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Frontpoint Partners LLC Summary: According to the complaint filed January 04, 2011, over a six-week period in December 2007 and January 2008, six healthcare related hedge funds managed by Defendant FrontPoint Partners LLC ("FrontPoint") sold more than six million shares of Human Genome Sciences, Inc. ("HGSI") common stock while their portfolio manager possessed material negative non-public information concerning the HGSI's clinical trial for the drug Albumin Interferon Alfa 2-a.

On March 2, 2011, the plaintiffs filed a First Amended Class Action Complaint, amending the named defendants and securities violations. On March 22, 2011, a motion for appointment as lead plaintiff and for approval of selection of lead counsel was filed. The defendants responded to the First Amended Complaint by filing a motion to dismiss on March 28, 2011.

The plaintiffs filed a Second Amended Complaint. The defendants responded by filing motions to dismiss on October and November 2011.

On April 25, 2012, the Court issued a Memorandum of Decision granting the defendants' motions to dismiss. The clerk was instructed to close this case.

INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION:
SIC Code: 0000
Sector: N/A
Industry: N/A

COMPANY/ISSUER NAME:	Frontpoint Partners LLC
COMPANY/ISSUER TICKER:
COMPANY WEBSITE:	www.fppartners.com

FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT IN THE DATABASE

Albert Brodzinsky, et al. v. Frontpoint Partners LLC, et al.

COURT: D. Connecticut	DOCKET NUMBER: 11-CV-00010
JUDGE NAME: Hon. Mark R. Kravitz
DATE FILED: 01/04/2011	SOURCE:
CLASS PERIOD START: 12/07/2007	CLASS PERIOD END: 01/22/2008
TYPE OF COMPLAINT: Complaint (Unamended and Unconsolidated)
PLAINTIFF FIRMS NAMED IN COMPLAINT:
Horwitz, Horwitz & Paradis 405 Lexington Ave., 61st Flr. , New York, NY, 10174 (voice) 212.986.4500, (fax) 212.986.4500, Izard Nobel LLP 29 South Main Street, Suite 215, Hartford, CT, 06107 (voice) (860) 493-6292, (fax) (860) 493-6290, Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP (Boston) 53 State Street, Boston, MA, 02109 (voice) 617.439.3939, (fax) 617.439.0134, info@shulaw.com _____________________________________________ TOTAL NUMBER OF PLAINTIFF FIRMS: 3

DOCUMENTS FOR THE FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT
Class Action Complaint
Type: Complaint		Date on the document: 01/04/2011
First Amended Class Action Complaint
Type: Complaint		Date on the document: 03/02/2011
Second Amended Class Action Complaint
Type: Complaint		Date on the document: 09/19/2011
U.S. District Court Civil Docket
Type: Docket		Date on the document: 09/19/2011
U.S. District Court Civil Docket
Type: Docket		Date on the document: 02/22/2012

OTHER DOCUMENTS

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