Company: EUO
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: 424B3
Source: 0001193125-25-065644
Chunk: 219

Company: ProShares Trust II
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: 424B3
Chunk 219
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 Court of Canada action, the plaintiffs reached settlements with a small number of banks in 2020 (not including Barclays Capital Canada Inc.), but the plaintiffs have not commenced the class certification process and the action remains at an early stage. In one of the actions filed in the SDNY, the court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ complaint, which the plaintiffs have appealed. The plaintiffs have voluntarily dismissed the other SDNY action. Variable Rate Demand Obligations civil actions Civil actions have been filed against Barclays Bank PLC, the Company and other financial institutions alleging the defendants conspired or colluded to artificially inflate interest rates set for Variable Rate Demand Obligations (VRDOs). VRDOs are municipal bonds with interest rates that reset on a periodic basis, most commonly weekly. Two actions in state court have been filed by private plaintiffs on behalf of the states of Illinois and California. Three putative class action complaints have been consolidated in the SDNY. In the consolidated SDNY class action, certain of the plaintiff’s claims were dismissed in November 2020 and defendants’ motion for partial dismissal of the amended consolidated complaint was granted in part and denied in part in June 2022. In the California action, the plaintiffs’ claims were dismissed in June 2021. The plaintiffs have appealed the dismissal. Odd-lot corporate bonds antitrust class action In 2020, the Company, together with other financial institutions, were named as defendants in a putative class action. The complaint alleges a conspiracy to boycott developing electronic trading platforms for odd-lots and price-fixing. The plaintiffs demand unspecified money damages. The defendants’ motion to dismiss was granted in 2021 and the plaintiffs have appealed the dismissal. The district court subsequently informed the parties of a potential conflict and the case was reassigned to a new district court judge. The plaintiffs have filed a motion seeking a ruling that would vacate the dismissal and allow the plaintiffs to file an amended complaint if the appeals court remands the case for further proceedings. Interest rate swap and credit default swap US civil actions Barclays PLC, Barclays Bank PLC and the Company, together with other financial institutions that act as market makers for interest rate swaps (IRS) are named as defendants in several antitrust class actions which were consolidated in the SDNY in 2016. The complaints allege the defendants conspired to prevent the development of exchanges for IRS and demand unspecified money damages. In 2018, trueEX LLC filed an antitrust class action in the SDNY against a number of financial institutions including Barclays PLC