Chapter 03 · Corporate records and business roles

The companies: VEW, NWE, the LLCs and V12 Group

Florida registrations and court filings distinguish the entertainment companies, property managers and event brands associated with Burke.

The Ryan Burke Public Record · Updated November 11, 2026 · How this record was compiled

The public record contains several legal entities, not a single company called “VEW.” Vision Entertainment Worldwide and VEW Live have different Florida document numbers and filing dates. NWE appears as both a corporation and an LLC. The property company that filed two bankruptcies is another entity, managed through Burke Development Group. In 2026, V12 Group appears in Florida’s registry and in BZR WKND’s own organizer statement. Their relationships are described below only to the extent established by registrations, testimony, court orders or attributed reporting.^{1 2 3 4 5}

Company register

The table records the Florida Division of Corporations detail pages as reviewed on November 11, 2026. “Active” and “inactive” are registry status labels, not opinions about solvency, performance or payment of judgments. Filing and effective dates are kept separate where they differ. The roles reproduce the filed titles: MGR is manager, MGRM is managing member, and AMBR is authorized member. Those titles do not disclose ownership percentages or establish every person who exercised practical control.

Brickell refers below to 1395 Brickell Avenue, Suite 800, Miami. Michigan refers to 1680 Michigan Avenue, Suite 700, Miami Beach. The ZAO court described those two offices as virtual in 2013. The descriptions are not extended into a finding about their present occupants. Residential street addresses used in property-company filings are withheld.⁶

Dates and legal names

Vision’s 2008 filing predates the chapter’s 2009–2026 reporting window and is included because it identifies the entity later appearing in litigation. Its first annual report is indexed in 2009. LinkedIn dates VEW’s operations to 2003 and VEW Live! to 2005. Neither self-description changes the verified November 7, 2008 and January 14, 2011 LLC filing dates. A business may describe a history preceding a particular incorporation, but the profile does not supply formation documents for that earlier history.^{1 2 17}

The music entity’s verified legal name is “VEW Music Group, LLC,” not an assumed separate corporation called “VEW Music.” The distinction matters when following a court caption or company role. The registry gives Burke the title “President” in an LLC’s authorized-person field. This chapter preserves that title rather than changing the company’s legal form to match it.⁷

The record for VEW Live also lists VEW Marketing, Inc. as MGRM. There are two verified Florida registrations with that corporate name: P11000004667, filed January 13, 2011 and administratively dissolved September 28, 2012, and P19000038710, filed May 1, 2019 and active after a February 24, 2026 reinstatement. Both identify Burke as president and registered agent at Brickell. VEW Live’s displayed manager name does not itself specify which document number it means. The two marketing registrations should not be merged or assigned a succession relationship without the relevant instruments.^{2 24}

NWE: listed officers and the court’s account of control

The most specific account of practical corporate control appears in Magistrate Judge John J. O’Sullivan’s January 9, 2013 summary-judgment order in TV Service ZAO v. NWE Talent Agency and Management. The order identifies Burke as Vision’s president and as a “designated agent” and “senior booking agent” for NWE. Its facts section says his mother was listed as NWE’s president to create the appearance that NWE and Vision were distinct, calls her a “figurehead,” and describes Burke as the controlling member and corporate representative of both. The family member’s name is omitted here.⁶

The order also describes a cousin as briefly holding NWE’s chief operating officer title from January through June 2012, with no earlier entertainment-industry experience. It says the January 10 proposal was signed only by that cousin and not accepted by Lady Gaga or her authorized representatives. No private family name is necessary to report the corporate role or the court’s account of authority.⁶

Those findings differ from the Sunbiz officer fields. The corporation page lists the president/agent but not Burke; the LLC page lists the same family member as MGRM and an attorney as agent. The court order supplies the evidence of Burke’s practical control that the registry page alone does not. Conversely, the court’s collective term “Burke Entities” identifies parties in that particular case. It is not a blanket ruling that every later company in this chapter was his alter ego or responsible for every other company’s debts.^{3 8 6}

