Chesapeake Energy Corporation ("Chesapeake" or the Company) is an American oil, petroleum and natural gas exploration and production company.

According to a press release dated February 28, 2009, on July 15, 2008, Chesapeake completed a secondary public offering of 28.75 million shares of common stock at $57.25 per share, receiving approximately $1.65 billion in gross proceeds, with net proceeds of $1.586 billion. The Complaint alleges that the Registration Statement issued in connection with the Offering was materially false and misleading because it failed to disclose numerous facts which were required to be stated therein, including: (i) that the Company's exposure to natural gas price declines had not been adequately limited by the hedging actions the Company had undertaken prior to the Offering, including its decision to increase its hedge position from 20% to 80% of its production, as a growing proportion of the hedging agreements on Chesapeake's 2009 production contained so-called "knockout" provisions that eliminated the counter-party's financial obligation once the price of natural gas fell below a certain benchmark; (ii) though the Company disclosed it had entered into hedging contracts to protect its production from falling prices, the Registration Statement failed to disclose that a significant proportion of these contracts had been made with one of the underwriters in the Offering, Lehman Brothers, though based on Lehman Brothers' rapidly declining financial condition, Lehman Brothers would be unable to fulfill its financial commitment -- rendering Chesapeake's "protection" meaningless; (iii) in the months leading up to the Offering, Chesapeake's aggressive hedging activities (and those of certain of the underwriter Defendants) had been significantly running up the price of natural gas and Chesapeake's stock price, which moves in tandem with natural gas prices; (iv) that Chesapeake's "land men," i.e., lease brokers, had been aggressively bidding up the prices Chesapeake was obligated to pay in leases and royalty agreements in the months leading up to the Offering, causing Chesapeake to pay unreasonably high prices for certain leases and royalty contracts; (v) that the Company was failing to write down impaired goodwill on the assets it was acquiring, causing its balance sheet and financial results to be artificially inflated; and (vi) that the Company's internal controls were inadequate to prevent the Company from improperly reporting its goodwill. During late 2008 and early 2009, as these omitted facts were revealed to the market, the price of Chesapeake stock declined to less than $12 per share, approximately 80% below the Offering price.

According to an article dated May 28, 2009, a judge has approved the selection of a United Food and Commercial Workers pension fund as the lead Plaintiff, and the firm Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP to serve as lead Counsel, in a putative securities class action over alleged omissions in financial information for Chesapeake. Judge Laura Taylor Swain issued an order on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York designating the United Food and Commercial Workers union Local 880 — Retail Food Employers Pension Fund as lead Plaintiff in the suit, which was initially filed by Safron Capital Corp.

On May 28, 2009, an order was filed appointing the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 880 - retail food employers pension fund as lead Plaintiff and approving lead Plaintiff's selection of Counsel. The law firm of Coughlin Stoia Gellar Rudman & Robbins LLP was appointed lead Counsel for the class.

On September 11, 2009, the Plaintiffs filed an Amended Class Action Complaint for violations of the federal securities laws against all Defendants.

On October 7, 2009, the Court appointed United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 880 - Retail Food Employers Pension Fund ("UFCW") as lead Plaintiff. On October 7, 2009, a transfer order was granted by the court sending the case from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to the Western District of Oklahoma.

On March 30, 2012, the Court issued an Order granting lead Plaintiff's Motion to Certify.

On March 29, 2013, the Court issued an Order granting the Defendants' motion for summary judgment.

On June 21, 2013, Judgment was entered under Rule 54(b) in favor of Defendants. Plaintiffs filed a Notice of Appeal of this Judgment on July 18th. On August 8, 2014, the Court of Appeals issued an Opinion affirming the District Court's granting of summary judgment in favor of Chesapeake.

A petition for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court was filed on April 10, 2015. This petition was denied on October 5.