Class Action

Class Action Complaint regarding trading in GameStop Corp. in Asad Noorzaie v. Robinhood Financial LLC, Robinhood Securities LLC, and Robinhood Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint accusing an "online brokerage firm" of "purposefully, willfully, and knowingly removing the stock "GME" [GameStop Corp.] from its trading platform in the midst of an unprecedented stock rise thereby deprived retail investors of the ability to invest in the open-market and manipulating the open-market" in Brendon Nelson v. Robinhood Financial LLC, Robinhood Securities LLC, and Robinhood Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging "a scheme to defraud Plaintiff and class members by selling counterfeited and nonexistent insurance policies, which purport to provide general commercial, accident, directors' and officers', auto and other types of insurance to Plaintiff and class members, which primarily include youth sports teams, leagues, and athletes throughout the United States" in Del Obispo Youth Baseball Inc., d.b.a. Dana Point Youth Baseball v. The Ambassador Group LLC, d.b.a. Ambassador Captive Solutions, of Kentucky; Performance Insurance Company SPC, of the Cayman Islands; Brandon White, and Goldenstar Specialty Insurance LLC, of Pennsylvania, at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging "failure to properly secure and safeguard personal identifiable information that Defendant required from its customers as a condition of providing online payment services, including without limitation, names, contact details, Social Security numbers, and bank account information" in Kamal Bitmouni v. Paysafe Limited, of Bermuda, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Anthony Pauwels v. Bit Digital, Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled "holding company that purports to engage in the bitcoin mining business through its wholly owned subsidiaries in U.S. and Hong Kong" and whose shares are listed on NASDAQ; Min Hu, and Erke Huang at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Craig J. Holland v. 9F Inc., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based company "primarily engaged in the provision of financial investment services in China through a digital financial account platform" whose securities are listed on NASDAQ; Lei Sun, Yanjun Lin, Yifan Ren, Changxing Xiao, Flynn Xuxian Huang, Ivan Xu, Junsheng Zhang, Wing Hon Cheung, Fangxiong Gong, David Cui, Lei Liu, Siu Fung Ming, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, of Los Angeles, California; Haitong International Securities Company Limited, of Hong Kong; CLSA Limited, of Hong Kong; China Investment Securities International Brokerage Limited, of Hong Kong; 9F Primasia Securities Limited, of Hong Kong, and Cogency Global Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint in Yoav Gutman v. Lizhi Inc., of China; Jinnan Lai, Ning Ding, Zelong Li, Xi Chen, Tao Huang, Ye Yuan, Richard Arthur, Colleen A. de Vries, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Haitong International Securities Company Limited, of Hong Kong; AMTD Global Markets Limited, of Hong Kong; Needham & Company LLC, of New York; Tiger Brokers (NZ) Limited, of New Zealand; China Merchants Securities (HK) Co. Limited, of Hong Kong; Valuable Capital Limited, of Hong Kong; Prime Number Capital LLC, and Cogency Global Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Frank Gallo v. Nielsen Holdings Plc, described as a British "global measurement and data analytics company providing a view of consumers and markets worldwide" and whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; James A. Attwood, Jr., David Kenny, Thomas H. Castro, Guerrino de Luca, Karen M. Hoguet, Harish Manwani, Janice Marinelli Mazza, Jonathan Miller, Robert C. Pozen, David Rawlinson, Nancy Tellem, Javier G. Teruel, and Lauren Zalaznick at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Elissa Hess, as Trustee for the EH Living Trust v. Alibaba Group Holding Limited, described as a Cayman Islands company, based in Hong Kong which is "the largest e-retailer in the world" and whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Daniel Zhang, and Maggie Wu at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Nicholas Petruzzi v. Qiwi Plc, described as a Cyprus company that "purports to operate electronic online payment systems primarily in Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally" in Boris Kim, Sergey Solonin, Alexander Karavaev, and Varvara Kiseleva at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Amended Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Carol A. Brown v. Wirecard AG, of Germany; Markus Braun, Jan Marsalek, Burkhard Ley, Alexander von Knoop, Susanne Steidl, Wulf Matthias, and Ernst & Young GmbH Wirtschaftspruefungsgesellschaft at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Dale H. Ochakoff v. Qiwi Plc, described as a Cyprus company that "purports to operate electronic online payment systems primarily in the Russia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, and internationally"; Boris Kim, Sergey Solonin, Alexander Karavaev, and Varvara Kiseleva at the . S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Ed