Bermuda's International Non-Insurance Businesses, Part 3

Bermuda-based, subsidiaries of which offer workers’ compensation insurance in the US. Changed its name from Compensation Risk Managers. Majestic Insurance also provided workers’ comp coverage to employers in Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey and other states. During 2010 it wrote $69 million direct premiums in California.

Canons Court, 22 Victoria Street, Hamilton HM 12. Marvell.com. The maker of chips for Apple Inc.'s iPod media player. Co-founder and former chief operating officer was Weili Dai, of  Los Altos Hills, California, founded the company in 1995 with husband Sehat Sutardja. Today, Marvell makes processors that run smartphones, has its US operating subsidiary in Santa Clara, California and operations worldwide with approximately 5,000 employees. It has international design centers located in the US, Europe, Israel, Singapore and China.

Derivatives broker. USA head office is the largest brokerage of exchange-traded futures contracts.

American corporation, Virginia-based, with a Bermuda shell company since April 2005. Won a multi-million-dollar US government contract to train police officers in Iraq. Was accused in April 2008 of using its Bermuda shell company to shield itself from US taxes. The Boston Globe reported that the Bermuda office appeared to have no staff, telephone number, or website. Said by it to be one of the offshore entities to avoid US taxes, even as they profit from lucrative federal contracts.

A Hong Kong-based investment holding company that moved its domicile to Bermuda from the Cayman Islands in 2010. Formerly Vertex Group Ltd., operates through three segments: network infrastructure and electrical installation services, digital solution services, and films production and distribution, and artiste management. National Arts Holdings' subsidiaries include Network Engineering Ltd., Vertex Systems Services Ltd., VCTG Technology Ltd., Great Wall Telecommunications Group Ltd., Vertex Media Ltd. and Vertex Digital Media Ltd. The company disposed of 100 percent equity interests in Vertex CDM Ltd. on November 11, 2009. The company had a 2010 market capitalisation of $214.1 million.

UK investment advisor. Peter Dubens, director. It's Oakley Capital Private Equity LP invests in mid-market UK and European businesses. In 2010 it announced the sale of web-hosting business Host Europe Corp. to Montagu Private Equity LLP for £222 million ($344 million). The transaction was conditional on approval from Germany's Federal Cartel Office. Host Europe operates in the UK and Germany.

Since 2008. Somerset Village, Bermuda. Bermuda-based. Has offices in Chicago and San Francisco. Independent fund administrator. Recently acquired the hedge fund administration unit of San Francisco-based Agile Hedge Solutions LLC. With the exception of the CEO, the company’s Bermuda office staff is and has always been all Bermudian, with a Bermudian board of directors.

32 Parliament Street, Hamilton. Phone 295-5600 ext 110. Founded in 2006 as a Bermuda-based investment management boutique. Acquired in May 2011 by Bermuda's Capital G Investments. Earlier, Orion had managed the Capital G Investments’ Global Voyager Short-Term Fixed Income Fund using the SafeHarbor strategy for the previous two-and-a-half years with excellent results over the period. Orion’s executives have worked at Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers, Credit Suisse, Berkshire Hathaway, Merrill Lynch, Fuji International Finance and Mizuho Bank.

The family trust of billionaire and former presidential candidate H Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Systems Corp., who ran for president in 1992 and 1996.  Steven Blasnik, president of Parkcentral Capital Management LP and manager of the Perot family's money since 1992, and others formed Parkcentral Global in 2002 

Founded by and is owned as a joint-venture between NATIXIS Alternative Investment International, and Bermuda-based insurance group White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. In 2009 teamed up with Japanese giant Mitsubishi Corporation to create a new alternative investment fund to focus on insurance-linked securities.

Incorporated in Bermuda October 15, 2009. Owns 100 percent of Premier Aqua (UK) plc. based in the UK, specializing in the development and sale of Atmospheric Water Generators, which extract water from the air.

Formed to acquire and operate high-power geostationary satellites optimized for satellite television in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2008 launched a satellite it hopes will expand its footprint in the Asian telecommunications business. Has subsidiary operations in San Francisco and Singapore.

In early 2011 Kiskadee, a fellow Bermuda Company, sued two officers of ProtoStar Ltd for $18.25 million in compensatory damages, in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Kiskadee's complaint was lodged against California resident Philip Father and Maryland resident Eugene Cacciamani, who served as chairman and chief technology officer, respectively, of ProtoStar. Kiskadee had formed a joint venture with ProtoStar, aiming to utilise one of Bermuda's potentially lucrative satellite location slots, which were granted to Bermuda in 1983 by the United Nations and International Telecommunications Union. The complaint revealed Kiskadee was granted an exclusivity agreement on a satellite slot by the Bermuda Government. But after ProtoStar filed for bankruptcy and its joint venture with Kiskadee failed, Government terminated the exclusivity deal in June 2010. Kiskadee formed a joint venture with ProtoStar in October 2008 to implement Kiskadee's extremely valuable exclusive right to commercialize a satellite orbital location, positioned over the center of North America, that is controlled under international treaty and assignment by the Government of Bermuda. The joint venture entity, also incorporated in Bermuda and known as ProtoStar Kiskadee (Bermuda) Ltd., is 75 percent owned and controlled by ProtoStar. Mid-Ocean News revealed in 2005 that Kiskadee had started talks with Government over the Island's satellite slot in July 2001.

