Discovery

Application by Banco Azteca S.A., of Mexico, to take discovery from from X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, Inc.; Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, Inc., and Google LLC for use in legal proceedings in Mexico regarding "a coordinated multi-national financial terrorism campaign effectuated by mostly anonymous posters", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by Deloraze Limited to take discovery from Kotaro Shimogori for use in legal proceedings in England against Pan Digital Network Limited alleging "misappropriated funds" totaling $290,000, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Application by Gregory Gliner, described as "a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and United States, has worked tirelessly for years to become, and earn a reputation as, a successful and ethical businessman and entrepreneur", to take discovery from Dynadot, Inc. "for use in a lawsuit in the United Kingdom against the person(s) who operate the website PoliticalLore.com and anonymously authored and/or caused to be published on PoliticalLore.com an article defaming him", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by FW Deep Value Opportunities Fund I LLC, described as "an investment fund incorporated in Delaware", to take discovery from The Carlyle Group Inc. and Carlyle Investment Management LLC for use in "appraisal proceedings" in Germany regarding "the fair value of Schaltbau Holding AG", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by Bertie Mehigan, described as a citizen of Ireland and a lawyer who is "a founder and partner of Mehigan LLP, a law firm with offices in Singapore and Hong Kong", and Olive Mehigan, his wife, to take discovery from International Business Machines Corporation and Promontory Financial Group, LLC for use in legal proceedings in Ireland "against Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. and senior officers of AIB" alleging "their improper and illegal conduct relating to the Belfry 4 investment fund", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Vinmar Overseas Ltd., a Bahamas company based in Texas, USA, to take discovery from The Clearing House Payments Company LLC for use in legal proceedings in Indonesia "against certain individual shareholders and directors of PT Sumi Asih, Mr. Alexius Darmardi Karjantoputro, Mr. Markus Susanto, and Mr. Muljadi Budiman, as well as its corporate shareholders PT Mulia Darma Sarana and Stargate Trading Limited", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Evgeny Mariashin, a Russian lawyer residing in Cyprus, to take discovery from Google, LLC for use in legal proceedings in England brought by Alexander Gorbachev against Andrey Grigoryevich Guriev, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by SBK ART LLC to take discovery from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP "in connection with a proceeding in Malta and an anticipated action in the Netherlands or some other foreign court", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to take discovery from Yahoo Inc. for use in legal proceedings in Canada in which MSA International Management Limited alleged that "alleging that CIBC both negligently permitted unauthorized fund transfers from an MSA account and that CIBC froze the balance of the account without justification", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by SBK ART LLC to take discovery from Kroll LLC "in connection with a proceeding in Malta and an anticipated action in the Netherlands or some other foreign court", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Patrick Dannacher, described as "a Swiss citizen residing in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates", to take discovery from Cloudflare Inc. for use in legal proceedings in the United Arab Emirates alleging extortion, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Notice of Motion to Compel Production of Documents for use in the defense of a class action complaint in the USA in Vega Capital London Limited, of England, and Adrian Spires, a citizen of the United Kingdom residing in England v. Glencore Ltd., of New York, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Global Fidelity Bank Limited (in Official Liquidation), of the Cayman Islands, to take discovery from Bank of America for use in legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands against Natural Capital Limited, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Qatar National Bank and Qatar Charity, both of Qatar, described as "the victims of a fraudulent scheme, pursuant to which a certain individual (or individuals) took advantage of a grieving family and, we are advised, their counsel at the Perles Firm by providing them with a forged bank record, which falsely linked QNB and QC to an alleged wire transfer that supposedly facilitated the heinous murder by terrorists of an American journalist, Steven Sotloff", to take discovery from Perles Law Firm, P.C. for use in legal proceedings in France, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

