Panel: Shareholders Properly Pleaded Scienter In Securities Class Action

Mealey's (December 7, 2017, 12:11 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A federal district court erred in dismissing a securities class action lawsuit against a China-based online and mobile commerce company and certain of its senior officers because shareholders had properly pleaded that the defendants acted with the requisite scienter by concealing that the company was subject to administrative proceedings by China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) in the months leading up to its initial public offering (IPO), a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Dec. 5 in reversing and remanding (Christine Asia Co. Ltd., et al. v. Jack Yun Ma, et al., No. 16-2519, 2nd Cir.)....