J. Hershewe v. JOYY Inc., formerly known as YY Inc., described as a Cayman Islands company based in China whose shares are listed on NASDAQ; David Xueling Li, Bing Jin, and Eric He at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint in Laura Ciccarello v. Alibaba Group Holding Limited, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled "online and mobile commerce company" whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Daniel Zhang, and Maggie Wu at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Kaushal Mehta v. JPMorgan Chase & Co., James Dimon, Jennifer Piepszak, and Marianne Lake at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Alexandre Golovanov v. Innate Pharma S.A., described as being a French company that "purports to be a clinical-stage biotechnology company engaged in discovering and developing first-in-class therapeutic antibodies that harness the innate immune system to improve cancer treatment and clinical outcomes for patients" and whose securities were listed on NASDAQ; Mondher Mahjoubi, and Laure-Helene Mercieret at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Anthony Franchi v. Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd., described as a Canadian "international mining company focused on the operation and development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Southern Mongolia, which is the Company's principal and only material resource property" whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Ulf Quellmann, Brendan Lane, Luke Colton, Rio Tinto Plc, of England; Rio Tinto Limited, of Australia; Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited, of England; Jean-Sébastien Jacques, and Arnaud Soirat at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Irene Krystal v. Mesoblast Limited, described as an Australian firm whose securities are listed on NASDAQ; Silviu Itescu, and Josh Muntner at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in City of Riviera Beach General Employees Retirement System v. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., described as a Liberia-domiciled company based in Miami whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Richard Fain, Jason Liberty, and Michael Bayley at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Stephen Lawless v. Aurora Cannabis Inc., of Edmonton, Canada; Michael Singer, and Glen Ibbott at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Allon Yaroni v. Pintec Technology Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands company based in China whose securities are listed on NASDAQ; Wei Wei, Steven Yuan Ning Sim, Jun Dong, Jing Zhou, Xiaomei Peng, Chao Zhou, Feng Hong, Jiacheng Liu, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Christopher Strianese v. GoHealth Inc., Clinton P. Jones, Brandon M. Cruz, Travis J. Matthiesen, NVX Holdings Inc., Centerbridge Partners LP, CCP III AIV VII Holdings LP, CB Blizzard Co-Invest Holdings LP, Blizzard Aggregator LLC, Centerbridge Associates III LP,  CCP III Cayman GP Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Second Amended Class Action Complaint alleging the defendants perpetrated "a massive fraud perpetrated on millions of individual investors throughout the world causing injuries in excess of $4 billion through a densely-packed multi-level marketing system" in Donald Berdeaux and Christine Grablis v. OneCoin Ltd., of Dubai; Ruja Ignatova, of Bulgaria; Sebastian Greenwood, "currently being held in federal custody in New York pending trial"; Mark Scott, "believed to have been domiciled in Coral Gables, Florida" who allegedly laundered fraud proceeds through accounts "in the Cayman Islands and the Republic of Ireland, among other locations"; David Pike, "believed to be domiciled in Coral Gables, Florida"; Nicole J. Huesmann, "believed to be domiciled in Coral Gables, Florida"; Gilbert Armenta, "believed to be domiciled in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida", and The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, of New York, at U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Daniel Zarabi v. Golar LNG Limited, of Bermuda; Iain Ross, and Eduardo Navarro Antonello at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging Securities Act violations in Helen Hudson v. GoHealth Inc., described as an operator of "a health insurance marketplace" whose share are listed on NASDAQ; Clinton P. Jones, Brandon M. Cruz, Travis J. Matthiesen, NVX Holdings Inc., Centerbidge Partners LP, CCP III AIV VII Holdings LP, CB Blizzard Co-Invest Holdings LP, Blizzard Aggregator LLC, Centerbridge Associates III LP, CCP III Cayman GP Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities Inc., and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Harinath Nampally v. Baidu Inc., a Cayman Islands company based in China; Robin Yanhong Li, Herman Cheng-Chun Yu, and Jennifer Xinzhe Li at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Mark Spanier v. Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, a.k.a. BMW, of Germany; BMW (US) Holding Corp., Oliver Zipse, Harald Krüger, Norbert Reithofer, Bernhard Kuhnt, Nicolas Peter, and Ludwig Willisch at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Amended Class Action Complaint "on behalf of all investors who purchased securities issued by Block.one called 'EOS Tokens' in or traceable to the initial coin offering" in Chase Williams and William Zhang v. Block.one, of the Cayman Islands; Brendan Blumer, described as a resident of Hong Kong; and Daniel Larimer, described as a resident of Virginia, and Crypto Assets Opportunity Fund LLC, of Illinois, and Johnny Hong v. Block.one, Brendan Blumer, Daniel Larimer, Ian Grigg, described as a resident of Hong Kong, and Brock Pierce, described as a resident of Puerto Rico, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Lucian Hornea v. GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes S.A., described as a Brazil-based provider of "air passenger transportation services" whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Paulo Sergio Kakinoff, and Richard F. Lark, Jr. at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint "on behalf of every individual who invested in one of YieldStreet's vessel deconstruction, oil & gas, or other defaulted funds on the basis of the false and misleading statements" in Michael Tecku, David Finkelstein, Lawrence Tjok, and Adrienne Cerulo v. YieldStreet Inc., YieldStreet Management LLC, YS ALTNOTES I LLC, YS ALTNOTES II LLC, all domiciled in Delaware, based in New York, and Michael Weisz at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Robert Solis v. LexinFintech Holdings, Ltd., a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ and which "purports to operate as an online consumer finance platform for young professionals in the People's Republic of China"; Jay Wenjie Xiao, and Craig Yan Zeng at the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Class Action Complaint alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act in Adam Franchi v. Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Massachusetts, described as "a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of a novel class of therapeutics using its proprietary small molecule nucleotide platform" whose shares are listed on NASDAQ; David Arkowitz, Todd Brady, Timothy Clackson, Martin Driscoll, Kurt M. Eichler, Pamela Klein, Scott Smith, and F-star Therpaeutics Limited, of England, at the U. S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Rihanna Shahrohkimanesh v. Harborside, Inc., formerly known as Lineage Grow Company Ltd., domiciled in Canada, based in California, described as "a vertically-integrated cannabis company" whose shares are traded on the OTC  Pink market; Peter Bilodeau, Andrew Berman, Keith Li, Adam Szweras, and Matthew Hawkins at the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

Class Action Complaint alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act in Crystal Garrett-Evans v. Coty Inc., domiciled in Maryland, based in the Netherlands, described as "one of the world's largest beauty companies" whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Lambertus 'Bart' Becht, Camillo Pane, Pierre Laubies, Patrice de Talhouët, and Pierre-Andre Terisse at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion to Dismiss Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint styled as 'Tether and Bitfinex Crypto Asset Litigation' by iFinex Inc., a.k.a. Bitfinex; DigFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., BFXWW Inc., Tether International Limited, Tether Operations Limited, Tether Holdings Limited, all of the British Virgin Islands; Tether Limited, of Hong Kong; Ludovicus Jan van der Velde, a citizen of the Netherlands, and Giancarlo Devasini, a citizen of Italy, in David Leibowitz et al v. iFinex Inc. et al at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion to Dismiss Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint styled as 'Tether and Bitfinex Crypto Asset Litigation' by Philip G. Potter in David Leibowitz et al v. iFinex Inc. et al at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion to Dismiss Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint styled as 'Tether and Bitfinex Crypto Asset Litigation' by Reginald Fowler in David Leibowitz et al v. iFinex Inc. et al at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Motion to Dismiss Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint styled as 'Tether and Bitfinex Crypto Asset Litigation' by Bittrex Inc. and Poloniex LLC in David Leibowitz et al v. iFinex Inc. et al at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Ashmi Vig Arora v. HDFC Bank Limited, of India; Aditya Puri, Sashidhar Jagdishan, and Santosh Haldankar at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging the "unlawful and intentional manipulation of COMEX Gold Futures, COMEX Silver Futures, NYMEX Platinum Futures, and NYMEX Palladium Futures, and options on those futures contracts traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Exchange, Inc." in Robert Charles Class A, LP v. Bank of Nova Scotia, of Canada; Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., of New York; Scotia Holdings (US) Inc., of Delaware; The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company of New York, of New York, and Corey Flaum, of Florida, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Claudio Coutinho v. Braskem S.A., described as a