NWE Inc.’s last event is a January 31, 2012 conversion. The NWE LLC was filed that day with an effective date matching the corporation’s January 13, 2011 effective date. The records are consistent with a conversion, but the actual conversion instrument was not reviewed. The LLC was later administratively dissolved for a registered-agent issue on July 22, 2013; the image index also lists an agent resignation. That is not described as an annual-report dissolution.^{3 8}

Dissolutions and reinstatements

VEW Live’s event history records an annual-report administrative dissolution on September 28, 2012 and reinstatement March 21, 2013. It records another annual-report dissolution September 26, 2025 and reinstatement February 24, 2026. Vision’s history records dissolution September 24, 2010 and reinstatement January 10, 2011, followed by the same September 2025 and February 2026 pair. The 2025/2026 entries repeat on the displayed histories; repetition is not counted as a second dissolution.¹⁸

Vision’s history also records a January 12, 2012 name change from the misspelled “VISION ENTERTAINMENT WORLWIDE LLC” and an August 10, 2017 amendment. The displayed latest report tables for Vision and VEW Live show 2025 and 2026 reports filed on February 24, 2026. These are registry events. They do not show when every business activity stopped or resumed, establish insolvency, or resolve liability in a lawsuit.^{18 1 2}

The property entities’ displayed dissolution dates differ: Saddle Club in September 2023, the 2045 company in September 2025 and Burke Development Group in September 2026. None of their inspected detail pages shows a later reinstatement. The existence of a bankruptcy proceeding and the state registry’s inactive label are separate recorded facts. One should not replace the other in a description of the company’s status.^{9 4 12}

V12’s March 2026 page displays “No Annual Reports Filed” and “No Events.” That does not prove that an annual report was overdue. UCA’s page records reinstatement February 24, 2026. For these entries, this chapter reports the detail page and its last-event field, not an independently reconstructed history of every earlier filing or lapse.^{5 13}

What court records say about the money

The common addresses and roles do not provide a consolidated financial statement. The reviewed court documents describe particular payments and claims. They are kept separate below. No account numbers are reproduced, and no unexplained difference between sums is called a transfer to Burke or another entity without evidence.

ZAO: deposits at NWE

The 2013 order says WMA and NWE entered an August 23, 2011 binder agreement requiring a $150,000 deposit to be placed in NWE’s escrow account. It records that NWE received the deposit and that the agreement promised refunds if the artist did not accept or negotiations did not produce executed contracts. Around December 27, WMA paid NWE another $1,350,000 on ZAO’s behalf. Burke’s December email, quoted in the order, said the money would go directly to NWE and then to the artist’s management or agent.⁶

The court records $1.5 million received by NWE and $1.05 million remaining in its bank account on January 31, 2012. Its footnote identifies the February 1 freezing order. These facts show the recipient, contractual escrow description and reported remaining balance. They do not establish a verified ultimate destination for the difference, a payment to Lady Gaga, or a transfer to each other VEW company.⁶

The ZAO chapter explains the separate agreements and the limits of that ruling. The order is not a final fraud judgment against Burke on ZAO’s pleaded claims.

Kameka: loan and lien figures, not an entity-by-entity bank trail

The July 12, 2022 amended default judgment, attached to the creditors’ bankruptcy claim, states $200,000 principal, interest and costs, and a $120,000 payment credit, producing a $107,212 equitable lien. It names the case’s defendants, including Burke, VEW Live and the two property LLCs. It does not attach a complete ledger showing which entity first received each loan dollar or where each payment came from.¹⁹

The May 2025 claim describes its basis as “Money loaned” and claims $178,415.77 after interest and additional fees/costs. It is a creditor submission, not proof of the amount later allowed or paid. Burke’s February deposition concerns service and roles, not loan formation or diversion of proceeds. The account therefore does not import the earlier reports’ descriptions of separate advances and repayments as sworn admissions.^{19 10}

The debtor’s May 2, 2025 summary says the bankruptcy was filed to stop foreclosure, describes real-estate investment and calls its financial figures approximations for background information. It identifies Burke as manager and sole shareholder, while the signature identifies Burke Development Group as manager and Burke as that entity’s manager. That is evidence of a management relationship, not proof that all three subjects had interchangeable assets.¹¹

The loan chapter and bankruptcy chapter address the later service and enforcement issues. These proceedings do not furnish a basis for labeling every VEW receipt as property-company money.

