Securities Class bodog online casino Filing Activity Fell for Third Straight Year as Volume of M&A Class Actions Declined

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Despite the decrease in volume, the average size of securities class bodog online casino filings increased substantially.

Menlo Park, Calif.—The volume of securities class bodog online casino lawsuit filings fell for the third straight year in 2022, according to a report released today by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class bodog online casino Clearinghouse.

The report, Securities Class bodog online casino Filings—2022 Year in Review, found that plaintiffs filed 208 securities class bodog online casino lawsuits in federal and state courts in 2022, down 5% from 218 filings in 2021 and well below the 332 filings in 2020. The 2022 decline was largely due to a continued decline in federal M&A filing activity. Conversely, core filings—those excluding M&A filings—increased by one in 2022 despite SPAC-related core federal filings falling by over a quarter in 2022 from the previous year, which is a reversal from a sixfold increase in such filings in 2021.

bodog online casino with Section 11 allegations reached numbers not seen since 2019, which was the height of post-Cyan activity.

“Following 2021, which saw a surge in SPAC-related bodog online casino, core federal SPAC bodog online casino were on pace for a record high in 2022 with 18 bodog online casino in the first half of the year, before slowing to only six bodog online casino in the final six months,” said Alexander “Sasha” Aganin, the report’s coauthor and a Cornerstone Research senior vice president. “This was somewhat unexpected, as shareholders traditionally bring more core bodog online casino when the stock market declines.”

Filings involving federal Section 11 claims and state claims under the bodog online casino Act of 1933 rose 43% in 2022. This marks the highest number of federal Section 11 filings since 2008 and the highest number of combined federal Section 11 and state 1933 Act filings since 2019. Further, for the first time in over a decade, more than a fifth of all core federal filings included Section 11 allegations.

Although there was only one more core filing in 2022 than in 2021, the aggregate size of bodog online casino rose steeply. Total Maximum Dollar Loss (MDL) and Disclosure Dollar Loss (DDL) rose by 138% and 100%, respectively. DDL was the highest on record, increasing to 3 billion, while MDL increased to ,433 billion, the highest amount in the last 20 years. These high MDL and DDL totals were due to an increase in the number and size of mega MDL and mega DDL bodog online casino.

In 2022, cryptocurrency-related bodog online casino greatly exceeded 2021 totals as regulatory oversight increased and the cryptocurrency market weakened. The 23 core bodog online casino related to cryptocurrency in 2022 were filed against a diverse pool of defendants.

“Crypto is the new frontier in bodog online casino fraud litigation,” observed Joseph A. Grundfest, the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business (emeritus) at Stanford Law School and a former Commissioner of the bodog online casino and Exchange Commission. “The FTX implosion—combined with the failure of many crypto intermediaries—and the collapse of some crypto asset prices, will keep plaintiffs’ lawyers busy for years. If SPAC litigation is history, crypto litigation is the future, at least for now.”

Securities Class bodog online casino Filings—2022 Year in Review

Key Trends
  • Although core federal bodog online casino related to SPACs fell by 27% from 2021, they were still four times greater than the 2019–2020 total.
  • Federal M&A class bodog online casino filings decreased by 61%, reaching the lowest point (seven filings) since tracking began in 2009.
  • With 23 bodog online casino, core federal bodog online casino related to cryptocurrency more than doubled in 2022 from the previous year, reaching a new record.
  • The total MDL from mega bodog online casino tripled compared to 2021.
  • In 2022, the total MDL and DDL of core federal bodog online casino in the Communications sector alone surpassed the total MDL and DDL of all core bodog online casino in 2021.
  • Continuing the trend of consistently high yearly totals since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19-related bodog online casino reached a new high in 2022 with 20 such bodog online casino.
  • The Ninth Circuit accounted for 60% of total core federal MDL but only 31% of all core federal bodog online casino.
  • In 2022, the likelihood of an S&P 500 company being sued increased for the first time since 2018 to 3.8%, from 2.2% in 2021.
About the Stanford Law School Securities Class bodog online casino Clearinghouse

The Securities Class bodog online casino Clearinghouse is an authoritative source of data and analysis on the financial and economic characteristics of federal securities fraud class bodog online casino litigation. The SCAC maintains a database of more than 6,300 securities class bodog online casino lawsuits filed since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The database also contains copies of complaints, briefs, filings, and other litigation-related materials filed in these cases.