SEC's unopposed motion for the issuance of letters rogatory to Fabio Gesufatto, Blu Stella Consulting Group Inc., Ommid Faghani, Kevin Rod, Scott Reeves, Elie Boustani, and Francois Latreille, who were described as citizens of Canada residing in Quebec, Canada, for a complaint alleging securities fraud in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Michael Caridi at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Application by Ativos Especiais II - Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios - NP and Ativos Especiais III - Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios - NP, described as "two investment funds organized under Brazilian law", to take discovery from The Clearing House Payments Company LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC for use in legal proceedings in Brazil "against Silvana Malandrini Mazza", who was described as "a Brazilian businesswoman" who "may be concealing certain funds and assets abroad", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by West African Mineral Trading Ltd., of Nigeria, and Tiberius Group AG, described as "an asset management and non-ferrous metal trading company based in Zug, Switzerland", to take discovery from Citibank N.A., Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, HSBC Bank USA N.A., Bank of New York Mellon, UBS AG, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and Bank of America for use in legal proceedings in Croatia, Nigeria, and United Arab Emirates, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by ACT Maritime LLC and Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB to take discovery from Bank of America, N.A., Bank of New York Mellon, BNP Paribas S.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Citibank, N.A., Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, HSBC Bank (USA) N.A., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Société Générale, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS AG, Wells Fargo Bank N.A., and International Registries Inc., as agent for the Trust Company of the Marshall Islands, for use in legal proceedings in England involving Panormos Crude Carriers Ltd., of the Marshall Islands; London Maritime Holdings Ltd., of the Marshall Islands, and their "ultimate beneficial owner", Athanasios Kairaktidis, "in connection with a fraud believed to have been perpetrated by him which undermines Petitioners’ ability to recover on its first preferred vessel mortgage, underlying loan agreement and corporate guarantee", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by OIH Renewables Sàrl, of Luxembourg, to take discovery from Citibank, N.A., The Bank of New York Mellon, Société Générale, New York Branch; HSBC Bank USA, N.A., BNP Paribas USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas, UBS AG, Bank of America, N.A., Standard Chartered Bank US, Commerzbank AG, New York Branch; Bank of China, New York Branch; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Safra National Bank of New York, Banco do Brasil S.A., and The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. for use in legal proceedings in Brazil "against Marco Aurélio Luz Goncalves" regarding allegations that he "might be concealing his assets by using offshore corporate structures and making fraudulent transfers of his assets to his family members, since he is seemingly able to comply with the alimony costs without showing any real source of funds", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by FourWorld Event Opportunities, L.P., of the Cayman Islands, to take discovery from Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC for use in an "Appraisal Proceeding" in Bermuda "concerning the take-private merger of Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Loudmila Bourlakova, described as "a resident of Monaco who was born in Ukraine", and Veronica Bourlakova, who "lives in the United Kingdom, and was born in Ukraine", described as the widow and daughter, respectively, of Oleg Bourlakov, described as "a Ukrainian, Russian and Canadian national" who "developed and set into motion a plan to hide Bourlakov Family Assets from his wife and adult daughters", to take discovery from The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. for use in legal proceedings in England, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Clara Moussa Boustany to take discovery from "the President and Fellows of Harvard College, a/k/a Harvard Corporation" for use in legal proceedings in Monaco, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Application by SBK ART LLC, "which used to be a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia, and which was acquired by Dubai businessman Saif Alketbi on October 31, 2022", to take discovery from Houlihan Lokey, described as a "Los Angeles-based global investment bank", for use in legal proceedings in Malta alleging that Open Pass Limited, described as a Malta-domiciled company whose "key ultimate owner ... is a Croatian tycoon, Mr. Pavao Vujnovac”, and the management of Fortenova Group, described as "a major food and retail company based in Zagreb, Croatia" that "has annual revenues that exceed 5 billion Euro and employs more than 40,000 people”, engaged in a scheme “to fraudulently remove SBK ART from its rightful ownership in the Fortenova Group", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application by Plantation Bay Holdings Corporation, described as a Philippines company that is the "sole owner" of "the Plantation Bay Resort & Spa, a five-star report in Lapu-Lapu City", to take discovery from Crawford & Company for use in criminal and civil proceedings in the Philippines against "directors and/or officers of Standard Insurance Co., Inc.; directors and/or officers of Crawford & Company Philippines, Inc., including the general counsel of Crawford US; and the directors and/or officers of Philpacific Insurance Brokers & Managers, Inc." alleging fraud regarding insurance coverage for damage caused by "a Category 5 typhoon", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Application by Philippe Martinez, described as "a United States resident and successful film producer", and MSR Media SKN, described as a Saint Kitts and Nevis-domiciled producer of "films and television shows", to take discovery from Bank of America, N.A. for use in "foreign