KING COUNTY, WASH. v. IKB DEUTSCHE INDUSTRIEBANK AG

Nos. 09 Civ. 8387(SAS), 09 Civ. 8822(SAS).

708 F.Supp.2d 334 (2010)

KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, v. IKB DEUTSCHE INDUSTRIEBANK AG, et al., Defendants. Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff, v. IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

April 26, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne L. Box, Esq., Daniel S. Drosman, Esq., David C. Walton, Esq., Jessica T. Shinnefield, Esq., Luke O. Brooks, Esq., Nathan R. Lindell, Esq., Patrick J. Coughlin, Esq., Christina A. Royce, Esq., Darryl J. Alvarado, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA, Samuel H. Rudman, Esq., Jarrett S. Charo, Esq., David A. Rosenfeld, Esq., Robert M. Rothman, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY, Jason C. Davis, Esq., Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs.

John D. McFerrin-Clancy, Esq., Lowenstein Sandler PC, New York, NY, Thomas E. Redburn, Jr., Esq., Lowenstein Sandler PC, Roseland, NJ, for Defendants, IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG and IKB Credit Asset Management, GmbH.

James J. Coster, Esq., Aaron M. Zeisler, Esq., James J. Regan, Esq., Joshua M. Rubins, Esq., Justin E. Klein, Esq., Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants Moody's Investors Service Limited and Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

Adam N. Zurofsky, Esq., Andrea R. Butler, Esq., Brian T Markley, Esq., Dean I. Ringel, Esq., Floyd Abrams, Esq., Jason M. Hall, Esq., Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant The McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. d/b/a Standard & Poor's Rating Services.

Andrew J. Ehrlich, Esq., Martin Flumenbaum, Esq., Roberta A. Kaplan, Esq., Tobias J. Stem, Esq., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP New York, NY, for Defendant Fitch, Inc.

Thomas S. Wiswall, Esq., Phillips Lytle LLP, Rochester, NY, for Defendant Stefan Ortseifen.


OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Two institutional investors, King County, Washington and Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation ("ISL"), bring these putative class actions for common law fraud in connection with the collapse of Rhinebridge, a structured investment vehicle ("SIV"). Plaintiffs sue six corporate entities and two individuals: IKB Deutsche...

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