Company: EUO
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form Type: S-3/A
Source: 0001193125-25-056731
Chunk: 323

Company: ProShares Trust II
Filing Date: 2025-03-18
Form: S-3/A
Chunk 323
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 as registered primary dealers of U.S. Treasury securities and assert claims of alleged collusion under the antitrust laws and manipulation under the Commodity Exchange Act. These actions were filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Northern District of Illinois and the District of the Virgin Islands. On September 24, 2015, certain of the plaintiffs filed a motion with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to have all of the actions transferred to Judge Paul G. Gardephe in the Southern District of New York for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. In December 2015, the cases were consolidated before Judge Gardephe in the Southern District of New York as IN RE TREASURY SECURITIES AUCTION ANTITRUST LITIGATION. On August 23, 2017, the court appointed interim co-lead counsel. Plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint on November 16, 2017, which alleges that CGMI and other primary dealer defendants colluded to fix Treasury auction bids by sharing competitively sensitive information ahead of the auctions, in violation of the antitrust laws. The consolidated complaint also alleges that CGMI and other primary dealer defendants colluded to boycott and prevent the emergence of an anonymous, all-to-all electronic trading platform in the Treasuries secondary market, and seeks damages, including treble damages where authorized by statute, and injunctive relief. On February 23, 2018, CGMI and the other defendants filed motions to dismiss the amended consolidated complaint. On March 31, 2021, the court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss

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all claims, without prejudice to plaintiffs filing an amended complaint. On May 14, 2021, plaintiffs filed an amended consolidated complaint. On June 14, 2021, defendants moved to dismiss the amended consolidated complaint. On March 31, 2022, the court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss and denied leave to amend. On April 28, 2022, plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The appeal is fully briefed as of December 14, 2022. Additional information relating to these actions is publicly available in court filings under the docket numbers 15-MD-2673 (S.D.N.Y.) (Gardephe, J.) and 22-943 (2d Cir.). On October 12, 2016, a putative class action captioned LOUISIANA MUNICIP