Oppenheimer Rochester Funds Group Securities Litigation

Berger Montague served as co-lead counsel and obtained an $89.5 million settlement for investors in six tax-exempt bond mutual funds managed by OppenheimerFunds, Inc. and distributed by OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc. The investors suffered the losses during the financial crisis of 2008. The case was litigated in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and captioned In re Oppenheimer Rochester Funds Group Securities Litigation, No. 09-md-02063-JLK-KMT (D. Colo.).

Six class actions were consolidated in June 2009 and alleged that OppenheimerFunds, Inc., OppenheimerFunds Distributor, Inc., the Funds, and certain of their trustees and officers violated the federal securities laws, including the Securities Act of 1933 that prohibits materially false and misleading statements in registration statements and prospectuses of the kind used to sell shares in the Funds. The plaintiffs alleged that the Funds’ assets were managed in a way that was inconsistent with the Funds’ stated investment objectives and with the Funds’ stated limits on illiquid securities, inverse floaters, and other assets. The lawsuit further alleged that when risks embedded in the Funds materialized, the value of the Funds’ shares declined significantly.

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