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IN RE EQT CORPORATION SECURITIES LITIGATION

  1. November 05, 2025

    EQT Gets Final OK For $168M Merger Benefits Settlement

    A federal court gave its final approval Tuesday to a $167.5 million settlement between EQT Corp. and its shareholders, closing out a class action that claimed the company overstated the operational benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy in 2017.

  2. July 22, 2025

    EQT Investors' $167.5M Deal To End Merger Suit Gets 1st OK

    Investors in energy company EQT Corp. have gotten an initial green light for their $167.5 million settlement to end claims the company overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy, drawing what's purported to be the largest shareholder settlement in the Western District of Pennsylvania closer to a close.

  3. June 26, 2025

    EQT Investors Ink $167.5M Deal In Rice Energy Merger Suit

    EQT Corp. has agreed to pay $167.5 million to investors who claimed the company overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy, according to a motion filed Thursday seeking preliminary approval of what the investors called the largest-ever stockholder suit deal lodged in Western Pennsylvania federal court. 

  4. April 05, 2021

    EQT Investors Seek Class Cert. In Suit Over $6.7B Merger

    A group of investors have asked a Pennsylvania federal court to certify their class in a suit over the $6.7 billion merger between EQT Corp. and Rice Energy, which they say lost them millions as a result of misrepresentations.

  5. December 02, 2020

    EQT Must Face Investor Suit Over $6.7B Merger, Judge Says

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday declined to throw out a proposed class action over EQT Corp.'s merger with Rice Energy, ruling that investors adequately alleged that EQT's executives made statements about the benefits of the merger that "were simply not true at the time they were made."

  6. January 22, 2020

    EQT Wants Out Of Stock-Drop Suit Over Rice Energy Merger

    EQT Corp. asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday to toss a proposed class action over its merger with Rice Energy, saying the investors behind the suit are trying to "convert their disappointment" with the company's post-merger performance into securities fraud.

  7. September 19, 2019

    Bernstein Litowitz, Cohen Milstein To Lead EQT Stock Suit

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC will lead a proposed stockholder class action against EQT Corp. over the company's alleged misrepresentations to investors about the benefits of its 2017 merger with Rice Energy, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge said Thursday.

  8. August 27, 2019

    Bernstein, Robbins, Others Vie For Lead In EQT Deal Suit

    Seven firms including Bernstein Litowitz, Robbins Geller and Pomerantz petitioned a Pennsylvania federal court Monday seeking to take the lead of a proposed investor class action against EQT Corp. over its alleged exaggeration of the benefits from its merger with Rice Energy.

  9. June 26, 2019

    EQT Overstated Benefits Of Rice Energy Buy, Investors Say

    A Massachusetts retirement fund said EQT Corp. executives overstated the benefits of the gas producer's $6.7 billion acquisition of Rice Energy, leading to increased costs and a steep stock drop, according to a proposed shareholder class action filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court.