In In re London Silver Fixing, Ltd. Antitrust Litigation, Nos. 14-MD-02573, 14-MC-02573 (S.D.N.Y.), class plaintiffs have submitted briefing in support of a proposed settlement (the “Settlement”) with various Deutsche Bank-related defendants (“Deutsche Bank”). As reported in previous posts, this litigation concerns allegations that Deutsche Bank and other financial institutions participated in manipulations of “the fix”,... Read more »
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Beyond Finance: Manipulation of the Marketplace of Ideas
The Manipulation Monitor primarily covers developments in antitrust and other competition law litigation relating to the financial services industry. In today’s blog post, however, we are taking a short break from covering the financial services industry to show that allegations of market manipulation in violation of antitrust law extends not just to the marketplace for... Read more »
Stock Loan Lowdown: A Duo of Discovery Disputes
It’s been a while since posted an update on the Iowa Public stock loan dispute. But, truth be told discovery has been rolling right along, and there has not been overmuch to discuss. I’m going to use this post to do a quick recap on some of the more interesting discovery disputes that have arisen... Read more »
Mexican Government Bond Litigation Update: Jurisdictional Issues Result in Dismissal
We write to update you on a recent decision granting motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint (“SAC”) for lack of personal jurisdiction and improper venue issued by Judge Oetken on November 30, 2020 in the consolidated actions in the Southern District of New York known as In re Mexican Government Bonds... Read more »
Litigating LIBOR Losses: London Edition
Well, dear readers, this post is going to be a bit outside the usual realm for the Manipulation Monitor. But, in light of my colleague John Whelan’s recent post on the class action settlement in In Re: Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, 11-MD-02262 (“In re Libor“), I thought it might be fun to provide a... Read more »
Class Cert Denied in In Re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litigation
In In re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litigation (Direct Purchaser Plaintiffs), No. 14-cv-3116-PAE (S.D.N.Y.), United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied class certification based on the failure to plaintiffs’ expert to establish the predominance of common issues among the proposed class members regarding antitrust injury. Plaintiffs, described in the opinion as “First Level Purchasers” or... Read more »
LIBOR Class Action: Settlement Update
We write to update you on recent updates regarding settlement in In Re: Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, 11-MD-02262 (“In re Libor“), the Multi-District Litigation in the Southern District of New York relating to relating to manipulation of LIBOR or the London Interbank Offered Rate for the U.S. dollar. Before going into the latest updates... Read more »
Plaintiffs in Mexican Government Bond Antitrust Case Settle With Two Defendant Groups; Get Defendants’ Evidence and Cooperation
In our October 22, 2019, post, we alerted you to a letter to the court by the Plaintiffs in consolidated actions, now known as In re Mexican Government Bonds Antitrust Litigation, 18-cv-02830 (In re MGB), requesting 45 days to file an amended complaint. Previously, Plaintiffs’ Consolidated Amended Complaint, which alleged a conspiracy among several banks... Read more »
Analysis of the Second Circuit’s Reversal of the Dismissal of Complaints in In re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litigation
On August 27, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Judge Katherine B. Forrest’s dismissal of three consolidated complaints appearing in In re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litigation, 13 MD 2481. Eastman Kodak Co. v. Henry Bath LLC, 936 F.3d 86 (2d Cir. 2019), vacating and remanding In re Aluminum Warehousing... Read more »
Plaintiffs in Mexican Bond Market Fixing Case Seek Time To Amend, Citing New Evidence
In our October 4, 2019, post we noted several news reports on the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to inflate the price of Mexican government bonds. The original allegations of that suit are detailed in our post here. Specifically, Judge Oetken’s September 30, 2019, decision (found here) found that Plaintiffs’ complaint failed... Read more »