Stipulation and Order Re 118 Re: Class Certification
Boston Retirement System v. Uber Technologies, Inc. et al Doc. 119
1 Patrick D. Robbins (SBN 152288) Daniel H.R. Laguardia (SBN 314654) 2 Emily V. Griffen (SBN 209162) George B. Adams, III (SBN 321090) 3 SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP 4 535 Mission Street, 25th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105-2997 5 Telephone: 415.616.1100 Facsimile: 415.616.1199 6 Email: [email protected] [email protected] 7 [email protected] 8 [email protected] 9 Attorneys for Defendants Uber Technologies, Inc., Dara Khosrowshahi, Nelson Chai, Glen 10 Ceremony, Ronald Sugar, Ursula Burns, Garrett Camp, Matt Cohler, Ryan Graves, 11 Arianna Huffington, Travis Kalanick, Wan Ling Martello, H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, John 12 Thain, and David Trujillo 13 [Additional counsel listed on signature page] 14 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 15 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 16 SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 17 18 19 BOSTON RETIREMENT SYSTEM, Case No.: 3:19-cv-06361-RS 20 Plaintiff, JOINT STIPULATION AND ORDER RE: 21 v. CLASS CERTIFICATION MOTION 22 AND MEDIATION AS MODIFIED BY UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al., THE COURT 23 Defendants. 24 25 26 27 28
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 1 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS Dockets.Justia.com 1 Lead Plaintiff Boston Retirement System (“Lead Plaintiff”), Defendants Uber 2 Technologies, Inc. (“Uber”), Dara Khosrowshahi, Nelson Chai, Glen Ceremony, Ronald Sugar, 3 Ursula Burns, Garrett Camp, Matt Cohler, Ryan Graves, Arianna Huffington, Travis Kalanick, Wan 4 Ling Martello, H.E. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, John Thain, and David Trujillo (the “Uber Defendants”), 5 and Defendants Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, 6 Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Allen & 7 Company LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Deutsche Bank 8 Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., Mizuho 9 Securities USA LLC, Needham & Company, LLC, Loop Capital Markets LLC, Siebert Cisneros 10 Shank & Co., L.L.C., Academy Securities, Inc., BTIG, LLC, Canaccord Genuity LLC, CastleOak 11 Securities, L.P., Cowen and Company, LLC, Evercore Group L.L.C., JMP Securities LLC, 12 Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., Mischler Financial Group, Inc., Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Raymond 13 James & Associates, Inc., William Blair & Company, L.L.C., The Williams Capital Group, L.P., 14 and TPG Capital BD, LLC (the “Underwriter Defendants” and, together with the Uber Defendants, 15 “Defendants”) (Plaintiff and Defendants together referred to as the “Parties”), hereby stipulate and 16 agree as follows: 17 WHEREAS, Lead Plaintiff filed a motion for class certification on September 25, 18 2020 (Dkt. No. 104) (the “Class Certification Motion”); 19 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Parties’ Joint Case Management Statement filed on
20 August 20, 2020 (Dkt. No. 97) and the Court’s August 27, 2020 Case Management Scheduling 21 Order (Dkt. No. 100), the Defendants’ deadline to file their opposition to the Class Certification 22 Motion is December 18, 2020, Lead Plaintiff’s deadline to file its reply is February 5, 2021, and the 23 hearing on the Class Certification Motion is set for February 25, 2021; 24 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Court’s August 27, 2020 Case Management Scheduling 25 Order (Dkt. No. 100), the Parties’ deadline to engage in private mediation discussions is currently 26 January 29, 2021; 27 28
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 1 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS 1 WHEREAS, the Parties have commenced discovery related to both class certification 2 and the merits of the action; 3 WHEREAS, the Parties have agreed to conduct a private mediation to attempt to 4 resolve the claims asserted in this action, and plan to set a date for the mediation in February or 5 early March 2021, subject to mediator availability and the exchange of additional information to 6 facilitate the mediation; and 7 WHEREAS, the Parties have further agreed, in the interests of efficiency and 8 economy, to delay briefing and hearing on the Class Certification Motion, as well as further class 9 certification and merits discovery, while engaging in mediation discussions. 10 IT IS THEREFORE STIPULATED AND AGREED that, subject to the Court’s 11 approval:
12 1. The Parties shall engage in a mediation session by the end of March 2021, and the 13 current deadline to engage in private mediation is extended to March 31, 2021.
