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ISS Discusses the Largest Class Action Settlements of 2022

By Jeff Lubitz and Jarett Sena January 10, 2023 by Jeff Lubitz
In a remarkable year of class action activity, investors across the globe agreed to settlements totaling over $7.4 billion[1] in 2022, a greater than 75% increase from 2021. (A substantive year in review for the U.S. market will be
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ISS Discusses Dell’s $1 Billion Top-20 Settlement of Shareholder Lawsuit

By Jeff Lubitz and Jarett Sena December 9, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz
On November 16, 2022, Dell Technologies Inc. reached a $1 billion settlement with shareholders, according to a recently filed 8-K filed with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. The announced agreement looks to resolve investors’ allegations that they were short-changed
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ISS Discusses Proposed $810 Million Settlement in Twitter Shareholder Class Action

By Jeff Lubitz September 13, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz

What a long, strange trip it’s been for Twitter shareholders since the company’s November 7, 2013 Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

Aside from the current litigation dominating today’s headlines between Twitter and Elon Musk – which

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ISS Discusses Five Non-U.S. Class Actions Investors Should Pay Attention To

By Jeff Lubitz September 1, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz

As institutional investors know, a vast majority of shareholder related class actions take place in the United States. This is accurate in terms of both newly filed cases and settlements.

However, non-North American shareholder litigation is significantly important to investors …

ISS Discusses Class-Action Settlements Requiring Investor Action

By Jeff Lubitz August 2, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz
Investors have a significant number of opportunities to participate in class actions during the upcoming 3-month period. Specifically, 39 North American settlements valued at $1.14 billion have a claim deadline date from August 1, 2022 – October 31, 2022.

The

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ISS Discusses Securities Class-Action Settlements in First Half of 2022

By Jeff Lubitz July 18, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz

The value of U.S. shareholder class action settlements in the first half of 2022 totaled $2.32 billion, the exact amount as the same period in 2021. However, the quantity of settlements in the first six months of the year increased

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ISS Discusses Shareholder Class Actions Related to Covid-19

By Jeff Lubitz February 21, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz
As the world completes a full two years of navigating the perils of the Coronavirus pandemic, U.S. shareholders continue to file class action complaints alleging companies with various acts of fraud related to COVID-19.

As previously reported by ISS Securities

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ISS Discusses $4 Billion in Settlements Expected to Kick-Off 2022

By Jeff Lubitz January 13, 2022 by Jeff Lubitz

As 2021 came to a close, the final tally of new U.S. shareholder class action complaints declined for the second straight year (this followed a record number of new cases from 2017 – 2019). Industry experts point to three factors

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ISS Discusses Shareholder Class Action Settlements in 2021

By Jeff Lubitz December 22, 2021 by Jeff Lubitz

As the world will soon reflect on two full years of living through the COVID pandemic, the pace of shareholder-related class action settlements continue to bring significant recoveries back to harmed investors.

In fact, according to ISS Securities Class Action

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ISS Discusses Landmark Ruling in China’s First Shareholder Class Action

By Jeff Lubitz November 30, 2021 by Jeff Lubitz

The Intermediate People’s Court of Guangzhou delivered a groundbreaking victory to investors in China’s first-ever shareholder class action.

The China Securities Investor Service Centre (CSISC), a government-affiliated body, represented investors as it brought the action against Kangmei Pharmaceutical Co. (In

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ISS Discusses Why the Enron Scandal Still Matters to Investors After 20 Years

By Jeff Lubitz October 28, 2021 by Jeff Lubitz

In what is still regarded as the largest U.S. corporate fraud in history, the Enron scandal “celebrates” its 20th anniversary this month.

It was October 16, 2001 when Enron announced a $638 million third quarter loss, confirming a handful of …

ISS Discusses Increase in Class Action Settlements for First Half of 2021

By Jeff Lubitz July 23, 2021 by Jeff Lubitz

As the U.S. and countries around the globe attempt to control the Coronavirus pandemic, investors continue to experience meaningful recoveries from securities-related class action settlements.

In the first half of 2021 (January 1 – June 30), U.S. class action settlements …

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