Clifford Chance

Press Release by the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority announcing it has "commenced criminal proceedings" against brothers Mohammed Zina, who was employed as an analyst with Goldman Sachs International, and Suhail Zina, who was a lawyer with Clifford Chance, for suspected insider dealing involving ARM Holdings Plc, Alternative Networks Plc, Punch Taverns Plc, Shawbrook Plc, HSN Inc., and Snyder's Lance Inc.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Rachelle Frisby and John Johnston, of Deloitte Ltd., in Bermuda, as the Foreign representatives of Capital Management of Bermuda Ltd., an insurer that was petitioned into provisional liquidation at Bermuda Supreme Court by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida. Editor's Note: Research by OffshoreAlert in the Directors Register on the Government of Bermuda's website identified the directors of Capital Management of Bermuda Ltd. as Thomas Sash, c/o Windsor-Thomas Group Inc., of Plant City, Florida; Thomas Williams, of Palm Harbour, Florida, and Nicholas Williams, c/o Clifford Chance LLP, of New York, NY.

Notice by the Bermuda Monetary Authority that it has "successfully petitioned the Supreme Court of Bermuda to wind up Capital Management of Bermuda, Ltd." for regulatory breaches. Editor's Note: Research by OffshoreAlert showed that the Directors Register on the Government of Bermuda's website identified the directors of Capital Management of Bermuda Ltd. as Thomas Sash, c/o Windsor-Thomas Group Inc., of Plant City, Florida; Thomas Williams, of Palm Harbour, Florida, and Nicholas Williams, c/o Clifford Chance LLP, of New York, NY.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Guernsey by William Callewaert and Malcolm Cohen, as the Foreign Representatives of BSG Resources Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in England and Wales by Scott Egan, as the Foreign Representative of Towergate Finance Plc, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Stop Notice by DVB Bank SE regarding one share in MSN 35612 Leasing Limited owned by DAE Capital Finance 6 Limited, filed at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

A Hong Kong judge has hit out at the provisional liquidators of the Bermuda-registered Peregrine Group after they and their legal advisers charged fees of $76 million for just 63 days of work. Doreen Le Pichon, Judge of the Court of First Instance High Court, said she was "greatly troubled by the amount involved" and refused to accept the charges of accounting firm Price Waterhouse and its legal advisers unless they could prove the work was reasonable and necessary.

Law firm Mello Hollis Jones & Martin resigned from the investigation into Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance because of "professional disagreements" with a British law firm also involved in the case, we have been told.Its decision to resign - only a few weeks after MHJ&M partner Saul Froomkin had interviewed Bermuda's Fire's top directors - had nothing to do with concerns about the high profile nature of a case that affects some of the most powerful members of the community, according to sources.