14 2. The February 25, 2021 hearing on the Class Certification Motion is continued to 15 May 20, 2021 at 1:30 pm. 16 3. The Parties shall report to the Court no later than April 1, 2021 as to the status of the 17 mediation and if the action is not resolved to submit a revised Joint Case 18 Management Statement. 19
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21 IT IS SO STIPULATED. 22 Dated: December 15, 2020 LABATON SUCHAROW LLP 23 Jonathan Gardner (admitted pro hac vice) Alfred L. Fatale III (admitted pro hac vice) 24 Joseph N. Cotilletta (admitted pro hac vice) Marco A. Duenas (admitted pro hac vice) 25 140 Broadway 26 New York, New York 10005 Telephone: (212) 907-0700 27 Facsimile: (212) 818-0477 Email: [email protected] 28
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 2 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS [email protected] 1 [email protected] 2 [email protected]
3 /s/ Alfred L. Fatale III Alfred L. Fatale III 4 5 Lead Counsel for Lead Plaintiff Boston Retirement System 6 LEVI & KORSINSKY, LLP 7 Gregory M. Nespole (admitted pro hac vice) 55 Broadway, 10th Floor 8 New York, New York 10006 Telephone: (212) 363-7500 9 Facsimile: (212) 363-7171 Email: [email protected] 10 Rosanne L. Mah (SBN 242628) 11 388 Market Street, Suite 1300 San Francisco, California 94111 12 Telephone: (415) 373-1671 Facsimile: (415) 484-1294 13 Email: [email protected]
14 Liaison Counsel for Lead Plaintiff Boston Retirement System 15 16 Dated: December 15, 2020 SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP 17 Patrick D. Robbins Daniel H.R. Laguardia 18 Emily V. Griffen George B. Adams, III 19
20 /s/ Daniel H.R. Laguardia Daniel H.R. Laguardia 21 Attorneys for Defendants Uber Technologies, 22 Inc., Dara Khosrowshahi, Nelson Chai, Glen Ceremony, Ronald Sugar, Ursula Burns, Garrett 23 Camp, Matt Cohler, Ryan Graves, Arianna 24 Huffington, Travis Kalanick, Wan Ling Martello, John Thain, and David Trujillo 25
26 Dated: December 15, 2020 WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP Todd G. Cosenza (admitted pro hac vice) 27 787 Seventh Avenue 28 New York, NY 10019-6099
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 3 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS Telephone: (212) 728-8677 1 Facsimile: (212) 728-9677 2 Email: [email protected] 3 /s/ Todd G. Cosenza 4 Todd G. Cosenza 5 WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP 6 Simona Agnolucci (SBN 246943) One Front Street 7 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: (415) 858-7447 8 Facsimile: (415) 858-7599 9 Email: [email protected]
10 WILLKIE FARR & GALLAGHER LLP Joseph G. Davis (SBN 157764) 11 1875 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006-1238 12 Telephone: (202) 303.1131 13 Facsimile: (202) 303-2131 Email: [email protected] 14 Attorneys for Defendants Morgan Stanley & Co. 15 LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Barclays 16 Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 17 Allen & Company LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., 18 Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., SMBC Nikko Securities America, 19 Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Needham & Company, LLC, Loop Capital Markets LLC, 20 Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C., Academy 21 Securities, Inc., BTIG, LLC, Canaccord Genuity LLC, CastleOak Securities, L.P., Cowen and 22 Company, LLC, Evercore Group L.L.C., JMP Securities LLC, Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., 23 Mischler Financial Group, Inc., Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Raymond James & Associates, Inc., 24 William Blair & Company, L.L.C., The Williams 25 Capital Group, L.P., and TPG Capital BD, LLC 26 27 28
STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 4 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS 1 PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, IT IS SO ORDERED. 2
3 DATED: ______December 16, 2020 ______United States District Judge 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER RE: CLASS CERTIFICATION AND MEDIATION 5 CASE NUMBER: 3:19-CV-06361-RS