A Stanford securities law expert expects a class action filing within days of the board’s disclosure.
Nvidia shares fell more than 4% on Monday, the first trading day after the board said it would investigate CEO Jensen Huang over his relationship with Alice Huang, an executive U.S. intelligence has monitored for more than a year. Securities law firm Schall, Brown & Schwartz announced that same morning it is investigating whether the company made false or misleading statements to investors.
Robert Bartlett, a Stanford Law professor and securities law expert, expects a filing and said he would not be surprised by one on Monday. The earlier company response to The New York Times report described the relationship as not unusual and said Megaspeed looked like many other regional cloud customers. Huang has since told the board the relationship was intimate.
Securities claims here do not hinge on what the board’s investigation finds about Huang’s private life. Bartlett said the earlier statement was clearly misleading and that a CEO’s knowledge is imputed to the company. Investors would argue they paid prices built on false or incomplete disclosure.
The likely vehicle is a class action alleging fraud on the market, with damages tied to the stock’s decline. Nvidia is one of the most valuable companies in the world, so any settlement could prove very expensive. The standard path runs through long litigation and then a settlement, so operators should expect disclosure practices around executive conduct to draw fresh scrutiny.
What matters
- Schall, Brown & Schwartz said Monday it is investigating whether Nvidia misled investors.
- First-filed suits win a 60-day window to sign up large-loss investors as lead plaintiffs.
- Watch the Northern District of California docket for the first complaint and lead-plaintiff fight.
Why it matters
Watch the Northern District of California docket for the first complaint and lead-plaintiff fight.
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