Quindell - Short Interest Revealed:

Over the past couple of days I've received a lot of emails regarding the uncovering of Roble S.L - who now transpire to actually be a pawn in Tiger Global's box of chess pieces. This post is effectively the culmination of the interesting information in these various emails, which basically require no further input at my end, so I won't be analysing anything. Point number two is the most important one to look at, I hope you enjoy the show!


1. An image showing the proximity of Tiger Global's New York office, to Quindell's New York office:

2. Putting some pieces together:

• Now, Gotham City Research stated in their paper that they went to the QPP new york office, as it's a three minute walk away from Tiger Global's office, suggesting that Gotham City Research potentially are Tiger Global.

• Coatue, who also have a short on Quindell, also see to be Tiger cub members are also just around the corner.

• QPPSAG have discovered Fidelity are linked to a fund called "Gotham", which invested in Quindell and we know they lent the shares in Quindell out (NB: I [The Masked Stock Trader] have no direct proof of this point, so take do your own due diligence, etc).

• The Fidelity Fund called Gotham lent shares to Robel SL based in the Cayman islands and owned by Tiger Global.

• Gotham City research did the damming article and claimed to have walked to QPP offices.

• Coatue are three blocks away from Tiger Global and are also a tiger cub hedge fund.

Pinched from the FT.

Main players:

Fidelity, Tiger Global, Roble, Gotham and Coatue.

Sub-Players:

Tom Winnifrith, Lucien Miers, Dan McCrum (rumour is he was being paid by Ennismore to write a series of negative articles), Paul Scott, Richard Crow (cockney rebel) and an army of internet trolls spamming the public boards with lies.

3. Gotham City Research and Delaware:

The entity was formed on 13/2/2013 (Incorporation Date).
It is registered as an Limited Liability Company LLC entity and not a Corporation. 

Some point to note are:

1. Delaware have no state taxes for LLCs, so many people choose to form new companies in Delaware for this reason, even if the owners are resident in another state.

2. The LLC provides a personal liability shield in the event the entity runs ups debs which it cannot pay. 

3. The LLC has to re-register every year with the state. It has to pay $250 of taxes to do this. They have to pay this on or before June 1st each year. 

4. An LLC is not required to file an Annual Report. 

5. It is possible to purchase online the STATUS of this company for $10, but no other information is available.

6. A corporation would have to submit annual accounts and pay a franchise tax. As Gotham are an LLC they do not have to do this.

7. The Resident Agents Address is the address you sent your LEGAL PAPER work to in the event you want to SUE them. They are the official delivery address for all LEGAL paper work, tax information etc. The Registered Agent will be the person to receive the s**t storm of prosecution paper work that will no doubt be flying across the atlantic in the next month or so. GCR cannot say they have NOT received any paper work as delivery to the Registered Agent is exactly the same as delivering to GCR. It is the responsibility of the registered agent to forward on any paper work.

4. Roble's Cayman Island Registry:

5. Roble and Coaue:

Just reading about Chase Coleman (Mr Roble) on Bloomberg and he is mate with the guy who runs Coatue both trained under the same man no collusion eh? "Coleman’s fund is one of three Tiger cubs that made the top 25 in the Bloomberg Markets ranking. Philippe Laffont’s New York-based Coatue Management LLC ranked No. 10, with a return of 16.9 percent. Laffont, who worked for Robertson at Tiger before starting Coatue in 1999, also invests in technology."