Overview
On December 15, 2003, the court granted final approval of a historic settlement against Lucent of $500 million in cash, stock and warrants, ranking it one of the largest securities class action settlements of all time.
Originally filed in 2000, investors who purchased common stock of Lucent Technologies, Inc. from October 26, 1999 through December 20, 2000 filed this securities fraud class action against the company and certain officers for alleged false and misleading statement.
Cohen Milstein represented The Parnassus Fund, one of the co-lead plaintiffs in this action.
Case Background
Plaintiffs’ charged Lucent with making false and misleading statements to the investing public concerning its publicly reported financial results and failing to disclose the serious problems in its optical networking business.
When the truth was disclosed, Lucent admitted that it had improperly recognized revenue of nearly $679 million in fiscal 2000.