Legal Proceedings
−Removed: Many aspects of the Company’s business
−Removed: involve substantial risks of liability.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of business, the Company may be named as defendant or co-defendant in various
−Removed: legal actions, including arbitrations, class actions and other litigation, which could create substantial exposure and periodic expenses.
−Removed: The Company may also be involved, from time to time, in other reviews, investigations and proceedings (both formal and informal) by governmental
−Removed: and self-regulatory agencies regarding the Company’s business, which may result in expenses, adverse judgments, settlements, fines,
−Removed: penalties, injunctions or other relief.
−Removed: In the past in the ordinary course of business, the Company has actively pursued legal remedies
−Removed: to enforce its intellectual property rights and to stop unauthorized use of its technology.
−Removed: In March 2024, the Company received a
−Removed: notice of petition of a filed action seeking relief related to the hiring in March 2024 of new registered representatives from the representatives’
+Added: The Company may be subject to certain legal and
+Added: other claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business.
+Added: In particular, the Company and its subsidiaries may be named in and subject
+Added: to various proceedings and claims arising primarily from the Company’s securities business activities, including lawsuits, arbitration
+Added: claims, class actions, and regulatory matters.
+Added: Some of these claims may seek substantial compensatory, punitive, or indeterminate damages.
+Added: The Company and its subsidiaries may also be subject to other reviews, investigations, and proceedings by governmental and self-regulatory
+Added: organizations regarding the Company’s business, which may result in adverse judgments, settlements, fines, penalties, injunctions,
+Added: and other relief.
+Added: Due to the inherent difficulty of predicting the outcome of litigation and other claims the Company cannot state with
+Added: certainty what the eventual outcome of potential litigation or other claims will be.
+Added: In March 2024, the Company received a notice of
+Added: petition of a filed action seeking relief related to the hiring in March 2024 of new registered representatives from the representatives’
former employer.
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The Company does not agree with the
−Removed: claim of the plaintiff and will defend itself accordingly.
−Removed: While the Company intends to defend itself vigorously from this claim, it is
−Removed: unable to predict the outcome of such legal proceeding.
+Added: plaintiff’s claims.
+Added: While the Company intends to defend itself vigorously from this claim, it is unable to predict the outcome of
+Added: such legal proceeding.
Any potential loss as a result of this legal proceeding cannot be reasonably estimated.
−Removed: As a result, the Company has not recorded a loss contingency for the aforementioned claim.
+Added: As a result, the Company
+Added: has not recorded a loss contingency for the aforementioned claim.
+Added: In the past, in the ordinary course of business,
+Added: the Company actively pursued legal remedies to enforce its intellectual property rights and to stop unauthorized use of the Company’s
+Added: Other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, the Company is not aware of any material, active or pending
+Added: legal proceedings brought against it.
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