IOWA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT v. MERRILL LYNCH

17 Civ. 6221 (KPF).

340 F.Supp.3d 285 (2018)

IOWA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM; Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association; Orange County Employees Retirement System; Sonoma County Employees' Retirement Association; and Torus Capital, LLC, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INC.; Merrill Lynch L.P. Holdings, Inc.; Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp.; Credit Suisse AG; Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC; Credit Suisse First Boston Next Fund, Inc.; Credit Suisse Prime Securities Services (USA) LLC; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC; Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, L.P.; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; J.P. Morgan Prime, Inc.; J.P. Morgan Strategic Securities Lending Corp.; J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC; Prime Dealer Services Corp.; Strategic Investments I, Inc.; UBS AG; UBS Americas Inc., UBS Securities LLC; UBS Financial Services Inc.; EquiLend LLC; EquiLend Europe Limited; and EquiLend Holdings LLC, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Signed September 27, 2018.

Editors Note
Applicable Law: 15 U.S.C. § 2
Cause: 15 U.S.C. § 2 Antitrust Litigation
Nature of Suit: 410 Anti - Trust
Source: PACER


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Goldsmith Reiser , David A. Young , Emmy L. Levens , Kit A. Pierson , Richard A. Koffman , Robert White Cobbs , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC, Christopher James Bateman , Michael Benjamin Eisenkraft , Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Maaren Alia Shah , Maxwell Paden Deabler-Meadows , Thomas Popejoy, Jeremy Daniel Andersen , Sascha Nicholas Rand , Steig Olson , Thomas Lepri , Daniel Lawrence Brockett , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Peter George Safirstein , Safirstein Metcalf LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Adam Selim Hakki , Richard Franklin Schwed , Shearman & Sterling LLP, David George Januszewski , Elai E. Katz , Herbert Scott Washer , Jason Michael Hall , Margaret Ann Barone , Sheila Chithran Ramesh , Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, Andrew Hunter Reynard , Richard C. Pepperman, II , Sullivan and Cromwell, LLP, Staci Lynn Yablon , Winston & Strawn LLP, Damaris Hernandez , Daniel Slifkin , Michael A. Paskin , Lauren Michelle Rosenberg , Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Alan J. Brudner , Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP, Sarah Katherine Weber , Paul Weiss , Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Jr. , Cleary Gottlieb, New York, NY, Ryan Ashby Shores , Shearman & Sterling LLP, Henry Liu , John S. Playforth , Kuntal Cholera , Robert D. Wick , Covington & Burling, LLP, Alexis L. Collins , David I. Gelfand , Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Washington, DC, Robert Y. Sperling , Winston & Strawn LLP, David Charles Bohan , Peter Ginewicz Wilson , Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

In a 398-paragraph complaint, Plaintiffs detail a wide-ranging conspiracy to prevent the antiquated stock loan market from evolving into a transparent, direct, all-to-all electronic exchange. This market is critical to the short selling of stocks, a not-uncommon investment tool....

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