defamation proceedings filed against Applicants in the High Court of Justice in the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis" by Caribbean Galaxy Real Estate Corporation, described as "a Chinese real estate development firm”; Ying Jin, described as a "former Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Galaxy”, and Timothy Harris, described as a "former Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis", regarding "statements about Foreign Plaintiffs’ alleged involvement in a corrupt scheme related to the sale of citizenship by investment units in St. Kitts and Nevis", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Nebahat Evyap İşbilen, described as a citizen of Turkey residing in the United Kingdom who is "a victim of a multinational fraud committed against her by Mr. Selman Turk" involving entities in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, England, and United Arab Emirates in which the amount lost "exceeds £40 million", to take discovery from Citibank N.A. and M&T Bank Corporation for use in legal proceedings in England "against SG Financial Group Limited, Barton Group Holdings Limited, Sentinel Global Asset Management, Inc., Sentinel Global Partners Limited, AET Global DMCC, Forten Holdings Limited, Forten Limited, Heyman AI Limited (in liquidation), and Gary Bernard Lewis", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by C5 Capital Limited, of England, described as "a highly successful specialist venture capital firm that invests in cybersecurity, space, and energy security, and André Pienaar, a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, to take discovery from law firm Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP for use in "anticipated foreign litigation" regarding "a breach of contract and/or defamation case against former C5 Capital employee Daniel Freeman - a U.K. citizen and domiciliary - who misused C5 Capital’s confidential information and made false, disparaging, and defamatory statements about C5 Capital and Mr. Pienaar to Stein Mitchell in breach of his Employment Agreement and Settlement Agreement with C5 Capital", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Application by Delta Electronics Inc. to take discovery from Vicor Corporation for use in "litigation that Delta has brought in the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court in the People’s Republic of China", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by Pinewood Technologies Asia Pacific Limited to take discovery from William Berman, a.k.a. Bill Berman, for use in "a fraud claim that Petitioner intends to file in an ongoing legal proceeding against Pinewood Technologies PLC in the High Court of Justice Business and Property Court of England and Wales, Technology and Construction Court", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Application by Alpine Partners (BVI) L.P., of the British Virgin Islands, to take discovery from Terrie Curran for "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Supreme Court of Bermuda" regarding "the fair value of its shares in Myovant Sciences Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Application by Alpine Partners (BVI) L.P., of the British Virgin Islands, to take discovery from Mark Guinan for use in "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Supreme Court of Bermuda" regarding "the fair value of its shares in Myovant Sciences Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Application by Alpine Partners (BVI) L.P., described as "an investment fund constituted as a limited partnership in the British Virgin Islands", to take discovery from Nancy Valente for use in "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Supreme Court of Bermuda" regarding "the fair value of its shares in Myovant Sciences Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from Saul Sutton for legal proceedings in England regarding "allegations by Applicant that Freddy Salem, Monline UK Limited, Salim Levy, and Ezra Aghai engaged in a wrongful pattern of conduct that includes breaches of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, and fraudulent transfers", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Application by Golden Meditech Holdings Limited, of the Cayman Islands, to take discovery from Citibank, N.A., The Bank of New York Mellon, Société Générale, New York Branch, HSBC Bank USA, N.A., BNP Paribas USA, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas, UBS AG, Bank of America, N.A., Bank of China, New York Branch, Standard Chartered Bank US, Commerzbank AG, New York Branch, and The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. for use in legal proceedings "brought in Hong Kong against eight foreign defendants, namely: (i) Mr. Yuan Ya Fei (also known as Li Zhen Yuan Adams), (ii) Ms. Yang Huai Zhen, (iii) Mr. Xu Ping, (iv) Mr. Chen Xiao Yang, (v) Nanjing Ying Peng Huikang Medical Industry Investment Partnership, (vi) Nanjing Li Xin Trading Industrial Co Ltd, (vii) Blue Ocean Creation Investment Hong Kong Limited, and (viii) Blue Ocean Structure Investment Company Limited", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Eduardo Cohen Watkins to take discovery from Stephen Lamb, described as "a former employee of Lily Safra and ... currently employed by Mrs. Safra's estate", and Ellesse LLC for use in legal proceedings in Switzerland regarding the estate of Lily Safra, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application b y Eduardo Cohen Watkins, described as "the son of Lily Safra and ... a collector and dealer of antiques", to take discovery from Richard Rothberg and Stephen Gardner for use in "two lawsuits pending in Switzerland related to the estate of Lily Safra", described