BMBL.US
id: 682
Bumble (BMBL) Investors $18M Settlement
S.D. New York
Court22-CV-00624
Case number09/10/2021
Class period Start01/24/2022
Class period End09/11/2023
Claim deadlineBumble (BMBL) settled $18 million with Investors.
On September 7, 2021, Bumble filed with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-1 for the Company's SPO. On September 9, 2021, the SEC declared the Registration Statement effective, and on or about September 13, 2021, Bumble filed the final Prospectus for the SPO.
The Complaint alleges that the SPO’s registration statement contained inaccurate statements of material fact because they failed to disclose that:
- Bumble’s paying user growth trends had abruptly reversed in 3Q21 and Bumble had actually lost tens of thousands of paying users during the quarter;
- paying users had been more reluctant to sign up for the Bumble app during 3Q21 because of the recent price hike for paid services on the app;
- a material number of paying users were leaving the Badoo app and/or could not make payments through the Badoo app due, in substantial part, to problems arising from Bumble’s transition of its payment platform; and
- as a result, Bumble’s business metrics and financial prospects were not as strong as the registration statement had represented.
Case Status
Disbursement
Alleged Offence
Misleading Statements,
Financial Misrepresentation,
Failure to Disclose,
Omissions
Suspected Party
Directors,
Management
Security Type
Stocks
Trade Direction
Long
Payout per Share
0.94
Filing date
01/24/2022
Plaintiffs
Louisiana Sheriffs’ Pension & Relief Fund, UA Local 13 Pension Fund
Attorneys
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP (New York, NY), Klausner, Kaufman, Jensen & Levinson (Plantation, FL)
Defendants
Whitney Wolfe Herd, Anuradha Subramanian, Ann Mather, Christine L. Anderson, R. Lynn Atchison, Sachin J. Bavishi, Matthew S. Bromberg, Amy M. Griffin, Jonathan C. Korngold, Jennifer B. Morgan, Elisa A. Steele, Pamela A. Thomas-Graham
Judge
Hon. Vernon S. Broderick
Administrator
JND Legal Administration
Court hearing date
08/04/2023
Exclusion deadline
07/12/2023
Objection deadline
07/12/2023
Hearing deadline
07/12/2023
Attorney fee
$4,500,000
Class wide damages
$222,319,000
Trades matching type
FIFO
+$18,000,000
Cash Settlement Amount