Claim for damages brought by Allianz Global Investors GmbH and a number of other claimants, listed in the Schedule of Claimants (set out below), against (1) Deutsche Bank AG London; (2) Deutsche Bank AG; (3) Goldman Sachs International; (4) Goldman Sachs International Bank; (5) Goldman Sachs Group UK Limited; (6) Goldman Sachs Bank USA; (7) Morgan Stanley International Limited; (8) Morgan Stanley & Co. International PLC; (9) Bank of America N.A.; (10) Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Designated Activity Company; (11) Merrill Lynch International; (12) BNP Paribas S A; (13) BNP Paribas London Branch; (14) BNP Paribas Securities Services SCA; (15) Société Générale S.A.; (16) Standard Chartered PLC; (17) Standard Chartered Bank; and (18) Royal Bank of Canada in respect of alleged infringements of Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and/or Article 53 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and/or Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998.
The proceedings were transferred from the High Court to the Tribunal by consent by order of the Honourable Mr Justice Robin Knowles CBE dated 4 March 2022.
The Defendants made an application on 4 February 2022 for an order that limitation be determined as a preliminary issue. The hearing of the application has been listed for 29 September 2022, with a time estimate of one day.
