Class Action

Class Action Complaint "against Defendants for injury under unfair competition and violations of Security Exchange Commission laws for attempts to monopolize the cryptocurrency platform market by hurting the competitor trading platforms operated by the FTX Entities" in Nir Lahav v. Binance Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands crypto firm based in China; BAM Trading Services Inc., BAM Management US Holdings Inc., and Changpeng Zhao at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Joshua Kalkbrenner v. Hummingbird Funds LLC, d.b.a. Blue Trust Loans; David Johnson, Kirk Michael Chewning, Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP, of the U.S. Virgin Islands; Dimension Credit (Cayman), L.P., of the Cayman Islands; Strategic Link Consulting, LP, Esoteric Ventures, LLC, InfoTel International Ltd., M. Mark High, Ltd., of Belize; Kim Anderson, Jay Clark, and LaCourte Oreilles Financial Services II, LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Class Action Complaint "by Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and the thousands of similarly situated persons whose cryptocurrency account trading credentials were acquired and/or accessed by unauthorized persons in a data breach (or data breaches) that 3Commas admitted on December 28, 2022" in Lorne Tritt, Bruce Johnson, and Joseph Fishman v. 3Commas Technologies OÜ, described as an Estonia company that "claims to be the largest crypto trading bot platform", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Tricia Janetzke v. Opichi Funds LLC, d.b.a. eLoanWarehouse.com, purportedly "an entity organized as “an economic development arm and instrumentality of, and wholly-owned and controlled by, the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, a federally-recognized sovereign American Indian Tribe"; David Johnson, Kirk Michael Chewning, Cane Bay Partners VI, LLLP, Dimension Credit (Cayman), L.P., of the Cayman Islands; Strategic Link Consulting, LP, Esoteric Ventures, LLC, InfoTel International Ltd., of Belize; M. Mark High, Ltd., of Belize; Kim Anderson, Jay Clark, LaCourte Oreilles Financial Services II, LLC and Does 1-20 at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Complaint for "for lender liability against the Defendants arising from loans and financing which directly promoted, and continues to promote, significant environmental degradation in and around the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais" in City of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, Brazil v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Barclays Capital Inc., Citibank Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., JPMorgan, and JPMorgan Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Ubaydullo Mirvaydulloev v. Sea Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, Singapore-based company that is part of a froup that "provides digital entertainment, ecommerce, and digital financial services in Asia, Latin America, and internationally"; Forrest Xiaodong Li, and Tony Tianyu Hou at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.

First Amended Class Action Complaint alleging that "As a result of Defendants' negligent, fraudulent, and unlawful conduct, countless Atomic Wallet user wallets around the world were hacked by North Korean hackers, resulting in the loss of over $100,000,000.00 USD worth of cryptocurrency related assets on or about June 3, 2023" in Robert Meany, Graham Dickinson, John Briscoe, Todd Gammon, Michael Fisk, Paul Unruh, Jovan Silva Delgado, Gregory Loberg, Vincent D'Amelio, Carter Ruess, Daniel Werter, Jeffrey Rogers, Erik Nelson, Landon Grubb, Sam Breazeale, Brenda Abbley, Dereck Ernest, Eric Jensen, Douglas Edwards, Dustin Falk, and Daniel Hayes v. Atomic Protocol Systems OÜ, d.b.a. Atomic Wallet, of Estonia; Evercode Infinite, d.b.a. Evercode Lab, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Konstantin Gladyshev, a.k.a. Konstantin Gladych; Ilia Brusov, a.k.a. Ilya Berezovsky, a.k.a. Ilya Bere, and Pavel Sokolov, a.k.a. Paul Sokolov, described as citizens and residents of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Class Action Complaint "for falsely advertising price discounts for in-game purchases and other deceptive and unfair business practices in its mobile application game" in Loren Kelly v. FunPlus International AG, of Switzerland, and KingsGroup Holdings, of the Cayman Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Alexander Chernyavsky, of Florida; Ryan Henderson, of California; Vitor Vozza, a citizen and resident of Brazil; Kyle Rupprecht, a citizen and resident of Canada; Warren Winter, a citizen and resident of Germany; Sunil Kavuri, a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom v. Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, of Singapore; Temasek International (USA) LLC, SoftBank Group Corp., SB Group US, Inc., Softbank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Softbank Global Advisers Limited, Sino Global Capital Limited, and Sino Global Capital Holdings, LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging a law firm participated in a crypto fraud by the FTX Group in Leandro Cabo, of California; Ryan Henderson, of California; Kyle Rupprecht, a citizen and resident of Canada; Vijeth Shetty, of Florida, and Warren Winter, a citizen and resident of Germany v. Fenwick & West LLP at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

First Amended Class Action Complaint "that arises out of Defendants’ deceptive practices in connection with its flights, including: the airline’s refusal to refund consumers for covid-induced cancellations, and Defendants’ issuing travel funds for non-existent flights and implementing an expiration date on “Travel Bank” funds" in Danielle Yoshimura v. Virgin Group Limited, of England; Virgin Holdings Limited, of England, and Bain Capital LP, of USA, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Connor O'Keefe v. Farmington State Bank, a.k.a. Moonstone Bank; Deltec Bank & Trust Company Limited, described as "an offshore bank licensed and operating in The Bahamas", and Jean Chalopin, described as "a banking executive domiciled in The Bahamas", at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.