Brazil-domiciled company that is "purportedly the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas" and whose securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Roberto Lopes Pontes Simões, Fernando Musa, and Pedro van Langendonck Teixeira de Freitas at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Steven Burnham v. Qutoutiao Inc., described as a Cayman Islands company based in China; Eric Silliang Tan, Lei Li, Jingbo Wang, Xiaolu Zhu, Shaoqing Jiang, Jianfei Dong, Oliver Yucheng Chen, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutssche Bank Securities Inc., China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Ltd., UBS Securities LLC, and KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint alleging securities fraud in Special Situations Fund III QP LP, Special Situations Cayman Fund LP, and Special Situations Private Equity Fund LP v. Chembio Diagnostics Inc., Richard L. Eberly, Gail S. Page, Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., and Dougherty & Company LLC at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint involving allegations of fraud, bribery, and corruption in Andrew J. Kornecki v. Airbus SE, described as a Netherlands-based "multinational aerospace corportion, operating through its Commercial Aircraft, Defense and Space, and Helicopters divisions"; Guillaume M.J.D. Faury, Tom Enders, Dominik Asam, and Harald Wilhelm at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Class Action Complaint alleging fraud in Ning Wang v. Cheetah Mobile Inc., described as Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based "mobile Internet company that offers mobile utility products"; Sheng Fu, Vincent Zhenyu Jiang, and Thomas Jintao Ren at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Complaint "for violations of the federal securities laws arising from a coercive exchange, or tender offer for $17.4 billion of the Republic's outstanding bonds, based on materially false and misleading statements" in Contrarian Emerging Markets LP, of Delaware; GMO Emerging Country Debt Fund, of Massachusetts; GMO Emerging Country Debt Investment Fund Plc, of Ireland, and GMO Emerging Country Debt (UCITS) Fund, of Ireland v. The Republic of Ecuador at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Amended Class Action Complaint alleging the sale of "unregistered tokens to investors" in Joel Deutsch, of Miami, Florida v. Status Research & Development GmbH, of Switzerland; Jarrad Hope, and Carl Bennetts at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint in Matthew Ellison v. Tufin Software Technologies Ltd., described as "an Israeli company that develops, markets, and sells software and cloud-based security solutions" whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Reuven Kitov, Jack Wakileh, Reuven Harrison, Ohad Finkelstein, Edouard Cukierman, Yair Shamir, Ronni Zehavi, Yuval Shachar, JPMorgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Jefferies LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., Piper Jaffray & Co. Inc., Piper Jaffray & Co., Stifel Nicolaus & Company Inc., William Blair & Company LLC, and DA Davidson & Co. at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint by "investors who collectively have lost millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme orchestrated and perpetrated by the principals of EquiAlt, a private real estate investment firm based in Florida" in Richard Gleinn, Phyllis Gleinn, Cary Toone, John Celli, Maria Celli, Eva Meier, Georgia Murphy, Steven J. Rubinstein, Tracey F. Rubinstein, as Trustees for the Rubinstein Family Living Trust Dated 6/25/2010; Bertram D. Greenberg, as Trustee for the Greenberg Family Trust; Bruce R. Hannen, and Geraldine Mary Hannen v. Paul Wassgren, DLA Piper LLP, and Fox Rothschild LLP at the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint in Quadre Investments LP v. Sky Solar Holdings Ltd., described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled, China-based company "in the renewable energy business" whose shares are listed on NASDAQ; Square Acquisition Co., of the Cayman Islands; Square Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Sino-Century HX Investments Limited, of the Cayman Islands; Jing Kang, described as a citizen of Canada; Bin Shi, described as a citizen of China; Kai Ding, described as a citizen of China; Japan NK Investment K.K., of Japan; IDG Accel China Capital LP, described as a Cayman Islands-domiciled limited partnership based in Hong Kong; IDG-Accel China Capital Investors LP, described as a Cayman Islands limited partnership based in Hong Kong; Jolmo Solar Capital Ltd., described as a British Virgin Islands company based in China; CES Holding Ltd., of Hong Kong; TCL Transportation Holdings Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Esteem Venture Investment Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Mamaya Investments Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Xanadu Investment Ltd., of Hong Kong; Development Holding Company Ltd., of the Cayman Islands; Abdulateef A. Al-Tammar, described as a citizen of Kuwait, and Bjoern Ludvig Ulfsson Nilsson, described as a citizen of Sweden, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.