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VL Assurance (Bermuda) Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition

April 12, 2021
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Michael Morrison and Mark Allitt, of KPMG Advisory, as the Foreign Representatives of VL Assurance (Bermuda) Ltd., Valor Group Ltd., and Valor Management Ltd., described as Bermuda companies that are part of a group that also includes companies in Barbados, Ireland, Liechtenstein, and the United States and which are "victims of activity perpetrated between 2013 and 2016 by Jason Sugarman - a former director of the VL Bermuda Debtor - and others, including Jason Galanis, that ultimately led to the insolvency of the VL Bermuda Debtors", filed at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Gerova Financial Group Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition

August 24, 2012
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Michael Morrison, Charles Thresh, and John McKenna, as the Foreign Representatives of Gerova Financial Group Ltd. and Gerova Holdings Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Millennium Global Emerging Credit Master Fund Ltd. et al: Chapter 15 Petition

June 30, 2011
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Michael Morrison, Charles Thresh, and Richard Heis, as the Foreign Representatives of Millennium Global Emerging Credit Master Fund Limited and Millennium Global Emerging Credit Fund Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Bermuda regulator seeks to wind-up IPOC group, prompts intelligence firm to seek stay of US lawsuit

February 15, 2007
Bermuda Supreme Court has set a date of April 27th to hear an application by a local regulator to have a provisional liquidator appointed over a mutual fund group that allegedly exists to launder the proceeds of corruption by a Russian government minister. A petition to involuntarily wind-up IPOC Capital Partners Ltd., IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd., Gamma Capital Fund Ltd., Convergence Capital Ltd., Com Tel Eastern Ltd., First National Telecommunication Fund Ltd., Convergence Capital Management Ltd., Augmentation Investments Ltd., and Telco Overseas Ltd. was presented to the court on January 12, 2007 by Bermuda's Registrar of Companies.

Bermuda insurer had sham Cayman assets, claims liquidator

December 7, 2006
A Bermuda-licensed insurer that is insolvent by an estimated $7 million forged a fake accounting document in the name of Deloitte & Touche in the Cayman Islands to try to convince regulators it was solvent, according to its provisional liquidators.The alleged ploy did not work, however, and Hatteras Reinsurance Limited was petitioned into provisional liquidation “in the public interest” by the Bermuda Monetary Authority at Bermuda Supreme Court on June 7, 2006.

KPMG drops bribery lawsuit against US PI firm, but Bermuda Fund files similar complaint

June 28, 2006
A civil lawsuit in the United States that was notable for the unusual level of secrecy afforded to the parties by the judge has been dismissed.Bermuda-based KPMG Financial Advisory Services Limited and its two managing directors, Malcolm Butterfield and Michael Morrison, had been seeking $11 million in compensatory and punitive damages against Diligence LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based private investigative agency/risk management firm whose employees and advisers include former high-ranking officials within the CIA, FBI, US Government, UK Government and UK special forces.

Hatteras Reinsurance Ltd.: Chapter 15 Petition (Bermuda)

June 8, 2006
Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Bermuda by Mike Morrison and Charles Thresh, as Foreign Representatives of Hatteras Reinsurance Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

US court denies motion to dismiss IPOC ‘bribery’ lawsuit

March 6, 2006
A U. S.-based intelligence-gathering firm has failed to have a civil lawsuit dismissed in which it is accused of bribing an employee of KPMG (Bermuda) to disclose information about an investigation into alleged money laundering by a sham mutual fund group known as IPOC. Diligence LLC had asked the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a complaint brought by KPMG Financial Advisory Services Ltd. and its Managing Directors, Malcolm Butterfield, and Michael Morrison, on the grounds that Bermuda was a more convenient forum and that an “indispensable party” is missing from the action, namely the Bermuda Government, which commissioned KPMG FAS to investigate IPOC.

LaSalle Re Holdings Ltd.: Section 304 Petition

April 26, 2005
Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in Bermuda by Mike Morrison and John Waldrop, as the Foreign Representatives of LaSalle Re Holdings Limited, at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Bermuda Gov’t suspected of whitewashing alleged $1 b money laundering scheme

February 4, 2004
A James Bond-like tale involving allegations of corporate espionage, bribery, corruption, and a Bermuda Government whitewash of a suspected $1 billion money laundering scheme is unfolding in a U. S. court. Among the cast of characters are Russia's Telecommunications Minister, Leonid Reiman; a Bermuda-based, so-called mutual fund in which Reiman appears to be the only investor and which he may have used to launder the proceeds of corruption, IPOC International Growth Fund Ltd.; IPOC's banker, fund administrator, custodian, and accountant, Bermuda Commercial Bank; IPOC's Bermuda representative and provider of various services, including directors and officers, Wakefield Quin; the firm appointed by Bermuda's Minister of Finance to investigate IPOC, KPMG Financial Advisory Services Ltd.; and Diligence LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based intelligence-gathering firm that is headed by a former officer of the U.K. Security Service known as MI5 and whose advisors include a former Director of the CIA and the FBI.

Virginia Insurance Commissioner accused of abusing his authority

November 30, 2003
The Virginia Commissioner of Insurance has been accused of wrongfully seizing $57 million that allegedly belongs to insolvent Bermuda based captive First Virginia Reinsurance.Alfred W. Gross, as Deputy Receiver of Reciprocal of America and The Reciprocal Group Inc., allegedly illegally

First Virginia Reinsurance Ltd.: Section 304 Petition

October 28, 2003
Section 304 Petition for Assistance in Insolvency Proceedings in Bermuda by Malcolm Butterfield and Michael Morrison, as the Foreign Representatives of First Virginia Reinsurance Ltd., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Bank syndicate owed $183 million by Trenwick Group

August 31, 2003
A syndicate of banks led by JPMorgan Chase Bank is the biggest creditor of ailing Bermuda-based specialty insurer Trenwick Group Ltd., with an outstanding claim of $183 million at August 20, 2003.The syndicate also includes Wachovia Bank, Credit Lyonnais (New York), Dresdner Bank (New York and Grand Cayman), Fleet National Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland, ING Bank (London), Citibank, The Bank of Nova Scotia, State Street Bank and Trust Company, and Mizuho Corporate Bank.