California. At the time of his death, Bloomer was international chairman of Morgan Stanley International.

Bloomer told prosecutors that Lynch was “not particularly interested in the financial side” of Autonomy, preferring to focus on strategy and the company’s products.

Lynch’s lawyers: Chris Morvillo and Ayla Ronald

Chris Morvillo, 59, died aboard the Bayesian hunting with his wife, American jewelry designer Neda Morvillo, 57.

Morvillo, an attorney at the law firm Clifford Chance, represented Lynch in his criminal case in the US

He told the legal podcast For the defense that the case “took up a third of my career” after his first meeting with Lynch in 2012, as unrest at HP grew.

In a rare LinkedIn post following the trial, which would be one of his last, Morvillo thanked his daughters and his late wife Neda.

“I’m so happy to be home,” Morvillo wrote.

“And they lived happily ever after…”

Ayla Ronald, a 36-year-old senior associate at Clifford Chance, was also on board the Bayesian with her partner, Matthew Fletcher. Both survived the sinking.

Ronald’s company profile describes how she also defended Lynch in his fraud case against HP.

Extensive links to Darktrace

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After Lynch sold Autonomy, for a reported £500 million ($656 million), he founded venture capital fund Invoke Capital in 2012, which would see him extend his influence far into the UK tech world in his later years.

Invoke was an early-stage investor in Darktrace, which now costs $5.3 billion from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo. The VC fund also invested in UK AI company Luminance, which closed a $40 million funding round in April.

Lynch and his wife Angela held millions of their fortune through Darktrace in their final years, a source said. Fortune Together they had a 3% stake in the company, which was valued at £4 billion ($5.25 billion) when they died. Fortune exclusively announced that the deal is not expected to close until later in 2024.

Several former high flyers from Lynch’s Autonomy days have jumped into key positions at Darktrace. Poppy Gustafsson, Darktrace’s current CEO, was a corporate controller at Autonomy. In a LinkedIn post commemorating the lives lost, Gustafsson said, “Without Mike, there would be no Darktrace. We owe him so much.”

The connections seem deep; Darktrace’s founder-CEO Nicole Eagan was also chief marketing officer at Autonomy, during the HP acquisition period. Neither Eagan nor Gustafsson were on the boat, and both still hold leadership positions at Darktrace.

Call Capital: Charlotte Golunski

Charlotte Golunski is another person with longstanding business ties to Lynch. She is a partner at Invoke Capital, having joined at its inception in 2012. Invoke Capital shared offices with Darktrace near Trafalgar Square in London for a number of years.

Prior to joining Invoke, Golunski spent a year at Lynch, Autonomy, and HP Autonomy following its acquisition.

Golunski, 35, survived the sinking of the Bayesian alongside her partner, James Emsley, and their 1-year-old daughter. She was sleeping on the deck of the yacht with her baby when the storm hit, and described feeling vibrations in the boat before it sank minutes later.

She told the Italian press agency The Republic how she held her baby above her arms in the water before she was rescued.