They've called several times over the last week but never leave a message.

There is guy name Nicholas called me several times, He said he is MD of Laidlaw. I received several calls from him and his colleague/secretary. They pursued me to invest through them. They barely sent emails. However I got few emails from them. I tried to track IP address of these emails and was surprise to see that they have tried to hide their IP location. Please watch this documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HbvY1ZDhwg  . for eye opening to avoid such people.

this is a spam call and I am listed on the federal do not call list

they knew what stock i had purchased. is that legal?

Investment banking wanting you to invest shares

This person has been calling my boss' line for weeks now from this number. Every time I answer I am always pleasant, but the gentlemam on the other end is very short, rude and to the point-which perturbed me. I ask what is the call in regards to and if there is any way that I can help them, but they hang up. Today I get another call and he actually tells me who he is with which is Laidlaw and his name-Andrew Mack. I decided to google the phone number to see what came up and just as I had assumed---it's scammers. After reading these stories...I'm convinced not to answer any more calls.

Thank you all for posting these comments!!

Waste your time ......... ask to hold the line and put your phone on the table until they give up waiting.  Next time I may send them a bill for my time.

Im Sorry. I wanted to write : He knew the name from my chef.

I am from germany.
Andrew Mack from New York called me. He wanted to speaks my chef...He knew his own. I said that he is not available and then he wanted to speak another person from my company.
I didnt understand what he really wanted. Just business....
What do they want from us?
I cant understand...I think its really strange.
He gave me an E-mailadress but i cant send an e-mail to it.
amack@laidlawllc.com.

I have personal experience with a few investments with them. They did not turn out well and they accept no responsibility, they made their commission and they move to the next sucker.

These guys have been inundating our company in Dubai with calls. They pretend to be our colleagues from our New York office in order to get mobile numbers & direct lines. Absolute time wasters.

Rob Rotunno just got slapped with another complaint, this time involving OTC - Equity and/or private placements.  Alleged damages are $308,000.   Now, keep in mind it is not final, but still, you have to think that this is probably only the tip of the iceberg.  Only one client chose to pursue action, but there may be many more who lost money and choose not to.

These guys are a complete boiler room.  I'm embarrassed to say I was naive enough to work with them.  They managed to lose money on nearly every stock they bought me and were constantly calling me, trying to convince me to make trades so they could generate commissions for themselves.  I lost 75% over 18 months and paid a total of over 50% commissions.  I finally discovered FINRA broker check and promptly ended my relationship with them after seeing that my broker had been sued numerous times for churning.  I recommend everyone check a brokers history before doing anything business in the investment world. http://www.finra.org/Investors/ToolsCalculators/BrokerCheck/
Do your homework and you won't get tacken advantage of by these clowns.

Some more discouraging things I found when digging a little deeper into Laidlaw:
http://www.securitiesarbitration.com/news/200 ... l-shirk-awards/

http://www.ct.gov/dob/cwp/view.asp?a=2246&q=381950

They keep on calling me even that I have asked to get me out of their listings.
If they want to loose time and spend money on LD-calls, its theyr beer.

Hi Guys. I am dealing with Laidlaw for the last 5 years, wiht individuals in their New York office, Rob Rotunno, Craig Bonn, Kevin Connors, Theo Fowlers, David Gillen. During those 5 years, I invest around 500k USD in their private equity deals, and, I must admit, to date, I got absolutely NO return from those investments, nor the possibilty to recuperate any original capital. Some of those deals are still going on, with some "promisses" for better times, but I heard that song many time already. Best of all is that htose guys continue to give me regular and insisting calls to continue to invest in the account (latest thing is their access to FaceBook and Twitter IPOs), and they are very convincing at giving positive stories about what the outcome would be. I took a position a year ago to not invest any other penny with them, but have a follow up call on 3/4 months basis on the existing deals, with a goal to recuperate as much capital as possible in the next few years. Hopes are not great though. While I believe this cy is legitimate (I actually visited them at their NY offices a few years ago), I would advise anyone to consider the money they put wiht them being at high risk. I wish to believe that some high returns could come from one or another deal, but, so far, nothing for me...

From Laidlaw Consulting in New York ... don't know what he's selling, but it seems a bit dodgy to me.
I'm in NZ, so it's definitely far from home.

Asked for me.  Wife saikd I was not HOME. He responded, "HOME? I was told

this was his work number."  When she told him I was retired X number of

years, he hung up.

stalker

Answered call, was greeted by name and then put through to a 'Mr Sharma' who said he was from Laidlaw. Dropped the call.

