Axiom Legal Financing Fund

Order of Dismissal following settlement in DMS Management (USA) Inc. v. Steven J. Goodman at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Steven Goodman's Pre-Motion Conference for Motion to Dismiss and Motion for Sanctions in DMS Management (USA) Inc. v. Steven J. Goodman at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

British attorney and Singapore resident Steven Goodman has been accused of "actively evading service" of a complaint against him in New York for alleged extortion of the Cayman Islands-based DMS Group regarding the fraudulent Axiom Legal Financing Fund.

Secretive Delaware firm Treadstone Corporate Services LLC and two British nationals - Anthony Smith and Timothy Eddolls - who helped swindle investors in Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund have been accused of 'hampering' the liquidation of three investment firms in England that, like Axiom itself, appear to have been operated fraudulently.

Two more British attorneys - Richard Barnett and Anthony Swift - who participated in the £100 million-plus fraud committed via Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund have been accused of professional misconduct, including misappropriating funds received from Axiom.

Timothy Schools, who masterminded the £100 million-plus, Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund fraud, was struck off as a solicitor in England and Wales on June 27th for professional misconduct.

Judgment by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal striking off Timothy Schools as a solicitor in England and Wales in Solicitors Regulation Authority v. Timothy Paul Schools.

Taylor Moor Limited - Liquidator's Progress Report - Companies House for England and Wales - June 24, 2014

Complaint in DMS Management (USA) Inc. v. Steven J. Goodman at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

British authorities rarely fail to disappoint me by demonstrating how third world their country is whenever I try to obtain information for an investigation into financial wrongdoing. Incompetence, inefficiency, ignorance, unhelpfulness, and painstaking slowness are what I have come to

British attorney Timothy Schools and entities he wholly or partly beneficially owned received £81 million of the £108 million that was swindled from investors in Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund, the Fund's Receivers have claimed in an amended complaint filed at the High Court in London.

Bermuda Commercial Bank and investment advisers are being sued in the United States on behalf of elderly trust fund beneficiaries who claim to have lost nearly $7 million in offshore investments, including Argyle Funds SPC and Axiom Legal Financing Fund, both of the Cayman Islands, and EEA Life Settlements Fund, of Guernsey.

Complaint in LVAR, L.P. v. Bermuda Commercial Bank Limited, BCB Paragon Trust Limited, formerly BCB Trust Company Limited; Neil de ste Croix, Andrew Peat Finanz Consultants GmbH, a.k.a. Andrew Peat Group Holdings; Andrew Peat, Stanley Chesed, and Profco International, a.k.a. Chesed Financial at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Receivers of Axiom Legal Financing Fund are to sue Liechtenstein-licensed insurer Gable Insurance AG and London-based broker Legal Expense Solutions Limited as part of their attempt to recover assets for investors who were swindled out of more than £100 million.

Order Sanctioning Legal Actions In the Matter of Axiom Legal Financing Fund at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Defense of Alan Hutson, Rachel Hutson, Hut Consulting Limited, and First for Law Limited in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Alan Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Hut Consulting Limited, First for Law Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Worldwide Freezing Order against Claire Schools and Solis International Foundation in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, of the Cayman Islands, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Alan Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Hut Consulting Limited, First for Law Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Amended Particulars of Claim in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, of the Cayman Islands, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Alan Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Hut Consulting Limited, First for Law Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Portland Financial Management Group, which helped Tim Schools defraud Axiom Legal Financing Fund and launder the proceeds, has collapsed amid regulatory problems and substantial debts. The group's principals, Anthony Smith, Tim Eddolls and Connie Rodrigues, now operate under new names: Prestige Financial Management, Cavendish Financial Management, Corbus Portfolio Solutions, and Corbus Private Clients.

Dubious British company City Equities Limited, which earlier this year touted itself as the savior of the collapsed Axiom Legal Financing Fund, has itself gone into administration.

As this video shows, British fraudster Timothy Schools liked nothing better than to 'play the big man' with the tens of millions of pounds that he swindled from investors in Axiom Legal Financing Fund from 2009 to 2012.

Defense of David Kennedy in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Defense of David Rae in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, of the Cayman Islands, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

New details have emerged of apparent asset-stripping by an insolvent British law firm - Rohrer & Co Limited - that owes Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund £8.3 million.