Acquired in 2011 for $89 million by Canadian oil and gas company C&C Energia for the company's Colombian oil and gas properties in the oil-rich Cachicamo block in central Llanos Basin, Colombia.

Since 2000 in Bermuda, with subsidiaries RPost US and RPost UK. Parent company is RPost International. In 2009 upgraded its email encryption service in a bid to address some key issues raised by a poll of companies subject to heightened HIPAA data encryption rules. Launched the Registered Email service in Bermuda in October 2009, which ensures immediate delivery, authenticated receipt, and proof the e-mail was sent, its time and content.

Hedge-fund group founded by Steven A Cohen. Outside clients make up about $6 billion of Stamford, Connecticut-based SAC’s $14+ billion of assets under management.  Mr Cohen, who built what was once one of the world’s biggest and most successful hedge funds, ventured into the reinsurance industry last year when it set up Bermuda-based SAC Re. SAC Capital Advisors manages the firm’s assets, while the underwriting team in Bermuda writes reinsurance business.

Affiliate of a bankrupt Connecticut-based hedge fund, in August 2008 filed for bankruptcy protection. It said in a petition filed in Bridgeport, Connecticut, that it has as many as 49 creditors and assets and debt of $100 million to $500 million. The company is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, which provides shelter from creditors while a company reorganizes.

Bermuda-registered and based. Owned by the wife and/or family of US Republican 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney and family. It funneled money into Bain Capital’s Sankaty family of hedge funds, which invest in bonds and other debt issued by corporations, as well as bank loans. Sankaty maintains no office or staff in Bermuda. Its only presence consists of a nameplate at a lawyer’s office in downtown Hamilton, capital of the British island territory.

Oil driller and well-service provider that acquired Allis-Chalmers Energy in 2010 and planned to purchase several oil-service technology companies by the end of 2010.

Investment bank, focused on equity capital markets, alternative asset class fund management and principal finance, has a secondary listing on the Bermuda Stock Exchange.

Bermuda-domiciled since 2008. World's largest specialty retail jewel stores, expected to record income of between $222.5 million and $232.5 million before tax in 2009/2010. Jewellery giant in UK and USA, was London-based until 2008, operates nearly 2,000 retail stores, Kay Jewelers and Jared, etc in the USA and H. Samuel, Ernest Jones and Leslie Davis in the UK. Also moved its primary listing to the New York Stock Exchange. It relocated to Bermuda to make the stock eligible for inclusion in US domestic stock indexes with a primary stock listing on the New York Stock Exchange the natural next step in its evolution, given most of its shareholders are American. 

In January 2011 it struck a $5 million deal to buy securities from Bionovo Inc, a pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of treatments for women’s health and cancer.

World's largest tanzanite miner. Tanzanite, which is 1,000 times rarer than diamonds, is mined from the world's only known deposit, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak.

Has two other entities in Bermuda, see below. Teekay has a fleet of 173 ships. They carry crude, refined petroleum products, liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas. Teekay operates 137 vessels, 36 of them Aframax. These Aframaxes can move about 600,000 barrels of oil. Suezmaxes can carry about one million barrels. In October 2011 Teekay Corp and the Japanese group Marubeni have bought Danish shipping and oil group AP Moller-Maersk A/S’s liquefied natural gas unit (LNG). The two buyers acquired acquire joint ownership interest in eight LNG carriers in a $1.4 billion deal on a cash and debt-free basis.

Reid Street, Hamilton. Since 2005. Established by Fabian Schonenberg. It administers funds ranging from one that invests in wine, others that invest in catastrophe risk, as well as the more conventional funds of hedge funds. Mr. Schonenberg is a Swiss national, also the Swiss Honorary Consul in Bermuda. Clients are banks and fund managers based in Bermuda and elsewhere. 

Viking Schumann on Germany's River Elbe

Owns  UK Conservative Party donor Lord Ashcroft’s Turks and Caicos bank. 

Announced in October 2011 its intention to re-domicile from Bermuda to Delaware in order to avoid any potentially harmful changes to the tax law and being targeted as a non-US company. The company’s board of directors believes that the move will provide legal, administrative and other similar efficiencies, as well as a basis for further efficiencies in the event that XOMA simplifies its overall corporate structure, in addition to reducing XOMA’s exposure to the potential consequences of certain types of punitive or potentially adverse tax legislation that have been proposed in the past.