Sentences with phrase «of a sham transaction»

Yes, but there are arm's length issues since he already bought it, now doing something may take off into the land of sham transactions.

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Number two is the hidden bidding up of the shares through sham transactions where related parties buy & sell at progressively higher prices (netting to no loss, aside from commissions) until some speculators see the microcap stock and start driving it higher, possibly supported by promotional paid research.

As explained between 1993 and 2005 in the pages of Schiff's Insurance Observer (http://www.insuranceobserver.com/topics/theaigchronicles.php), AIG entered into transactions with nebulous offshore reinsurers, «smoothed» earnings through a variety of tricks, issued deceptive earnings releases, entered into sham reinsurance transactions, engaged in transactions with affiliates that appeared to transfer risk but really didn't, employed financial prestidigitation to turn underwriting losses into capital losses and capital gains into investment income.

Recent cases include: Axiom Litigation Financing Fund (acting for the «receiver / liquidator» of a Caymans Islands fund: # 110m dispute); Frauntled Management Limited v Featherwood ($ 13m investment dispute before the BVI Court of Appeal); BBX Capital Asset Management v Royal Bank of Canada & Ors ($ 30m Cayman dispute relating to transaction to defraud creditors / sham trusts); Trinity Management Group Ltd v Burke Consolidated Ltd (s. 184I / s.175 BVI dispute); Maruti Holdings PTE Limited v Sinclair Strategies Limited (BVI jurisdictional challenge); QVT Fund & Ors v China Zenix Auto International Limited (s. 184I and s184C BVI dispute: interim injunction) In addition, the international nature of commercial fraud often results in Paul advising in relation to proceedings before off - shore courts such as in VTB v Nutritek (advised on interim relief in Cayman Islands and maintenance of BVI injunction in light of UK Supreme Court decisions) and in other off - shore jurisdictions such as Jersey, Guernsey and Nevis.

The types of sham matters targeting lawyers range from collections and commercial loans to real estate and mortgage transactions.

Twelve years later, the firm stands on the brink of collapse after Dreier, the sole equity partner, was arrested for the most desperate (and perverse) kind of innovation: impersonating a lawyer in an attempt to secure tens of millions of dollars in a sham business transaction.

The team has recent successful experience in acting for a client faced with a freezing injunction application in support of an office - holder's claim to set aside an allegedly sham transaction and in acting for clients facing similar actions.

One particularly fertile area for fraud is in the realm of real estate law, where in the past fraudsters have tried to bilk mortgagees and banks (and — by extension — their lawyers) out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through sham real estate transactions and mortgages registered against homes with falsely - inflated prices.

I'm aware of notes / mortgages owed by immediate family members to other members going both ways, either sham transactions or as valid transactions.

360 DOS 09 Matter of Depass — associate broker; failure of proof of charge of failure to disclose prior business association and failure to cooperate; conduct as attorney is relevant to determining trustworthiness and competitiveness; amend pleading to conform to proof; failure by account; fraudulent mortgage transactions; sham to refinance; revocation