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1. Mutual Funds Should Consider Shareholder Litigation

A recent Law360 guest article published by two Ropes & Gray LLP attorneys that challenges a forthcoming law review article attempts to dissuade mutual funds from engaging in shareholder litigation. The challenge by Amy Roy and Robert Skinner purports to address the “practical realities of mutual funds acting as plaintiffs” while ignoring the practical realities of securities litigation. Indeed, under the right circumstances, it often makes sense for mutual funds to participate in securities litigation. Click here to read the full article (subscription may be needed).

2. Why Queensland Supreme Court Decision on Litigation Funding Is So Significant

A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Queensland has confirmed the legality of litigation funding for class actions in Queensland and brings Queensland in line with the class actions regimes in other Australian jurisdictions. The case of Murphy Operator & Ors v Gladstone Ports Corporation & Anor (No 4) [2019] QSC 228 saw a class action bought by a group of plaintiffs who ran commercial fishing operations and claimed to have suffered loss and damage as a result of dredging operations by the defendant, GPC, who managed the Port of Gladstone. In particular, the class action claimed that the dredged soil was not stored properly and the acidity of the exposed soil caused seafood species in waters proximate to the Gladstone Harbour to become depleted. The class action initially had some difficulties securing funding, but sometime after filing the proceeding, secured the assistance of litigation funder LCM. Click here to read the full article.

3. Southern District of New York Dismisses Federal Securities Claims Against Asset Management Company for Failure to Adequately Allege Reliance or Causation

On September 30, 2019, Judge Loretta A. Preska of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed federal securities claims brought against a Japanese investment advisor and asset manager, its parent, and its former CEO. Plaintiffs, former senior executives of the Company or one of its subsidiaries, alleged that defendants engaged in a scheme to devalue plaintiffs’ stock acquisition rights (“SARs”) and to force them to sell their SARs back to the Company at the artificially deflated price, in violation of section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder. The Court dismissed the Exchange Act claims finding that most plaintiffs failed to sufficiently allege a sale and that all plaintiffs failed to allege reliance or loss causation. Click here to read the full article.

4. Objector Drops Opposition To $300M Fee Award In Forex Case

Investors who have inked $2.3 billion in settlements with big banks over the alleged rigging of foreign exchange markets told a New York federal court Wednesday that the lone objector to a $300 million attorney’s fee award has agreed to drop his opposition. Click here to read the full article (subscription may be needed).

5. Conn. Fits Teva Stock-Drop Suit Better Than Pa., Judge Says

A proposed investor class action against Teva Pharmaceuticals will be moved from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, where it will join other investor suits over the drugmaker’s alleged price-fixing after a Philadelphia federal judge said the suit was not sufficiently tied to antitrust multidistrict litigation in his district. Click here to read the full article (subscription may be needed).

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