Amended Complaint in William McGreevy, Ashwin Gowda, Translunar Crypto LP, Christopher Buttenham, and Remo Maria Morone v. Digital Currency Group Inc., Barry Silbert, Glenn Hutchins, Lawrence Lenihan, Michael Kraines, Mark Murphy, Soichiro 'Michael' Moro, Derar Islim, and Matthew Ballensweig at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Class Action Complaint alleging violations of the Securities Act of 1933 "with respect to Defendant's offering and soliciting shareholders of Hub Cyber Security (Israel) Ltd. to exchange their investments in Legacy HUB for the Company’s common stock in connection with the Legacy HUB’s merger with Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp." in Efrat Investments LLC v. Hub Cyber Security Ltd., of Israel, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

First Amended Class Action Complaint in Michael Sizemore v. Changpeng Zhao, Binance Holdings Limited, of the Cayman Islands; BAM Trading Services Inc., of Delaware, USA; BAM Management US Holdings Inc., of Delaware, USA; Binance Holdings (IE) Limited, of Ireland; Binance (Services) Holdings Limited, of Ireland; Paxos Trust Company LLC, of New York, USA; Jimmy Butler, described as "a star basketball player for the Miami Heat", and Ben Armstrong, described as "a YouTuber with more than 1.5 million subscribers to his YouTube page", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Larry Bergmann v. GDS Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based company that "purports to be "a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers in China and South East Asia""; William Wei Huang, and Daniel Newman at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Lavale Burns v. UP Fintech Holding Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company based in China; Tianhua Wu, andJohn Fei Zeng at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in William Bazzelle Sr. v. NovoCure Limited, described as being domiciled in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, and managed in Switzerland; William Doyle, and Asaf Danziger at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Second Amended Complaint in Dagan Investments LLC v. First High-School Education Group Co. Ltd., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled "for-profit education company that operates a network of schools in the People’s Republic of China"; Shaowei Zhang, Lidong Zhu, Guangzhou Zhao, Yuanlin Hu, Longwater Topco BV, EQT Mid Market Asia III Limited Partnership, EQT Mid Market Asia III GP BV, EQT Fund Management Sàrl, of Luxembourg; Colleen A. DeVries, Cogency Global Inc., The Benchmark Company LLC, Valuable Capital Group Limited, TFI Securities and Futures Limited, AMTD Global Markets Limited, Maxim Group LLC, Boustead Securities LLC, Futu Inc., US Tiger Securities Inc., and Fosun Hani Securities Limited at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Jennifer Henry v. Futu Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, Hong Kong-based company that "purports to be "an advanced technology company transforming the investing experience by offering fully digitalized financial services""; Leaf Hua Li, and Arthur Yu Chen at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Kenny Baker v. Barclays Plc, Barclays Bank Plc, James E. Staley, C.S. Venkatakrishnan, Tushar Morzaria, Steven Ewart, Tim Throsby, Anna Cross, Nigel Higgins, Alex Thursby, Helen Keelan, Héléne Vletter-Van Dort, Jeremy Scott, and Maria Richter at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in David Rigo Fernandez v. DouYu International Holdings Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company that "purports to be “a leading game-centric live streaming platform in China and a pioneer in the eSports value chain"; Shaojie