Woodbrook Group Holdings Inc (WDBG)

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Ziad Abdelnour,fined $25,000 by the SEC in May 2013 and banned for 5 years from the securities industry. Matt Levine writing in Dealbreaker magazine remarked that "a $25,000 fine is I guess a little harsh for a scam that didn’t actually hurt anyone, but at the same time it’s a little mild for an intentionally scammy effort to steal millions of dollars, failed or not."

Reporting on this settlement, Dealbreaker magazine remarked that Abdelnour used to be a prominent "junk bond salesman during Michael Milken’s glory days... so he’s not bad all the time, whatever he’s up to these days." In 2016, Richtopia ranked him as one of "The 500 Most Influential CEOs".

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Ziad_Abdelnour

It appears that ZA nowadays is something of a mover and shaker - he's President and CEO of Blackhawk Partners:

https://www.blackhawkpartners.com/

Blackhawk Partners, Inc., Investment Arm is a family office. It is a private equity firm specializing in medium sized management-led buyouts, early venture, emerging growth, mid venture, late venture, middle market, later stage, mature, buyout, strategic equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations and buildups, mezzanine and growth capital financings. It also provides advisory and trading services. The firm does not invest in ideas, startups, pre-revenue companies, private equity funds, non-profit organizations, public companies, films and motion pictures and Greenfield opportunities. It does not support diversification and bailouts. The firm primarily invests in energy, industrial, technology and security sectors. For its corporate investments, it invests in mid-size companies. The firm invests across the globe. It invests between $10 million to $100 million in companies having revenue between $10 million and $250 million and minimum EBITDA of $5 million. The firm seeks to make private or public equity investments in growth companies already cash flowing at least $2 million upon funding. It seeks to co-invest with other investors and take a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its investments after three to five years. Blackhawk Partners, Inc., Investment Arm was founded in 2008 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Newport Beach, California and Arlington, Virginia.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=39594896



Mr. Wayne has compiled some great DD here - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145180156 - part of which I have copied below but all of which should be reviewed:


Updated DD 3.0 : Woodbrook Group


Adding to Q's DD 2.0 post that's stickied: Quick summary of what we know already plus more supplemental information


Quick Recap:

Micheal Doherty (CEO - Woodbrook Group) and Ziad K. Abdelnour (President - Blackhawk Parnters) are both Partners at Inter-M Traders. Inter-M Traders shares the same address as Blackhawk and Woodbrook Group as well. Well also know that Felicitas Management Holdings Limited / Mutual Trust Limited / Robusto Asset Management / Hygieia Limited / CBS Global are all apart of Woodbrook Group.

See the sticky material at top from Q7 and Sibware for more on Inter-M and Doherty.

Lets dig into Abdelnour - This guy is no joke:

He's Founder and Chairman of Financial Policy Council - New York based Think Tank designed to formulate and promote sound & smart policies based on the principles of free enterprise and wealth creation.

http://www.financialpolicycouncil.org/


I also recently found out that he was a former President at Arab Bankers Association of North America: more on this later below

Quote:As Founder and Chairman of the Financial Policy Council, Ziad K. Abdelnour is also a Wall Street Financier, Author, Philanthropist, Activist, Lobbyist, Oil & Gas Trader & President & CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a New York based private equity “family office” that focuses on originating, structuring, advising and acting as equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financing in companies and projects based both in the US and emerging markets and the trading of key physical commodities.

Since 1985, Mr. Abdelnour has been involved in over 125 transactions worth in aggregate over $10 billion in the investment banking, high yield bond and distressed debt markets and has been widely recognized for playing an integral role in those three key market sectors.

Mr. Abdelnour serves on the board of Elate Partners, a Chinese investment group backed by large institutional, strategic and wealthy individual investors from China.

Mr. Abdelnour also serves on the Advisory board of DPG Investments, a recognized premier multi strategy global merchant banking, alternative investment, management and advisory firm.

On a more personal level, Mr. Abdelnour, former President of the Arab Bankers Association of North America.

Mr. Abdelnour is also a regular speaker on Private Equity, Physical Commodities trading and Middle East geo-political analysis at industry conferences & TV outlets nationwide including but not limited to Fox News, Newsmax, etc… and a key “influencer” in his own right having a hard core constituency of over 2 million viewers having read his blog postings and analyses since January 2014.

Mr. Abdelnour holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the American University of Beirut.

He was recently listed as one of the 500 Most Influential CEOs in the World.


Three things stand out here: Elate Partners / DPG Investments / Arab Bankers Association of North America

Look at the bold portion in that quote:

Elate Partners, a Chinese investment group backed by large institutional, strategic and wealthy individual investors from China.


Do you want to know who else is apart of Elate Partners? Andrew Eros - He's the CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst at Elate.

He's ALSO the Associate Real Estate Partner at guess where? Blackhawk Partners.

Then there's a company called DPG Investments: A large private investment firm led by Chairmen and CEO Daniel P. Galvanoni - WHO IS ALSO a Partner at BLACKHAWK.

To add more to this: Ziad K. Abdelnour is a Partner and INTERNATIONAL Advisor at DPG Investments.

Images below will help to tie this all together:

(.... Refer to original post by Mr. Wayne - it's well worth it I think.)

https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145180156