Grant & Eisenhofer

Application by CI Investments Inc., acting in its capacity as manager and trustee for and on behalf of First Asset Morningstar International Value Index ETF, of Canada; Lighthouse Investment Partners LLC, of the USA; The Church of England Pensions Board, as Trustee of The Church Administrators Pension Fund, of England; and Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Media PNO, of the Netherlands, to take discovery from Deutsche Bank AG and Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas "for use in litigation against Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen City Court and the Eastern High Court in Denmark" that are "based on a series of money laundering activities over a nine-year period from 2007 through 2015 by Danske’s Estonian branch", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by QIC Ltd., described as "a governmental entity wholly owned by the Australian State of Queensland", to take discovery from Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas for use in legal proceedings in Denmark "against Danske Bank A/S" by "over 300 claimants" who allegedly suffered investment losses of "around $1 billion" due to "a series of money laundering activities over a nine-year period from 2007 through 2015 by Danske’s Estonian branch, which has been referred to as the largest money laundering scandal in world history", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Stockholder Derivative Complaint in Central Laborers' Pension Fund, Ezra Cattan, Lisa Cattan, Saul Cattan, Sean Endress, Mikhail Kuperman, Hassan Kutom, Kristopher Mares, and Taylor McGraw, derivatively and on behalf of Palantir Technologies Inc. v. Alexander C. Karp, Peter Thiel, Stephen Cohen, Alexander Moore, Alexandra Schiff, Lauren Friedman Stat, Shyam Sankar, David Glazer, and Kevin Kawasaki, as Defendants, and Palantir Technologies Inc., as Nominal Defendant, at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company to take discovery from James Liang for use in legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands regarding the "fair value" of shares in 58.com, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Ex Parte Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company to take discovery from Mercury Capital Advisors LLC, Mercury Capital Advisors Group GP LLC, Mercury Capital Advisors Group LP, Mercury Capital GP LP, Mercury Capital Group LLC, Mercury Capital Holdings LLC, Mercury Capital Hermes Holdings Inc., Mercury Capital LP, Mercury Capital Investment Corp., Mercury Capital Investments LLC, Mercury Capital Advisers Ltd., Mercury Capital Advisors Group GP LLC, Mercury Capital Advisors Group LP, Mercury Capital Advisors Asia LLC, Mercury Capital Manager LP, and IVC Hermes Holdings Inc. for use in legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands to determine "the fair value of the shares of the company 58.com", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Allegheny County Employees' Retirement System v. Palantir Technologies Inc., which "builds and deploys software platforms to assist the U.S. intelligence community in counterterrorism investigations and operations"; Alexander C. Karp, David Glazer, and Shyam Sankar at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Class Action Complaint in The Police & Fire Retirement System City of Detroit v. Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., described as "a Bermuda-based international underwriter of specialty insurance product in the property and casualty market"; Thomas A. Bradley, Scott Kirk, Kevin J. Rehnberg, Mark E. Watson III, and Jay S. Bullock at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging a crypto-based fraud in Matthew Albright v. Terraform Labs Pte Ltd., described as a Singapore-domiciled, South Korea-based digital assets company; Jump Crypto, Jump Trading LLC, of Delaware; Republic Capital, Republic Maximal LLC, Tribe Capital, DeFinance Capital/DeFinance Technologies Oy, of Finland; GSR Markets Limited, of Hong Kong; Three Arrows Capital Pte. Ltd., of Singapore; Pantera Capital, Nicholas Platias, and Do Kwon, described as a resident of Singapore, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company to take discovery from Christopher Hsu for use in "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Stipulation to $300 million Settlement in a dispute involving a Cayman Islands company described as the "Facebook of China" in Heng Ren Silk Road Investments LLC, of Massachusetts; Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, and Jodi Arama, derivatively on behalf of nominal defendant Renren Inc., of the Cayman Islands v. Joseph Chen, David K. Chao, DCM III, L.P., DCM III-A, L.P., DCM Affiliates Fund III, L.P., DCM Investment Management III, LLC, Duff & Phelps, LLC, Oak Pacific Investment, Social Finance, Inc., SoftBank Group Capital Limited, SoftBank Group Corp., SB Pan Pacific Corporation, Renren SF Holdings, Inc., and Renren Lianhe Holdings at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in GIC Private Limited, which is "wholly-owned by the Government of Singapore" v. Celgene Corporation, Scott A. Smith, Terrie Curran, and Philippe Martin at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company to take discovery from Houlihan Lokey Inc. for use in "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California .

Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities LP and Genesis Emerging Markets Investment Company to take discovery from Warburg Pincus Asia LLC "for use in connection with an appraisal proceeding filed in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion to Approve $27.5 Million Class Action Settlement regarding the alleged sale of cryptocurrency tokens that were not registered with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Chase Williams, William Zhang, Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC, and Johnny Hong v. Block.one, of the Cayman Islands; Brendan Blumer, Daniel Larimer, Ian Grigg, and Brock Pierce at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Editor's Note: Research by OffshoreAlert in the Cayman Islands General Registry showed that the directors of Block.one are Andrew Christopher Bliss, Brendan Francis Blumer, and Kokuei Yuan.

Amended Class Action Complaint "on behalf of all investors who purchased securities issued by Block.one called 'EOS Tokens' in or traceable to the initial coin offering" in Chase Williams and William Zhang v. Block.one, of the Cayman Islands; Brendan Blumer, described as a resident of Hong Kong; and Daniel Larimer, described as a resident of Virginia, and Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC, of Illinois, and Johnny Hong v. Block.one, Brendan Blumer, Daniel Larimer, Ian Grigg, described as a resident of Hong Kong, and Brock Pierce, described as a resident of Puerto Rico, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud involving cryptocurrencies in Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC, of Illinois, and Johnny Hong, of Solvang, California v. Block.one, described as a Cayman Islands firm with offices in New York, California, and Hong Kong; Brendan Blumer, Daniel Larimer, Ian Grigg, and Brock Pierce at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Cambria County Employees' Retirement System v. Athene Asset Management LLC and Apollo Global Management LLC, both of Delaware, as defendants, and Athene Holding Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled insurance holding company whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as nominal defendant, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Letter from the Plaintiff notifying a New York court that Bermuda-domiciled insurance holding company Athene Holding Ltd., whose shares are listed on NYSE, "ran to a court in Bermuda" to obtain "what it represents to be an ex parte injunction purporting both to bar Plaintiff from prosecuting the New York Action and to require Plaintiff to take affirmative steps to stay this action" in Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Athene Asset Management LLC and Apollo Global Management LLC, both of Delaware, as Defendants, and Athene Holding Ltd., as Nominal Defendant, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. This document includes a copy of the "interim injunction" entered by Bermuda's Chief Justice, Narinder Hargun, sitting at Bermuda Supreme Court, on July 5th, 2019 following an application on Athene Holding Ltd.'s behalf by Walkers Bermuda law firm.

Derivative Complaint "to recover damages arising from the improper looting of the Company by its controlling shareholder" in Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Athene Asset Management LLC and Apollo Global Management LLC, both of Delaware, as Defendants, and Athene Holding Ltd., a Bermuda-domiciled insurance holding company whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, as Nominal Defendant, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Consolidated Complaint alleging "arising out of a sham spin-off transaction through which Renren was stripped of all value by its controlling stockholders" in Heng Ren Silk Road Investments LLC, of Massachusetts; Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, and Jodi Arama, derivatively on behalf of nominal defendant Renren Inc., of the Cayman Islands v. Joseph Chen, David K. Chao, DCM III, L.P., DCM III-A, L.P., DCM Affiliates Fund III, L.P., DCM Investment Management III, LLC, Duff & Phelps, LLC, Oak Pacific Investment, Social Finance, Inc., SoftBank Group Capital Limited, SoftBank Group Corp., SB Pan Pacific Corporation, Renren SF Holdings, Inc., and Renren Lianhe Holdings at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.