Monday, October 1, 2007

Resolute Capital Growth Fund

Industry: Financial Services -> Investment Services

Main business locations: Worldwide

Registered Office:
Wattley Building
160 Main Street, PO Box 4443
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Date of incorporation: 2003

Listed on: Irish Stock Exchange
Resolute Capital Growth Fund Limited

Financials:
Minimum subscription: USD 100,000
Net Asset Value: USD 1058.7476 (17/09/2007)

Auditors: Baker Tilly (BVI) Limited

Bankers: Barclays International

About the BVI fund:
Resolute Capital Growth Fund is professional investment fund registered in the British Virgin Islands and licensed with the BVI Financial Services Commission. The founders of the fund have focused on low-volatility, market-neutral and performance-driven trading strategies, offering programs for professional investors and investing primarily in currencies.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Talon Metals Corporation

Industry: Mining

Main business locations: Brazil

Registered Office:
Geneva Place 2nd Floor,
333 Waterfront Drive
Wickham's Cay Road Town,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Renamed on July 5, 2007

Listed on: Toronto Stock Exchange
Ticker: BZM, TLO

Financial highlights: (compare to 2005 financial highlights)
Total Assets: (2006) CAD 19,863,941
Shareholder’s equity: CAD 24,104,131
Net loss: (2006) CAD 1,976,205
(the company currently invests in exploration)


Auditors: Zeifman & Company LLP

Bankers: Cidel Bank & Trust Inc., Bridgetown, Barbados

About the BVI company:

Talon Metals Corp. (formerly Brazmin Corporation) is a mineral exploration company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of high quality base and precious metal projects. Currently the main projects of the company located within the Tapajós Gold District in Brazil are Água Branca Gold Project and São Jorge Project. The company owns approximately 17% of stock of Brazauro Resources Corp., an exploration and development company in Brazil.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited is a BVI fund management company being part of Renaissance Investment Management Group.

Industry: Financial Services

Main markets: Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Registered Address:
Craigmuir Chambers,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Date of incorporation: 2003

About the BVI company:

Renaissance Capital Investment Management, based in the British Virgin Islands, was established as an independent business as part of the Renaissance Capital Group, - an independent group of finance and investment companies specializing in the developing markets. BVI-based Renaissance Capital is working in the spheres of investment banking, asset management, merchant banking and consumer financing.

Renaissance Capital Investment Management Limited is licensed to provide management services under Section 24 (1) of the BVI Mutual Funds Act, 1996 (as amended).

Renaissance Capital has two business lines – asset and fund management and wealth management services to high net worth individuals. Its clients include the largest Russian insurance companies, most of Russian non-state pension funds, and a number of the largest Russian corporations. Renaissance Capital provides strategic and financial advisory services to many Russian and other CIS corporations in all the leading sectors of economy.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Deswell Industries, Inc.

Industry: Manufacturing

Main business locations: Asia

Registered Office:
H.W.R. Services Limited
P. O. Box 71,
Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1987

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: DSWL

Financial highlights:
Total Assets: (2006) USD 130,670,000
Shareholder’s equity: (2006) USD 106,768,000
Net Sales: (2006) USD 115,276,000
Income before taxation: (2006) USD 9,992,000

Auditors: BDO MaCabe Lo Limited

Bank: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

SEC Counsel: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

About the BVI company:

Deswell Industries, Inc. is an independent contract manufacturer of injection-molded plastic parts and components, electronic products, components and subassemblies; supplier of metallic molds for the company's plastics and electronics operations, manufacturer of metal parts for original equipment manufacturers and contract manufacturers.

Deswell has its registered office in BVI, but its executive office is located in Hong Kong. Company conducts all kinds of its manufacturing activities at separate plastics, electronics and metallics operation factories located in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China.

The company sells its products to customers in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan), the United States and Europe (Germany, Italy).

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Orca Exploration Group Inc.

Industry: Mining

Main business locations: East Africa

Registered Office:
PO Box 3152
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: August 31, 2004 (renamed on April 2, 2007)

Listed on: Toronto Stock Exchange
Ticker: ORC.A; ORC.B

Financial highlights: (compare to 2005 financial results)
Total Assets: (2006) USD 43,904,000
Shareholder’s equity: (2006) USD 37,889,000
Total Revenue: (2006) USD 13,828,000
Profit before taxation: (2006) USD 4,261,000

Subsidiaries:
PAE PanAfrican Energy Corporation (company registered in Mauritius)
PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Limited (company registered in Jersey)

Auditors: KPMG

Lawyers: Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

About the BVI company:

Orca Exploration Group Inc. is an international public company registered in the British Virgin Islands, focused on natural gas exploration, production, development and marketing in Tanzania, through the wholly-owned subsidiary PanAfrican Energy Tanzania Limited. Company's head office is located in Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). The Company is also engaged in oil and gas appraisal in Italy.

Orca Exploration Group Inc. was previously operating as EastCoast Energy Corporation, which was originally a subsidiary of PanOcean Energy Corporation. It was distributed to shareholders and separately listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in August 2004. In November 2006, EastCoast shareholders approved company's name change into Orca Exploration Group Inc. Orca started trading on the TSXV on 4 April 2007.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Neuimex Direct Dealing S.A.

Industry: Financial Services -> Forex

Main business locations: Worldwide

Registered Office:
Shirley Trust Company Limited,
P.O. Box 3099,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: November 3, 2004

About the BVI company:

Neuimex Direct Dealing S.A. is an independant Broker for business execution and account holding for Forex and CFD markets based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The software, services, backoffice and trading platform for Neuimex Direct Dealing S.A. are provided by Swiss-based Neuimex.

Neuimex Asset Management AG was founded by experts in online Forex trading, and offers customers global access to online trading on FOREX, CFD and Futures markets. The company is also a member of the Swiss Self Regulation Organisation PolyReg.

Important: While we believe the people behind any BVI company to be honest and ethical, we recommend you do your own due diligence relating to any specific claims or promises made in the online offers. Forex trading has large potential rewards, but also large potential risk. You must be aware of the risks and be willing to accept them.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

ValueAct Capital

Industry: Financial Services -> Investment

Main business locations: USA

Registered Office:
Craigmuir Chambers
PO Box 71,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: 2000

About the BVI company:

ValueAct Capital is registered in the British Virgin Islands and has offices in San Francisco and Boston. ValueAct Capital partners are Jeffrey W. Ubben and G. Mason Morfit.

The company is focused on buying large stakes in undervalued companies and then working with their management to boost sales and revenues. To date, on behalf of institutional and wealthy individual investors, the company manages $1.5 billion.

The largest stakes of ValueAct Capital are in The TriZetto Group and Per-Se Technologies, both connected with health care billing software, and PRA International (drug development).