Faced with a
storm of criticism from shareholders, the directors of the embattled Axiom
Legal Financing Fund have reluctantly agreed to the appointment of Grant
Thornton as receiver, rather than KPMG which had been the directors’ choice.
In a letter to shareholders on Tuesday, the
directors confirmed that they will support the application to have a receiver
appointed for the fund at a February court hearing.
KPMG had been
appointed in October to conduct an audit of the fund’s assets following fraud allegations
which had been made, principally by OffshoreAlert, and for this reason the
directors thought that they would be best placed to act as receivers. However, it became clear that a significant
majority of investors opposed this view because of concerns over independence
and fee levels, and so the directors have reluctantly bowed to investor
pressure to support the appointment of Grant Thornton instead.
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