Chen, and Mingming Su at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint in Michael Osterer in BAM Trading Services Inc., d.b.a. Binance.US, of Delaware, and Binance Holdings Ltd., d.b.a. Binance, of the Cayman Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Acton Complaint alleging fraud involving "the mobile game Tycoon Casino that competes in the so-called "social casino" marketing" in Michael Molloy v. Triwin Inc., of the Cayman Islands, and Triwin Games Co. Ltd., of Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Gregory A. Stevenson v. Richard E. Thornburgh, Bradley W. Dougan, John G. Popp, Brian Chin, Jay Kim, Albert Sohn, Mirko Bianchi, Urs Rohner, John Tiner, Severin Schwan, Iris Bohnet, Lydie Hudson, Kaikhushru S. Nargolwala, Seraina Macia, Joaquin J. Ribeiro, Michael Klein, Noreen Doyle, James L. Amine, Eric Varvel, Romeo Cerutti, David L. Miller, David R. Mathers, Lara J. Warner, Timothy P. O'Hara, Robert S. Shafir, Pamela A. Thomas-Graham, Sean T. Brady, Robert Jain, Philip Vasan, Credit Suisse Holdings (USA) Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse Capital LLC, Credit Suisse Management LLC, KPMG LLP, KPMG LLC, Paul Knopp,, William Thomas, Larry Bradley, Laura M. Newinski, Regina H. Mayor, John B. Veihmeyer, Brian J. Sweet, David Britt, Scott Marcello, David Middendorf, Thomas Whittle, Cynthia Holder, and Jeffrey Wada at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving a crypto enterprise called Astrals Project in Daniel Harper v. Shaquille O'Neal at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint in Indiana Public Retirement System, Boston Retirement System, Public School Teachers' Pension & Retirement Fund of Chicago, International Union of Operating Engineers Local No. 793 Members Pension Benefit Trust of Ontario, UMC Benefit Board, Inc. and Wespath Institutional Investments LLC, both as administrative trustees of the Wespath Funds Trust; Bucks County Employees Retirement Fund, Jacob Guz, and John Thomas v. Silvergate Capital Corporation, Karen F. Brassfield, Robert C. Campbell, Canaccord Genuity LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Paul D. Colucci, Compass Point Research & Trading LLC, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Thomas C. Dircks, Kathleen M. Fraher, Dennis S. Frank, Goldberg-Flores LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Aanchal Gupta, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., Alan J. Lane, Michael Lempres, Antonio Martino, Scott Reed, Benjamin C. Reynolds, Colleen Sullivan, UBS Securities LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., and Wedbush Securities LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud, RICO, and defamation brought on behalf of those "who have been identified by the Defendants as a terrorist, and in some instances denied access to various financial websites and accounts because of the actions of the Defendants in listing those persons on a terrorist watch list generated by the Turkish government, which the U.S. government has disparaged" in Ahmet S. Yayla, Selcuk Atak, and Murat Kalyoncu, all described as "former residents of Turkey" currently residing in the United States v. Refinitiv US LLC, described as the U.S.-based operating arm of a group whose products include a 'Know Your Customer' database product known as World-Check, and Does 1-10 at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Mislav Basic, Nathan Gruber, Oren Gruber, Kevin Boudreau, Daniel Schwaibold, Alex Thomas, Gregory Thomas, and Benjamin Ayers v. BProtocol Foundation, of Switzerland and Israel; Bancor DAO, of Switzerland; Galia Benartzi, Guy Benartzi, Eyal Hertzog, and Yehuda Levi, all described as residents of Israel, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.