Called yesterday asked for me by name and then cut the call off when i asked where he was calling from?

This is how the investment world is guys.  Some people loose and some people win.  I was working with the firm for a little while and it is definetly legit.  Yes some of the employees may not be qualified to make a stock pick, but that does not make them scam artists.  The fact that they are ensuring that you have a net worth over a million and that you start with a small investment of 10-50,000 they are not out to put people on the streets.  Just make sure that you keep track of your investments because as long as you don't give them Discretionary privilages you are in control of the outcome.  All I have to say is the individual I worked under was good at what he did and I watched him make his clients returns I have never seen before.  So use your own judgement but your money is used for what it is intended for.  I just felt someone should stick up for them.

The practices of Craig and his partner Rob Rotunno are frowned upon by most legitimate businesses within the investment management industry.  You should stand up to these people and get some of your money back like LeClerf.   Rotunno did not even attend college, and people blindly send him their money to manage.  If one of the people who work for them make a lot of money they either don't pay or fire them.

i made the mistake of dealing with craig and his associates
dont know anyone else who has a 100% success rate at losing every penny
they get paid by the firms their clients invest in, not for investment returns
run, run fast, and dont look back
send them every penny you never want to see again

I used to work for them too for about a month. They are an investment advisory business called "Laidlaw" and are trying to get in touch with "accredited" investors who are worth more than a million dollars or make more than two-hundred thousand dollars per year (USD). They will try to put your money in equity securities, impress you with the return, and then use your accredited status to get you into private securities offerings. Therefore if you earn less than those amounts they simply won't speak with you. In fact, some investors with them do see pretty substantial returns as this is the only good way to suck them into continuing to invest in the private deals. However, they don't actually have real "investment analysts," and some of the individuals making the decisions on which stocks investors' money will go in are made by individuals without a college education. They often aren't good calls.

When you receive a call, the background noise is actually other individuals making the exact same calls to other investors. They purchase sources of information on wealthy investors (mostly doctors, lawyers, businesspeople and entrepreneurs) - both in the US and UK - and have junior people call about 600 or 800 numbers per day. If the person they desire to speak with answers the phone they will transfer to a senior individual who will then seek to sell financial products. They're good salespeople and you might get a return on your investment but I would be very wary of doing business with them. I wouldn't be surprised if they change phone numbers as a result of this "800notes" message board.

A person named Craig Bonn l has been left message for my boss.  I have been my boss's assistant for nearly a decade and I know a real call when I hear one.  After seeing this his number is in the trash, as I would never trouble him with this.  And they always ask for his mobile too, rude.

You seem to have a very loose notion of what constitutes a 'legit' operation. So by your logic, having multiple locations makes an organization legit? I think we can all come up with many shady organizations with multiple locations that are far from legitimate. Does Micky seem to have something against Laidlaw? You bet. So do I or I wouldn't be wasting my time to find the phone number and a site that tracks the activity of these corporate pests. Try getting 20 calls at work from these guys and then one on your mobile and tell me you don't 'have something against them.' Get real.

Laidlaw really doesn't know when to lay off, does it? I have had nearly 20 phone calls to my land line in the office but a missed call to my mobile today while at home has pushed me over the edge. So I called them and firmly requested to be completely taken out of their system. I was polite and reminded them that it was only counter-productive for their sales force to waste their time and eat away at morale to reach an annoyed person who has repeatedly asked to be left alone. I have never shouted at them or lost my temper yet today the woman I was transferred to in "Compliance" became testy with me about my removal from the system. She claimed that I could only have my phone number removed and not my name. She hung up on me when I repeated the request to be taken completely out of their system. UNBELIEVABLE. What an unprofessional operation -- a bunch of desperate snake oil selling losers. Where is the dignity of these people and how on earth can they actually make any money?

Man says he is calling from the office of Paul Glazier and wants to speak to my husband, who's name he knows.   Caller is very polite and well spoken.  After reading the comments here - more calls will be ignored.  Thanks.

I answered a call from this number on my offices main line, they asked for someone with my same last name just a different first name, I told them there was no one here by that name, then they said my name, and they transferred me to someone claiming to be from a financial institution. I told them I wasn't interested and to take me off their calling list.  What the heck?

I just got a call from that telephone number, someone said Hi and then my name. Then the call was over, just like there had been some dicfficulties wth the connection. I guessed this was one of these nasty numbers and checked from the net and found these messages. I will never phone to them or answer to their calls after this.