as "a philanthropist and art collector" who died in 2022, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from BS Gestcom Holdings Corp. for use in legal proceedings in England regarding "allegations by Applicant that Freddy Salem, Monline UK Limited, Salim Levy, and Ezra Aghai engaged in a wrongful pattern of conduct that includes breaches of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, and fraudulent transfers", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by Ibiuna Crédito Gestão de Recursos Ltda., Travessia Securitizadora de Créditos Financeiros S.A., and Travessia Securitizadora de Créditos Financeiros XXXII S.A. to take discovery from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Santander Bank, N.A., The Clearing House Payments Company LLC, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for use in "foreign civil and criminal proceedings pending in Brazil concerning the business operations of Starbucks and Subway in that country, held through the SouthRock Group, a group of U.S. and Brazilian companies controlled and owned by Kenneth Steven Pope", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Alpine Partners (BVI) LP, described as an "investment fund" domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, to take discovery from Pfizer Inc. for use in an "appraisal proceeding" in Bermuda "concerning the take-private merger of Myovant Sciences Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from JPMorgan Chase Bank NA for use in legal proceedings in England regarding "allegations by Applicant that Freddy Salem, Monline UK Limited, Salim Levy, and Ezra Aghai engaged in a wrongful pattern of conduct that includes breaches of fiduciary duty, conspiracy, and fraudulent transfers", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by Moussy Salem to take discovery from UBS AG for use in legal proceedings in England in which Salem, "on behalf of Monline International Limited ... asserts claims against one of Monline International’s directors, Freddy Salem, and Monline UK Limited and Monline UK’s sole directors and shareholders, Salim Levy and Ezra Aghai", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Application by financialright claims GmbH, of Germany, to take discovery from Burford German Funding LLC, German Litigation Solutions LLC, and Burford Capital LLC for use in legal proceedings in Germany, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by Murchinson Ltd., described as "an investment manager based in Toronto, Canada", to take discovery from The Donerail Group LP for use in legal proceedings in Israel involving Nano Dimension, Ltd., described as "an Israeli manufacturing company", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Application by Apply Support, S.L., Apply Digital Systems B.V., and Apply Digital Systems Holding B.V., described as "a group of companies that created, developed, and own a no code source platform, which is a unique software that allows users with no programming or coding skills to create applications for mobile devices", to take discovery from Adyen N.V. for use in legal proceedings in Spain regarding "intellectual property, and proprietary business information", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California.

Application by FourWorld Capital Management LLC to take discovery from Kroll LLC, formerly known as Duff & Phelps LLC, and American Appraisal Associates LLC "for use in connection with various proceedings filed in Spain" that "arises out of the administrative decision of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission by which the CNMV authorized Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG to takeover and delist Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, SA", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by Lara Allen, Rosalie Kondrup, Matthew Bryan, Sidney Ruiz, William Todd Browne, and Laura Jenkins to take discovery from Airbus Americas for use in legal proceedings in France "against La Société Airbus", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Application by the Consumers' Association, described as "a registered charity and company with over 60 years of experience championing consumer rights in the United Kingdom", to take discovery from Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., Samsung Electronics America, Inc., and Apple Inc. "for use in a foreign class action litigation pending in the Competition Appeal Tribunal of the United Kingdom, Consumers’ Association v. Qualcomm, Inc.”, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd. to take discovery from Anna Klavins and HS Group (US) LLC for use in an "appraisal proceeding" in the Cayman Islands regarding the "fair value" of shares in New Frontier Health Corporation, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Application by Alpine Partners (BVI) L.P. and FourWorld Event Opportunities L.P. to take discovery from Eric Foss for use in "an appraisal proceeding pending before the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands" regarding "the fair value of the shares of the company Diversey Holdings, Ltd.", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Application by CE Line One Corporation Ltd., formerly known as Five Ocean’s Trading Asia Limited, of Hong Kong, to take discovery from Citigroup Inc. and Jonathan C. Goldstein, P.C. for use in "civil and criminal proceedings to be initiated in England and Wales" against "Jeremy Bennett, a British solicitor; 7 Legal and Finance Limited, a British “national business; and Darren Neil Masters, a financial consultant living in Naples, Florida" regarding an alleged $11.3 million investment fraud, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.