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On Friday, plaintiffs’ lawyers at Pomerantz Haudek Grossman & Gross filed the latest class action related to banks’ alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, an interest-rate benchmark that affects trillions of dollars of securities. The new complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan on behalf of Berkshire Bank, asserts claims for all New York financial institutions that “originated, purchased outright or purchased a participation in” loans paying interest rates pegged to Libor.

Is that class different from all investors who purchased securities with Libor-pegged interest rates? Not according to Michael Hausfeld, whose eponymous firm is interim co-lead counsel in a Libor class action already under way before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan. Back in November, after a hard-fought lead counsel contest, Buchwald appointed Hausfeld and Susman Godfrey to head the Libor multidistrict litigation for over-the-counter investors. Kirby McInerney and Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson were appointed lead counsel in a separate class action for derivatives investors who traded on exchanges regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

[REUTERS ON THE CASE]

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