An obscure Bermuda-domiciled private equity fund - ADG Absolute Diversified Growth Fund - has applied to liquidate an even more obscure and long ago defunct BVI shell company - Lasdun Ventures - for alleged failure to repay a $52 m loan, a transaction whose substance is open to question.
Claim Form in Wolverine Flagship Fund Trading Limited, Whitebox Concentrated Convertible Arbitrage Partners, L.P., Whitebox Multi-Strategy Partners, L.P., and Pandora Select Partners, L.P. v. American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. at the British Virgin Islands High Court.
Appleby Services (Bermuda) Ltd. v. Stavanger Limited in re. Edward Karl Furtak and Harrington Trust Limited and known as The Bermuda Longtail Trust at Bermuda Supreme Court.
Amended Trustee's Report and Disclosure Statement In the Matter of Fletcher International, Ltd. at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Filings at Bermuda Supreme Court on Tuesday suggest that U.S.-based computer giant Microsoft Corporation is being investigated for suspected tax offenses involving three offshore subsidiaries, Flat Island Company, Round Island One, and RI Holdings.
Bermuda's Minister of Finance has made six applications to Bermuda Supreme Court already this year for orders requiring local companies to produce records for foreign tax investigations. The respondents are Appleby (Bermuda) Ltd., ADG Absolute Diversified Growth Fund Ltd., Firstmark Ltd., The Boston Trust Company Ltd., c/o Codan Trust Company Limited; RUBiS Energy Bermuda Ltd. and RUBiS Bermuda Ltd.
Notice of Removal, including copy of complaint, in Firefighters' Retirement System, Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, and New Orleans Firefighters' Pension & Relief Fund v. Citco Group Limited, Citco Fund Services (Cayman Islands) Limited, Citco Fund Services (Bermuda) Limited, Citco Fund Services (Suisse) S.A., Citco Fund Services (Europe) B.V., Citco Global Custody N.V., Citco (Canada) Inc., Citco Bank Nederland N.V. Dublin Branch, Citco Banking Corporation N.V., Citco Curacao N.V., Citco (USA) Holdings Inc., Citco Fund Services (SA) Inc., Citco Technology Management, Inc., Fletcher Asset Management, Inc., Alphonse 'Buddy' Fletcher, Jr., Denis Kiely, Duhallow Financial Services, LLC, Lisa Alexander, Peter M. Zayfert, Consulting Group Services, LLC, Joe Meals, Grant Thornton International Ltd., and Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom, LLP at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.
Writ of Summons in Swiss-Asia Genghis Hedge Fund, as Assignee of Somers Nominees (Far East) Limited v. Maoming Fund at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Judgment in petition by Santiago Pipelines Company and New Santiago Pipelines Company regarding share capital reductions at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
The head of a Cayman Islands fund group that claims to manage $160 million, promotes its investments as "low risk" and boasts of "consistent" 12% net annual returns for investors is being prosecuted for alleged professional misconduct in the United Kingdom. British attorney Tim Schools faces 11 allegations, including that he "failed to act with integrity" and "failed to act in the best interests of his clients".
Pre-Hearing Opposition to Plaintiff's Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Fletcher International, Ltd. v. Fletcher Income Arbitrage Fund, FIA Leveraged Fund, and Fletcher Fixed Income Alpha Fund, Ltd. at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Declaration of Donald MacKenzie in support of Fletcher International, Ltd.'s motion for TRO and other relief in Fletcher International, Ltd. v. Fletcher Income Arbitrage Fund, Ltd., FIA Leveraged Fund, and Fletcher Fixed Income Alpha Fund, Ltd. at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Bermuda-domiciled hedge fund Fletcher International, Ltd. is so dysfunctional that, in just 17 days, its own president and director - Floyd Saunders - gave a court in the United States two different versions of who owns it.
Supplemental declaration of Floyd Saunders regarding ownership structure of Bermuda-domiciled Fletcher International, Ltd., filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Application by Fletcher International, Ltd. to employ Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP as bankruptcy counsel, filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Bermuda hedge fund Fletcher International, Ltd. today obtained an order in New York that temporarily prevents it from being wound-up in its home jurisdiction - a ruling that will likely lead to a jurisdictional battle between investors and management in courts in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and the USA as they battle for control of a group that claims to manage $550 m.
Declaration of Floyd Saunders in support of a Chapter 11 Voluntary Petition filed by Bermuda-domiciled Fletcher International, Ltd. at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
Complaint in Fletcher International, Ltd., domiciled in Bermuda, v. Robin Lee McMahon and Roy Bailey, as Joint Official Liquidators of FIA Leveraged Fund, domiciled in the Cayman Islands, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Appleby Services (Bermuda) Ltd. (as executor and trustees of the Estate of Joseph George Simons) v. Veronica Ruth Redman et al. - Bermuda Supreme Court
Writ of Summons in Cesar Hotelco (Cayman) Ltd., Cesar Properties Ltd., Condoco Grand Cayman Resort Ltd., Condoco Properties Ltd., and Endless Service Ltd. v. Michael Ryan, Orion Developers Ltd., DeckHouses Construction Company Ltd., I.R.R. Ltd., Endless Service Management Ltd., and BlueTip Watersports Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.
Claim Form in Appleby Corporate Services (BVI) Limited, as Trustee of the Clef Trust, v. Citco Trustees (BVI) Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.