Letter to investors in Axiom Legal Financing Fund from the Fund's directors regarding the report by KPMG into allegations against the Fund published by OffshoreAlert.
New evidence uncovered by OffshoreAlert indicates that the recently-suspended Axiom Legal Financing Fund is hopelessly insolvent as a result of self-dealing and fraud by insiders. The Cayman Islands-domiciled Fund, which has raised more than £117 million, appears to be a Ponzi scheme.
Letter From Directors of Axiom Legal Financing Fund to Investors, October 15, 2012 regarding red flags raised in investigative articles by OffshoreAlert.
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".
Letter from David McIntosh QC regarding his client Timothy Schools, principal of the Axiom Legal Financing Fund and Tangerine Investment Management, both domiciled in the Cayman Islands.
Questions that OffshoreAlert put to Timothy Schools, head of the Axiom Legal Financing Fund/Tangerine Investment Management group, together with responses that we received on Schools' behalf from his attorney, David McIntosh QC, Consultant to Rodney Warren & Co, Solicitors, on August 10, 2012.