In Re Puda Coal Securities Inc., et al. Litigation

  1. February 09, 2017

    Puda Coal, Ex-Chair Hit With $228M Stock Fraud Penalty

    A Chinese coal company and its former chairman must jointly pay investors $228 million for lying about its assets in U.S. securities filings, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday in putting magistratical findings into effect after the company and ex-executive failed to object.

  2. January 06, 2017

    Puda Coal, Ex-Chair Should Pay $228M For Fraud, Judge Says

    A Manhattan federal judge said Friday that Puda Coal and its former chairman Ming Zhao should be ordered to cough up $228 million to investor classes who claim they were defrauded into backing the Delaware-incorporated Chinese mining and coking concern.

  3. October 19, 2015

    Puda Coal Underwriters Pay $8.6M To Settle Investor Claims

    Puda Coal investors said Friday that a Macquarie Group unit and Brean Murray have agreed to pay a combined $8.6 million to resolve claims in New York federal court over their underwriting of a stock offering for Puda, which allegedly had secretly sold its key subsidiary to a private equity firm.

  4. June 18, 2014

    Puda Coal's Auditor Ducks Investor Suit Over Asset Transfer

    Auditor Moore Stephens PC won summary judgment on Tuesday in a class action alleging Puda Coal Inc. concealed a transaction stripping it of its assets, with a New York federal judge ruling that Puda investors had failed to show that a reasonable auditor would have been more stringent.

  5. June 01, 2012

    Directors, Bank Want Out Of Puda Coal Securities Fraud Suit

    Two independent directors of scandal-plagued Puda Coal Inc. and a merchant bank asked a New York federal judge on Friday to dismiss shareholders' putative class action against them over the allegedly secret sale of the company to a Chinese private equity firm.

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