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Onshore-Offshore battle for control of failed hedge fund

December 5, 2005
A Cayman Islands judge has put back a key ruling in a battle for control of an offshore hedge fund that is part of a failed North American group whose losses are estimated at US$179 million.Justice Henderson, sitting at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, must decide whether to grant a petition to liquidate Philadelphia Alternative Asset Fund Limited by five investors who claim to have collectively invested $32 million in the Fund.

Parmalat Capital Finance Ltd.: Section 304 Petition

January 20, 2004
Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in the Cayman Islands by Gordon MacRae and James Cleaver, as the Foreign Representatives of Parmalat Capital Finance Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Parmalat is not a Cayman problem, says local representative

December 31, 2003
Nearly two years after the collapse of Enron, the collapse of the Parmalat food group has once again shed an unwelcome spotlight on the offshore sector of the Cayman Islands. Although it had nowhere near the level of Enron's more than 600 Cayman-registered subsidiaries, Parmalat nonetheless had a handful of subsidiaries or affiliated entities incorporated on the island, including an exempted mutual fund, and media reports have suggested one or more of them may have been used to hide assets for a group whose insolvency may be as much as €10 billion (US$12.6 billion).

First Cayman Bank Ltd. v. Cayman Overseas (Pinnacle) Ltd. et al: Writ of Summons

August 26, 1999
Writ of Summons in First Cayman Bank Ltd. v. Cayman Overseas (Pinnacle) Ltd., Cayman Overseas (Park Place) Ltd., Cayman Overseas (Downtown) Ltd., Cayman Overseas Developments Ltd., Cayman Overseas Holdings Ltd., Cayman Overseas Investments Ltd., Cayman Overseas Purchasing Services Ltd., Cayman Overseas Realtors Ltd., Cayman Overseas Reinsurance Association Ltd., and The Cayman Overseas Group Ltd. at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Decision expected soon in Ann Nealon/Cayman Stock Exchange dispute

June 30, 1999
A decision in the bitter legal dispute between the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange and its former CEO, Ann Nealon, is expected soon after the case was heard over June 28-29 before Chief Justice Anthony Smellie at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. The ruling is being eagerly awaited in both Cayman and overseas, where the decision by the government-funded CSX to bring a civil lawsuit against Nealon has raised many eyebrows.

Insider Talking: November 30, 1997

November 30, 1997
US depositors withdraw $14 million after losing confidence in Cayman Islands, John Jefferson Jr. seeks to sell his shares in Cayman fast-food franchises, mystery surrounds the awarding of a Class 'A' bank license in Cayman to Euro Bank Corp. following a $2 million payment, John Tugwell says he quit as Bank of Bermuda CEO for "personal reasons", Bermuda Gov't Minister Quinton Edness makes difficult-to-believe claim about why Police Commissioner was fired, Bermuda Governor Thorold Masefield takes the public for idiots, did Maples & Calder senior partner Tony Travers really receive $6 million in annual dividends?, profits of First Bermuda Securities revealed, Bermuda lawyer Lynda Milligan-Whyte turns $67,200 into $500,000 at First Bermuda Securities.