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Livermore Investment Group is an investment company established by Arnon Katz and Noam Lanir
Noam Lanir
Noam Lanir is an Israeli entrepreneur and the controlling shareholder and CEO of Livermore Investment Company, which is traded on the Alternative Investment Market since 2005.- Early life :...

 traded on the London Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...

 under the symbol LIV. Formerly known as Empire Online, the company was created in 2002. It is located in the British Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands
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 and employs 40 people.

Subsequent to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
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, the company terminated its previous business activity of promoting multiple online casino
Online casino
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, online poker
Online poker
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, and online bingo
Online bingo
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 properties.

Previously the company's flagship poker product was Empire Poker, but the company sold that brand in 2006 to PartyGaming
PartyGaming
bwin.Party Digital Entertainment Plc is an online gambling company, formed by the March 2011 merger of PartyGaming plc and bwin. The world's largest publicly traded online gambling firm, it is best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com and its sports betting brand Bwin. It is...

as part of a settlement of a dispute between the former partners. In December 2006 the company announced its remaining gaming assets were purchased by PartyGaming.

Corporate information

The company's board of directors includes:
  • Lord Leonard Steinburg, Non-Executive Chairman
  • Noam Lanir, CEO
  • Andrew Rae Burns, CFO
  • Richard Barry Rosenberg, Non-Executive Director
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