Echols: alleged recipients in a filed complaint

Echols and Mosley’s June 2025 Illinois complaint alleges contracts bearing VEW Live, Vision and UCA letterheads. Paragraph 12 alleges $150,000 to UCA, $62,500 to Burke personally, and $15,645.95 and $70,000 to VEW Live. The four figures total $298,145.95. Vision is named on the alleged documents but is not listed as a separate payment recipient in that paragraph.¹⁵

The complaint’s letterhead allegations do not establish which company signed each obligation. The appearance and jurisdiction motion also dispute the individual designation, using “Putative Defendant Ryan Matthew Burke, erroneously sued as ‘Ryan Burke’.” The available docket wording does not resolve that dispute or supply the terms of the later judgment. The Echols chapter preserves both the allegations and that response.²¹

Talent-agency licensing

The ZAO order’s facts section states: “The Burke Entities are not licensed talent agencies pursuant to section 468.403 of the Florida Statutes.” This is the order’s historical finding about the defendants then before it. It is not a current licensing search for every entity formed afterward.⁶

Florida Statutes section 468.401 defines a talent agency as a person who, for compensation, procures or attempts to procure engagements for an artist. Section 468.403 generally requires a license from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation before conducting that occupation in Florida. It exempts acting for oneself, a family member or exclusively one artist, but separately restricts advertising or holding oneself out as a “talent agency” or “talent agent” without the license.²²

The application requirements include operator experience, fingerprints and photographs, the location, relevant ownership or managing information, and references. Incorporation on Sunbiz is not this professional license. Conversely, the occupation “promoter” is not automatically a judicial finding that a particular transaction falls within the statutory definition.²²

The nonlicensure statement and the decision not to resolve the contract-voidness theory can both be reported. Neither warrants saying that this order imposed a licensing penalty, revoked a license, or adjudicated the legality of all Burke’s later bookings.

UCA, V12 and event brands

The Gleaner named UCA as a BZR partner in 2023. The Florida UCA record lists Vanessa Cepeda, not Burke, as president and registered agent. Its Michigan address matches NWE’s historical office and the Illinois complaint’s UCA listing. That corroborates a business context but does not prove Burke owned UCA, controlled its bank accounts or was entitled to bind it in every event. No separate Jamaican company registration was verified.^{14 13 15}

V12 has a more direct registry connection: Burke is its listed authorized member at Brickell. The live BZR website’s refund/postponement statement is signed “V12 Group and the BZR WKND Jamaica Team.” Together these sources connect the Florida entity to the 2026 event’s public communications. They do not identify the legal signatory to the Cardi B artist agreement, which was not reviewed.^{5 16}

The verified trademark reproduction is for VEW LIVE!, serial 86785472 and registration 5034854. Justia identifies Ryan Burke as the individual original registrant, a filing on October 12, 2015, registration September 6, 2016 and claimed first use December 1, 2009. Its displayed “Registered” status carries a 2016 status date. Trademarkia records “CANCELLED - SECTION 8” on March 17, 2023. A current primary USPTO status for the correct serial was not independently retrieved; the two mirrors’ different update dates are disclosed.²³

No attributable VEWtopia or BZR trademark serial or registration was verified in the searches reviewed. That is not a finding that neither brand has rights or registrations. An event name, company filing and trademark are different records. OpenCorporates corroborates VEW Live’s document number, agent and Brickell address; Bizapedia returned an automated-query restriction rather than company details. Neither source was used to invent missing ownership or financial information.²⁵

What remains unresolved

The NWE conversion instrument, the document number intended by VEW Live’s VEW Marketing manager entry, beneficial ownership and complete historical filing images remain unverified. UCA’s ownership, any Jamaican registration and its authority in the alleged Illinois contracts are unresolved. The artist agreement’s contracting party, bank reconciliation and any court ruling on the 2026 payment dispute were unavailable. Current talent-agency licensing, primary current trademark status, and attributable VEWtopia/BZR registrations were not established. The court materials do not supply a complete intercompany money trail; they support only the particular deposits, loan figures, management statements and allegations described above.