Does anyone know if his invitation has been held over to the following year? Perhaps he has now lost the opportunity completely, which would be a real shame.

<Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It also invests in alternative markets. The firm primarily makes its investments in companies undergoing bankruptcy, reorganization, or corporate restructuring. It operates as a subsidiary of Elliott Management Corporation. Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is based in London, United Kingdom.>

http://investing.businessweek.com/r...

They appear to be the British branch of American hedge fund, Elliott Associates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot...

Exposing serious corruption in Africa (I'm shocked, shocked!) sounds a rather noble thing to do, but others take a dimmer view of such public service:

<In one recent case, for example, a “vulture fund” in effect held Peru to ransom by persuading courts in the US and Europe to prevent it servicing its debts to other creditors. It is not clear whether this technique would survive legal challenge in future cases, but it only goes to highlight a more general problem.

That “vulture fund” which held Peru to ransom, is the same fund that now pursues and holds Argentina to ransom.

Elliott Associates vs. Peru

According to the website of the American Task Force Argentina (ATFA) –which nowadays applauds the pressures on Argentina – one of its members and supporters is Elliot Associates Inc., which indicates that AFTA is not just a lobby and pressure group, more or less questionable, just like any other, but it is the lobby group of a vulture fund.

To say that Elliot Associates Inc. is a vulture fund that blackmails the countries chosen as its preys is not just a mere opinion, but a fact. Argentina has no need to prove it, as the IMF has already said that.>

http://pressenza.com/npermalink/of-...

<The biggest vulture fund is Elliott Associates run by Paul Singer, billionaire donor to President Bush and presidential hopeful Rudi Giuliani.

On one occasion, Elliott spent $12m on "distressed" Peruvian debt in 1996 and four years later forced Peru to pay almost $58m to redeem it. He is reputedly worth £8bn and contributed $300,000 to Bush's election campaign in 2000 (above) and $1.2m in 2004.

He also bought some of Congo's debt for $10m and sued for $127m. The Congolese government was found to be corrupt and under US racketeering law, Singer may be able to claim triple damages, reaping as much as $400m.>

<Charities are calling for Britain's Privy Council to block an American speculator from taking $100m (£62.86m) from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Peter Grossman runs a so-called vulture fund which buys up the debts of poor nations cheaply and then sues for 10 or 100 times what they paid for them.

Such funds were in effect made illegal in the UK last year.

But Mr Grossman exploited a loophole to sue in Jersey, which is currently not covered by the law.>

Not that I'm saying Luke is personally involved in anything unethical/shady, or that he's been shy about letting people know who he works for (maybe he just thinks that it's none of our business).

On average, Greek debt is trading at around 50pc of face value, but markdowns are smaller for short-dated bonds and larger for longer-term debt. If bonds are redeemed at par as part of a second bail-out, vulture funds may as much as double their money, debt traders said.>

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Vu...

I believe Julius Baer was Kasparov's bank of choice.

<Julius Bär Group (or Julius Baer Group, SIX: BAER) is a Swiss banking firm which is the parent company of Bank Julius Bär, a traditional private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland. The firm dates itself back to the year 1890, when an exchange office was founded by Ludwig Hirschhorn und Theodor Grob. Joseph Michael Uhl and Julius Bär joined in 1896, when Theodor Grob left. And it was in 1901, when Julius Bär acquired the bank. The group manages substantial assets for private and institutional clients from all over the world. The firm's services consist mainly of asset management, wealth management and investment consultancy, investment funds for private and institutional investors as well as securities and foreign exchange trading.

[...]

On January 16, 2011, former Julius Baer employee Rudolf Elmer announced that he would be handing over to Wikileaks bank account details of individuals and corporations holding offshore accounts that may indicate massive tax evasion.>

Sounds like quite a trick! How did they do it? <JimBartle>, do you know anything about this?

<After extensive and costly litigation and numerous attempts at reaching a settlement, the court awarded $58 million to Elliott, including past due interest. >

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