Class Action Complaint in Osaneme Okaro v. Icahn Enterprises L.P., Carl C. Icahn, David Willetts, Ted Papapostolou, Keith Cozza, and SungHwan Cho at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Amended Class Action Complaint in Louis Zhao v. Eqonex Limited, described as “a Singapore-domiciled digital assets financial services company”; Binance Group, described as “the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider”; Bitfinity UAB, described as “a payments technology company, incorporated in the Republic of Lithuania”; Jonathan Farnell, Daniel Ling, Almira Gemmell, Yu Helen Hai, and Changpeng Zhao at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint "to redress and curtail Defendants’ unlawful collections, obtainments, use, storage, and disclosure of Plaintiff’s sensitive and proprietary biometric identifiers and/or biometric information" in Michael Massel v. Coinbase and Does at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging "deceptive practices in connection with its flights" in Danielle Yoshimura v. Virgin Group Ltd. and Virgin Holdings Limited, both of England, at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Louis Zhao v. Eqonex Limited, described as "a Singapore-domiciled digital assets financial services company"; Binance Group, described as "the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider"; Bitfinity UAB, described as "a payments technology company, incorporated in the Republic of Lithuania"; Jonathan Farnell, Daniel Ling, Almira Gemmell, Yu Helen Hai, and Changpeng Zhao at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in S.G., described as a resident of China, and M.G., described as a resident of New York v. Bank of China Ltd., described as "a Chinese state-owned commercial bank" and "the fourth largest bank in the world"; Bank of China U.S.A., BOC International Holdings Ltd., of Hong Kong; BOCI Commodities & Futures (USA) LLC, CME Group Inc., and New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Official Intelligence Pty Ltd., of Australia v. Block Inc., Jack Dorsey, and Jim McKelvey at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Michael Sizemore, Mikey Vongdara, and Rudy Vazquez v. Changpeng Zhao, described as a citizen of Canada residing in Dubai, UAE; Binance Holdings Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Binance Holdings (IE) Limited, of Ireland; Binance (Services) Holdings Limited, of Ireland; BAM Trading Services Inc., of Delaware; Jimmy Butler, a professional basketball player; Graham Stephan, described as "a YouTube star with over 4.1 million subscribers to his YouTube pages", and Ben Armstrong, described as "a YouTuber with more than 1.5 million subscribers to his YouTube page", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Third Amended Class Action Complaint in Peter Johnson v. Maker Ecosystem Growth Holdings Inc., now known as Metronym Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled operator of "a cryptocurrency platform", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Second Amended Class Action Complaint alleging violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in John Blotzer, Katie Rutherford, and Ryan Wadsworth v. Brock Pierce, described as "a 2020 candidate for President of the United States", at the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Class Action Complaint in Dr. Ruth C. May and Donna E. Ledgerwood v. Barclays Plc and Barclays Bank Plc, both of England, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Second Amended Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving BitMEX crypto exchange in Brett Messieh and Drew Lee v. HDR Global Trading Ltd., of the Seychelles; ABS Global Trading Limited, of Delaware; 100X Holdings Limited, of Bermuda; Shine Effort Inc Limited, of Hong Kong; HDR Global Services (Bermuda) Limited, of Bermuda, collectively referred to as BitMEX, "one of the world’s largest crypto-asset exchanges"; Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, Greg Dwyer, and Samuel Reed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Elliot Snook v. SVB Financial Group, Greg W. Becker, and Daniel J. Beck at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging crypto promotional fraud by "FTX Influencers", most of whom were described as 'YouTube stars', in Edwin Garrison, of Oklahoma; Gregg Podalsky, of Florida; Skyler Lindeen, of Florida; Alexander Chernyavsky, of Florida; Sunil Kavuri, of the United Kingdom; Gary Gallant, of Canada, and David Nicol, of Australia v. Kevin Paffrath, Graham Stephan, Andrei Jikh, Jaspreet Singh, Brian Jung, Jeremy Lefebvre, Tom Nash, of Australia; Ben Armstrong, Erika Kullberg, and Creators Agency LLC, described as a Delaware-domiciled, Japan-based "talent management firm and digital ad network which promoted FTX", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Chandra Vanipenta v. SVB Financial Group, parent of Silicon Valley Bank; Greg W. Becker, and Daniel Beck at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Justin Dufoe v. DraftKings Inc., Jason D. Robins, Jason K. Park, and Matthew Kalish at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Patrick Calhoun v. Credit Suisse Group AG, of Switzerland; Axel P. Lehmann, Ulrich Korner, and Dixit Joshi at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint "to stop the “world’s first robot lawyer” from continuing to engage in the unauthorized practice of law."in Jonathan Faridian v. DoNotPay Inc. at the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in City of Omaha Police and Firefighters Retirement System v. Cognyte Software Ltd., described as an Israel-based company that "describes itself as a global leader in investigative analytics software that empowers governments and enterprises with Actionable Intelligence for a safer world"; Elad Sharon, and David Abadi at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging crypto fraud in Trey Greene v. Zac Prince, Flori Marquez, Tony Laura, Jennifer Hill, and Gemini Trading LLC at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint in Tobias Moeller-Bertram, "who invested in the Gemini Earn program" v. Gemini Trust Company LLC and Digital Currency Group Inc. at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.