June 26, 2015
Former MF Global Holdings Inc. Chairman Jon Corzine has urged a New York federal judge to uphold his late request to depose attorneys at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and said the agency's resistance appears to confirm his suspicions that its evidence against him is thin.
June 24, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday slammed a late demand by former MF Global Holdings Inc. CEO Jon Corzine to depose agency attorneys bringing suit against him, and accused his counsel of using the bid to ferret out confidential CFTC work product.
April 17, 2015
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP will pay $65 million to settle class action litigation with MF Global Holdings Ltd. customers who accused PwC of negligently failing to identify the bankrupt brokerage's alleged scheme to deceive investors about its financial stability, according to filings in New York federal court Friday.
March 17, 2015
A Commerzbank AG subsidiary that helped underwrite an MF Global Holdings Ltd. stock offering in 2011 has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a class action filed by the defunct brokerage firm's investors, according to a Tuesday filing in New York federal court.
February 09, 2015
A New York federal judge on Monday refused to force MF Global Holdings Ltd.'s liquidating trustee to produce documents tied to an audit report, ruling in class-action investor litigation over MF Global's collapse that the documents were never intended to be made public.
December 11, 2014
Seven investment banks that underwrote MF Global Holdings Ltd. stock and debt offerings have reached a $74 million settlement in class-action investor litigation alleging they fudged the firm's financial health ahead of its spectacular fall into bankruptcy, according to a Thursday court filing.
September 16, 2014
MF Global investors asked a New York federal court Monday to appoint a firm recently started by four partners from Labaton Sucharow LLP as one of two lead firms for the plaintiffs and to grant class certification in the litigation, which stems from a collapse that wiped out $1.6 billion worth of customer equity.
August 13, 2014
A New York federal judge on Wednesday approved the replacement of Labaton Sucharow LLP with a new firm formed by four former Labaton partners as co-lead counsel in a proposed class action alleging officers of the bankrupt broker-dealer MF Global Holdings Ltd. lied to investors about the company's financial stability.
April 16, 2014
An MF Global Inc. customer seeking at least $100 million in damages over the brokerage firm's collapse may pursue some claims against Jon Corzine and five other top executives, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday.
March 24, 2014
A New York federal judge on Monday refused to toss a lawsuit brought against ex-MF Global Holdings Ltd. CEO Jon Corzine and two other former executives for allegedly sinking the company through a dodgy trading strategy, saying the complaint shows the defendants acted in bad faith.