Company: EUO
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-065648
Chunk: 415

Company: ProShares Trust II
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: 424B3
Chunk 415
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-2564-17 be heard together before the High Court of Eastern Denmark. On June 29, 2018, the Firm filed its defense to the matter now styled Case number B-2564-17. On February 4, 2019, the Firm filed its defense to the matter now styled Case number B-803-18. Beginning in February of 2016, the Firm was named as a defendant in multiple purported antitrust class actions now consolidated into a single proceeding in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) styled In Re: Interest Rate Swaps Antitrust Litigation. Plaintiffs allege, inter alia, that the Firm, together with a number of other financial institution defendants, violated U.S. and New York state antitrust laws from 2008 through December of 2016 in connection with their alleged efforts to prevent the development of electronic exchange based platforms for interest rates swaps trading. Complaints were filed both on behalf of a purported class of investors who purchased interest rates swaps from defendants, as well as on behalf of two swap execution facilities that allegedly were thwarted by the defendants in their efforts to develop such platforms. The consolidated complaints seek, among other relief, certification of the investor class of plaintiffs and treble damages. On July 28, 2017, the court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaints. A decision on plaintiffs’ motion for class certification is pending. The following are extracts from MS’s filings on Form 10-Q throughout 2021, which relate to MSIplc: • 3Q 2022 10-Q • Legal Proceedings • European Matters The Firm is engaging with the UK Competition and Markets Authority in connection with its investigation of suspected anti-competitive arrangements in the financial services sector, specifically regarding the Firm’s activities concerning certain liquid fixed income products between 2009 and 2012. MSIplc does not file its own periodic reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. However, MSIplc files periodic financial statements including with the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”), which include current descriptions of litigations, proceedings, and investigations which are considered material to MSIplc. The following is an extract from MSIplc’s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 (the “Group” includes MSIplc and its subsidiaries): Litigation matters In addition to the matters described below, in the normal course of business, the Group has