Company: EUO
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: S-3/A
Source: 0001193125-25-056733
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Company: ProShares Trust II
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: S-3/A
Chunk 260
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 in September 2018 and July 2019, certain defendants’ motions, including UBS AG’s, were granted. The SEF plaintiff filed an amended complaint in January 2020 and, in April 2020, the remaining defendants, including UBS Securities LLC, moved to dismiss the amended complaint. Following the filing of the first class complaint UBS was served with a subpoena from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) seeking documents and information regarding the UBS’s swap trading and Futures Commission Merchant businesses going back to 2008. Stock Lending matters. In 2017, a purported class action antitrust complaint was filed in the Southern District of New York against six stock lending prime broker defendants, including the Company, its Parent and affiliates, as well as EquiLend, a trading platform and purveyor of posttrade services. The named plaintiffs purport to represent a class of all persons or entities that entered into stock loan transactions in the United States with one

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of the prime broker defendants since January 7, 2009. The plaintiffs allege that the defendants conspired to block the evolution of the stock lending market from an OTC environment, in which stock loans are intermediated by prime brokers, to an electronic market, in which borrowers and lenders can transact directly with one another. Plaintiffs allege violations of Section 1 of the Sherman Act and New York State law and seek unspecified treble damages, fees and costs. In September 2018, the court overseeing the litigation denied defendants’ motions to dismiss. In January 2018 and November 2018, respectively, QS Holdco and SL-x, entities associated with defunct stock lending platforms, each filed an action in the Southern District of New York raising claims similar to the class plaintiffs’ claims and also seeking treble damages and other relief. Defendants have moved to dismiss the QS Holdco and SL-x complaints. In May 2019, different SL-x affiliates filed an additional complaint, raising similar allegations. Defendants’ motion to dismiss the prior SL-x complaint applies to the new complaint as well. In August 2019, the court dismissed the QS Holdco complaint, and in January 2020, the court denied QS Holdco’s motion to alter or amend the judgment. In October 2021, the court dismissed the SL-x complaints. The SL-x affiliates have appealed. Government sponsored entities (“GSE”) bonds Starting in February 2019, class action complaints were filed in the US District