CROMER FINANCE LTD. v. BERGER

No. 00 CIV. 2284(DLC), 00 CIV. 2498(DLC).

158 F.Supp.2d 347 (2001)

CROMER FINANCE LTD. and Prival N.V., et al., Plaintiff, v. Michael BERGER, Fund Administration Services (Bermuda) Ltd., Ernst & Young International, Ernst & Young Bermuda, Kempe & Whittle Associates Limited, Deloitte & Touche (Bermuda), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Deloitte & Touche L.L.P., Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., Bear Stearns Securities Corp., Financial Asset Management, Inc., and John Does 1-100, Defendants. Argos et al., Plaintiffs, v. Michael Berger, Financial Asset Management, Inc., Fund Administration Services (Bermuda) Ltd., Ernst & Young International, Deloitte Touche, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Deloitte & Touche L.L.P., Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., and Bear Stearns Securities Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven S. Honigman, Richard P. Swanson, Jonathan E. Polonsky, Veronica E. Rendon, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, New York, NY, Jeffrey H. Squire, Richard L. Stone, Mark A. Strauss, Kirby, McInerney & Squire, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs Cromer et al.

Steven E. Greenbaum, Scott M. Berman, Berlack, Israels & Liberman LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs Argos et al.

Michael J. Dell, Timothy J. Helwick, Yehudis Lewis, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY, for defendant Deloitte Touche Bermuda.

Robert E. Juceam, Gregg L. Weiner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY, for defendants Ernst & Young Bermuda, Fund Administration Services (Bermuda) Ltd., and Kempe & Whittle Associates Limited.

Martin I. Kaminsky, Edward T. McDermott, Pollack & Kaminsky, New York, NY, for defendant Financial Asset Management, Inc.

Michael Berger, West Hampton Beach, NY, pro se.


OPINION & ORDER

COTE, District Judge.

Four accounting firms based in Bermuda have moved to dismiss these federal securities actions on the ground of forum non conveniens. The plaintiffs in the Cromer class action and in the Argos joinder action1 were investors in the Manhattan Investment Fund, Ltd. ("Fund"), an off-shore investment fund established under the laws of the British Virgin Islands,...

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