The Cayman Islands-domiciled umbrella fund of which the fraudulent Axiom Legal Financing Fund was a sub-fund has been involved in at least two other frauds, OffshoreAlert can reveal. In the latest incident, investors in currency fund Capricorn FXG10 were allegedly swindled out of $26.6 million by British Virgin Islands-domiciled Global Tradewaves Ltd.

Defense of Rachel Hutson in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Statement of Administrator's Proposals for Rohrer & Co., formerly Bracewell Law, at the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.

Defense of Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson,Synergy IOM Limited,Check Mate Audits Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, Loret Investments Limited in JP SPC 4 and JP SPC 1, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, of the Cayman Islands, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

A Cayman Islands judge has authorized the Receivers of Axiom Legal Financing Fund to take legal action in Canada, the Isle of Man, and Switzerland in an attempt to recover assets for investors, including an application to remove Andrew Andronikou as administrator of British law firm Rohrer & Co.

Defense of Synaxus Holdings Limited in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, d.b.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund, v. Timothy Schools, Dale Stephenson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, David Kennedy, Rachel Hutson, Synergy IOM Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Resolver Claims Management Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Noble Finance Limited, Sadira Limited, and Loret Investments Limited at the London High Court.

Order sanctioning actions by the Receivers In the Matter of Axiom Legal Financing Fund at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

A law firm that borrowed at least £8.9 million from Axiom Legal Financing Fund was taken over and closed down today by Britain's Solicitors Regulation Authority, which stated that "there is reason to suspect dishonesty".

The assets of British attorney Timothy Schools and related parties have been frozen in England by the receivers of Cayman-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund, who are also suing them for £110 million, alleging misappropriation of investors' funds.

Taylor Moor Ltd., which received commissions of more than £1.8 million from distributing Axiom Legal Financing Fund before going into liquidation last month, did not ultimately benefit from the Fund and is a "victim", says the firm's Managing Director, Malcolm Dixon. 

First Report to investors from Receivers of Axiom Legal Financing Fund, June 27, 2013.

British fund distributor Taylor Moor Limited, which helped to raise most of the estimated £117 million that was invested in Cayman Islands-based Ponzi scheme Axiom Legal Financing Fund, has gone into liquidation. Cayman Islands law firm Harneys is the biggest trade creditor.

Insolvent Ashton Fox Solicitors owes failed Cayman Islands-domiciled Axiom Legal Financing Fund "approximately £60.8 m" but that is only an estimate "due to the paucity of the Company's accounting records", reported the law firm's joint administrator on May 15.

Re-Amended Claim Form in JP SPC 1 and JP SPC 4, collectively doing business as Axiom Legal Financing Fund v. Timothy Schools, Rachel Hutson, David Rae, Alec Linsley, Dale Stephenson, Synergy IOM Limited, Check Mate Audits Limited, Synaxus Holdings Limited, Noble Finance Ltd., Sadira Limited, Loret Investments Limited, David Kennedy, Alan Hutson, Hut Consulting Limited, and First For Law Limited at the High Court in London.

First Report of Receivers regarding Axiom Legal Financing Feeder Fund.

First Report of Receivers Grant Thornton regarding Axiom Legal Financing Master Fund.

Ashton Fox Solicitors Limited - Statement of Administrator's Proposals - Filed with Companies House - May 15, 2013

Update by Grant Thornton on the Receivership of Axiom Legal Financing Fund.

Ruling in Novus International Investments Limited v. Tangerine Investment Management Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Rehab4Life Limited - Report of Meeting of Creditors - Companies House - April 24, 2013

Order in Novus International Investments Limited v. Tangerine Investment Management Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Ruling on the status, duties and powers of the Receivers In the Matter of Axiom Legal Financing Fund at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

British attorney Steven Goodman, who is associated with insiders of the fraudulently-operated Axiom Legal Financing Fund, claims to be owed £25.7 million by the insolvent Fund's former investment manager.

Winding-Up Order in Novus International Investments Limited v. Tangerine Investment Management Limited at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has granted the Receivers of Axiom Legal Financing Fund the same powers as liquidators and, separately, asked the High Court of Justice in England and Wales - where much of the Fund's activity occurred - to recognize the receivership.

Letter of Request In the Matter of JP SPC 4, a.k.a. Axiom Legal Financing Fund Master SP, at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.